Treatments, exercises, and health tips.
There are many different forms of treatment available for the physiotherapists at Nambucca Heads Physiotherapy and Stuarts Point Physiotherapy to use in the process of improving your wellbeing.
Electrotherapy is the use of electrical energy in the treatment of various conditions and health disorders.
It is the application of an electrical current or high frequency sound waves to the body.
Both physiotherapy practices have at their disposal ultrasound therapy, interferential therapy, TENS, Sports TENS, Laser therapy, pressure pump therapy, and EMG.
Manual therapy is a physical treatment used by the physiotherapists to treat musculoskeletal and neuromusculoskeletal conditions — spinal and peripheral joints — and is an evidence-based and clinical-based approach utilising alarge variety of skilled, specific, hands-on techniques.
The therapy is delivered with the hands as opposed to a device or machine.
Once a thorough subjective and objective assessment is performed, the physiotherapist will then choose the best techniques or advice needed for the individual patient.
Exercise therapy or prescription commonly refers to the specific plan of fitness-related activities that are designed for a specified purpose — which is developed by the Nambucca physiotherapists for you.
Due to your specific and unique needs and interests, the goal of exercise prescription should be successful integration of exercise principles and behavioral techniques that motivate you to be compliant, thus achieving your goals.
1 Piggott Street
Nambucca Heads
Nambucca Heads Practice Tel: (02) 6568 7700 - Fax (02) 6568 5853
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