In Winters prefer Physiotherapy over painkillers
Winters are more favorable for muscular and joint
pains, arthritis pains tends to flair in this season. People prefer taking painkillers over other preventive measures like physiotherapy and natural means.
Main reason for popping medicines rather than going for
the physiotherapy is medications are readily available and often seem to be the
easiest option to treat pain.
Personally i encourage
you to seek physiotherapy as a way to heal your pain, not just mask it with the
painkillers with side effects.
In painkillers commonly used are Opioids they mostly reduce pain stimuli from
reaching the brain. You feel better because the Opioids class of drug is
masking the pain that you feel. In actual that pain is not eliminated. It is
just hidden for the short span that the medication helps your brain block it.
Adding to this, Opioids have many side effects that natural
healing through physiotherapy does not. Painkillers can cause breathing (chest) and
heart problems, tolerance, physical dependence, drowsiness, and even accidental
overdose and death. Opioids painkillers are often highly addictive and misused
as substance abuse. The high doses of Opioids are not good for chronic
non-cancer pain, and recommends treatment through physiotherapy instead.
Physiotherapy helps in treatments by providing optimum healing
not just masking of pain and temporary relief. Unlike Opioids, physiotherapy is
a great way to treat pain by providing conditions for speedy healing.
As
clinicians, physiotherapists engage in an examination process that includes:
1. Taking the patient/client history,
2. Conducting a systems review, and
3. Performing tests and measures to identify potential and
existing problems.
4. To establish diagnoses, prognoses, and plans of care,
physiotherapists perform evaluations, synthesizing the examination data and
determining whether the problems to be addressed are within the scope of
physiotherapy.
5. Based on their judgments about diagnoses and prognoses and
based on patient, physiotherapists provide interventions (the interactions and
procedures used in managing and instructing patients, conduct re-examinations, modify
interventions as necessary to achieve required goals and expected outcomes, and
develop and implement discharge plans for their patients.
Physiotherapists work as a team involving family
members, other medical professionals, and patients to find the plan of care
that best fits their needs.
Physiotherapy improves strength, mobility and range of
motion so that patients are able to get back to doing what they love to do pain
free.
A physiotherapist can help you get back into your normal
life where you can play with your children and grand children on holidays can
enjoy morning walks with your better half after your retirement.
Arthritis exercises are best known to reduce or stop arthritis pain.
Arthritis exercises are best known to reduce or stop arthritis pain.
This winter, physiotherapists encourage you to get out,
get proactive, starts your physiotherapy and avoid your painkiller medication
to enjoy the season at its best.
