Kinesitherapy is a term that means treatment with movement. It is one of the most comprehensive physiotherapy applications involving almost the entire body. It is used in the treatment of many ailments such as spinal pain, herniated disc, spinal curvature. In the kinesitherapy treatment method, the musculoskeletal ligaments of the person are examined first and as a result of this examination, personalized treatment programs are planned. Planning a personalized treatment program also ensures that the person gets high efficiency from this treatment.
What is kinesitherapy?
Kinesitherapy is a word that is formed by combining the concepts of kinesis (movement) and therapy (treatment). It means treatment with movement. It is a treatment method used in musculoskeletal disorders. Muscle tracking is combined with the principles used in Chinese medicine in order to evaluate the working of energy and the body together. Therefore, kinesitherapy is also known as the science of energy balancing.
Kinesitherapy is a treatment method that deals with more fundamental causes of musculoskeletal diseases. The kinesitherapy method, which can be applied to adults and children, can produce very effective results on systems such as joints, bones, muscles and nervous system.
What are the benefits of kinesitherapy?
Although the area of interest of kinesitherapy is musculoskeletal disorders, it is seen that it is also used in areas such as cardiovascular diseases, kidney diseases, respiratory system diseases. Kinesitherapy has many benefits for the person and the health of the person. Kinesitherapy benefits can be listed as follows:
- It reduces stress.
- It helps to improve the learning of both children and adults.
- Increases sports performance.
- It enables the person to communicate more healthily both with himself and with the people around him.
- If the person has an allergy, it helps to determine the factors that trigger this allergy.
- It makes the person fit.
- It facilitates the healing of some diseases.
- It can stop the progression of some diseases.
How is kinesitherapy done?
Kinesitherapy is known as a treatment method performed by physical therapists individually with patients. Special rehabilitation equipment is used in individual exercises. Kinesitherapy session varies from person to person. In other words, whatever the person’s current needs are, the kinesitherapy treatment method is applied in the direction of the session. During the kinesitherapy session, the person is dressed. Depending on the condition of the person, the session can be performed sitting, lying or standing.
For the kinesitherapy treatment method, the doctor first learns the patient’s history of the disease and their expectations from this treatment. He then does a physical examination. It can apply light pressure to measure the reaction of the person’s muscles. It puts the limbs of the person in different positions. This helps in identifying imbalances in the person’s body. If there is any imbalance in the body, it applies some massage techniques to ensure balance.
What is the kinesitherapy method?
Kinesitherapy method is an application that aims to get high efficiency by working one-on-one with physical therapists and preparing personalized programs by physical therapists. Many techniques are used in this treatment method. The physical therapist may also ask the person to use more than one technique together, which he or she may want to use only one of these techniques. Some of the kinesitherapy techniques are:
- Exercise: It is one of the basic treatment methods of kinesitherapy. It is used in almost all treatments. The purpose of this technique is to increase the range of motion and muscle strength of the joints.
- Group Exercises: It is an exercise program that includes people in the same/similar age group and with the same diseases. The number of people varies between 5-10 people. In this technique, more motivation is at the forefront.
- Water Exercises: It is a technique applied mostly for people with limited range of motion and pain. It is carried out in water. It accelerates the healing process of the person as it is easier to move in the water and the load on the joints is reduced.
- Orthopedic Manual Therapy: It is a technique applied to treat the pain and mobility of people with musculoskeletal diseases.
- Craniosacral Therapy: It is a technique that examines and treats disorders between a person’s skull and coccyx. Disorders such as migraine, spinal curvature and herniated disc are treated with this technique.
- Waist School Training: It is a technique applied to people who have discomfort in the lumbar region. This technique is applied in treatment centers called back school.
- Foot Sole Reflex Massage: The blood vessels on the soles of the feet directly affect some systems in the body. The aim of this technique is to stimulate and heal the affected area by performing reflex massages on these blood vessels on the sole of the foot.
- Connective Tissue Massage: This technique is also a reflex therapy method, like foot sole reflex massage. It is a technique that is applied in the form of finger pulling on the skin over certain points in the areas suitable for the discomfort in the body.
Which diseases is kinesitherapy good for?
Kinesitherapy method is used in the treatment of many diseases. It has been proven that it facilitates the healing of some diseases and can stop the progression of some diseases. Diseases for which kinesitherapy treatment method is applied are as follows:
- spine pains
- Shoulder pain
- minor injuries
- joint diseases
- prosthetic applications
- Calcification in the neck and waist areas
- Joint imbalances due to dislocations
- chronic back pain
- Curvature of the spine (scoliosis)
- frozen shoulder problem
- Inflammatory rheumatism (rheumatoid arthritis)
- Spinal rheumatism (ankylosing spondylitis)
- After ligament plastic and knee cap surgeries