Everything You Should Know About Physiotherapy, Massage Therapy And Acupuncture

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Everything You Should Know About Physiotherapy,
Massage Therapy And Acupuncture
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Synopsis

1. The Fight Against Dementia How Physiotherapy
   Can Help
2. How Physiotherapy Can Help You as You Get Older
3. How Massage Therapy Will Change Your Life
4. Massage Therapy See how it can benefit your
   Mental Health
5. The Benefits of Acupuncture and How It Can Change
   Your Life

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The Fight Against Dementia How Physiotherapy
Can Help

• A neurological physiotherapist is the best match
  for someone diagnosed with dementia. They
  encourage independence through fall prevention
  exercises and instruct careers on home
  improvements that will also ensure safety. This
  helps with the smallest of tasks things such as
  walking, getting out of bed climbing stairs. The
  increase of independence will improve the
  patients mood as their morale goes up as their
  fear of injury and embarrassment goes down. This
  also takes some of the pressure off of family,
  friends and careers. If sufferers know they are
  upsetting the people around them it can make them
  feel worse. This is why independence is so
  important and why it must be kept for as long as
  possible.
• Therapists work with the patient to assess
  factors that restrict their physical movement and
  the tasks they are not able to perform daily.
  They will also work with the patients career to
  ensure that they will be able to keep their
  independence as long as physically possible. This
  will also boost the sufferers self-esteem and
  mood as they do not feel so helpless. It provides
  a better quality of life for the patient as well
  as everyone around them. Exercise is a huge
  factor in this. It benefits their mood which can
  mean that less medication is needed and the
  person with dementia can enjoy more social
  interaction. Together all of this has a positive
  impact on all symptoms of dementia or early
  Alzheimers disease.

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How Physiotherapy Can Help You as You Get Older

• It is only natural that our body starts to tire
  and slow down as we age. This can be anything
  from decreasing bone density to wasted muscle
  mass. This makes our muscles and bones
  considerably weaker and frail, limiting and
  restricting movement as well as lifestyle and
  opportunity. Older people are also at a higher
  risk for other diseases such as strokes and high
  blood pressure however, physiotherapy can help
  with these problems.
• Physiotherapists will stress the importance of
  good exercise to older people so that they may
  reap in the benefits. Studies undertaken by
  multiple health experts have shown that adults
  who partake in regular exercise show improved
  balance, motor control and even memory. Plus, all
  this exercise helps to dramatically reduce the
  risk of illness that the older generation are
  susceptible to. Years of evidence and research
  performed by multiple medical professionals
  proves that physiotherapy is amazingly effective
  at preventing and reducing joint problems, high
  blood pressure issues, risk of falls and even
  obesity. This can even have a very positive
  effect on mental health and emotions with most
  older patients reporting that they feel happier
  and healthier after regular exercise and therapy
  sessions.

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How Massage Therapy Will Change Your Life

• There are many benefits to massage therapy. It is
  an amazing continuous solution to lower back
  pain. If you suffer from scoliosis or any other
  spinal injury that causes unrelenting back ache,
  massage therapists will ease the tension or knots
  within the muscle. This will relax the body and
  almost eradicate the pain for a length of time.
  While the deep intensity of the massage may be
  painful during and briefly after, it will lessen
  the pain in the long term. To get rid of the pain
  permanently you should see a physiotherapist as
  well.
• Another great benefit to massage therapy is that
  it reduces bone based diseases such as arthritis,
  fibromyalgia, joint pain and bursitis. 35 percent
  of massage therapy clients and patients go to
  therapists about problems such as those as
  massages have been found to be effective to relax
  muscles. It is reported that most symptoms
  disappear or lesson after only a month.
• It helps to stabilise hormones and regulate
  diabetes. Massage therapy is being used to reduce
  the inflammatory symptoms in the muscles that
  present themselves with diabetes. Even other
  therapies like yoga and hydrotherapy can help
  which do not run the risk of side effects like
  medication does.

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Massage Therapy See how it can benefit your
Mental Health

• Therapists will apply several techniques, but the
  most common one the Emotional Freedom Technique
  (EFT). This operates under the belief that the
  body has energy channels if these channels are
  blocked then it is believed that it can cause
  emotional illness within in the mind. EFT can
  help with fears and phobias, anxiety, depression,
  insomnia, trauma and even panic attacks. Using a
  technique called tapping, EFT eases the blocked
  energy channel by simulating the meridian or
  tension spots. (Tapping uses the fingertips to
  neutralise emotional energy blocks). Therapists
  will often reassure the patient orally to further
  the calming process. This combination is said to
  eliminate the tense energy channels and leave the
  patient feeling both emotionally and physically
  refreshed. Thousands of people globally have
  already benefitted from this practice.
• A technique called Kinesiology, similar to EFT,
  is proven to help with self-confidence and
  self-motivation through a series of treatments
  such as muscle testing/monitoring. Kinesiologists
  will manipulate and place the patients limbs in
  a contracted position and apply pressure to find
  stress points on the body. They will then work
  the knots out to relax the patient both mentally
  and physically.

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The Benefits of Acupuncture and How It Can Change
Your Life

• Acupuncture can help with a vast majority of
  health risks. One huge benefit to the practice is
  that it helps to relieve long term chronic pain.
  The needles release the tension that builds
  underneath the surface of the body and can help
  relax any strained muscles.
• It also helps treat insomnia again, acupuncture
  helps to relax the mind as well as the body (this
  is where it differs from Western medicine) and
  helps insomnia suffers to be calm, ergo helping
  them to sleep at night.
• Another benefit to acupuncture is that in some
  cases it can also help patients to lose weight,
  according to sources such as the British
  Acupuncture Council. While someone will not lose
  weight with acupuncture alone, studies published
  in Medical Acupuncture found that ear acupuncture
  coupled with 15 minutes worth of exercise and a
  2000 calorie a day diet does help to reduce
  weight.

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The Benefits of Acupuncture and How It Can Change
Your Life

• Acupuncture aids pregnancy and postpartum health.
  Due to the effects of the needles, pregnant woman
  who undergo acupuncture have reported reduced
  stress levels their hormones become less
  unbalanced and the pain and the anxiety during
  birth is less severe.
• The risk of cognitive based diseases goes down.
  Studies have demonstrated that acupuncture
  stimulates neural responses in the brain (areas
  like the thalamus) that can be targeted by
  degenerative illnesses such as Parkinsons
  disease. In a study conducted by the department
  of Neurology at the University of Maryland, it
  was discovered that after numerous acupuncture
  sessions, 85 of Parkinsons patients symptoms
  improved, including their depression, sleeping
  patterns and pain. What is even more encouraging
  is that no adverse side effects were reported.

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