Physical Therapy

Physical therapy is a profession well established and regulated whose aim is to offer certain services to the individuals, as well as to populations in order to help them develop, restore or maintain a maximum ability in their movement during a lifetime. Physical therapy also deals with those circumstances and situations in which function and movement are threatened by the aging process, injuries, environmental factors or disease because appropriate functional movement is crucial to health.

Physical therapy has as objectives to identify and ensure a maximum of quality of human life and movement potential. The areas within which physical therapy operates, are prevention, promotion, treatment or intervention, habilitation and rehabilitation. The physical therapy processes involve a lot of elements inter-reacting with each other, such as: therapists, patients, patients' families, other health workers/professionals, social workers and care givers, and communities. All these human elements have one goal in mind and that is the physical, psychological, emotional and social health and well being of the affected people.

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