11. Physiotherapy

Physiotherapy usually has more a disease-accompanying character than a preventive one. Physiotherapy has numerous applications, especially in rehabilitation.

Classical physiotherapy focuses on postural and musculoskeletal disorders. In order to treat these, physiotherapists have a wide range of methods at their disposal, which are taught at special schools in training lasting several months or years. But physiotherapy can do even more. For example, there are exercises to promote cardiopulmonary function, and physiotherapy also has a lot to offer during pregnancy.

Physiotherapy is responsible for compensating physical deficits that are responsible for pain or illness. A too weak back musculature, for example, is not sufficiently able to support the spine. Physiotherapy can help here.

Physiotherapy is also responsible for improving incorrect postures, such as sitting at a PC for a longer period of time. Physiotherapy can also correct incorrect movement patterns, such as lifting loads.

The multitude of therapies offered by physiotherapy serves, among other things, to stretch and build up the muscles and the mobility of the joints in particular and thus also of the entire musculoskeletal system. In addition, physiotherapy can also evoke positive improvements in the entire cardiovascular system.