BLOG: Five key reasons for choosing physiotherapy

Booking your first physiotherapy appointment can be little daunting. However it doesn’t need to be when you understand the benefits that physiotherapy can support you with.

In most cases, physiotherapy can help with problems affecting the bones, joints and soft tissue, the brain, the nervous system, the heart and circulatory system.

Research suggests physiotherapy can significantly improve rehabilitation recovery and prevent further injury.

So here are five key reasons for choosing physiotherapy.


Manage chronic pain


Physiotherapy can help support chronic pain. Issues like osteoarthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia are just a few conditions that physiotherapy can help with.


Physiotherapy can help you recover from surgery


After surgery, joints can be stiff, scar tissue can build up and muscle wastage will occur.

Therefore physiotherapy is vitally important to help recovery and get the process of recovery moving safely and efficiently to reduce your overall time of injury.

Physiotherapy will support you with day-to-day tasks and help you get back on your feet as quick as possible.


A physiotherapists examines a woman's knee with his hands

Physiotherapy can help you recover from surgery


Avoid drugs and medication


Most medication and pain relief drugs are provided to reduce the pain. However, this does not cure the source of the problem. Physiotherapy can delve deeper and investigate the issues surrounding the pain that you are receiving and help correct the underlying problems.

As a result, this will reduce the need to mask the pain with medication and drugs.


Support women’s health


Specific health issues, like pregnancy postpartum, pelvic pain and caesarean section can all be aided by physiotherapy to help regain function, regain muscle control and reduce pain.

Return to activities you enjoy

Improve day to day living and return to the activities you enjoy.

Physiotherapy at Optimum can help you return to the things you enjoy and make day to day life easier.

A detailed physiotherapy assessment will analyse to strengths weakness and areas to improve. We will analyse your movements and show you exercises and drills to help you move freely and return to the sports you enjoy.

Read more: Find out more about Optimum Derby’s physiotherapy services

Read more: What is the difference between sports therapy and physiotherapy?

Tom Heeley