Physiotherapy Clinic Singapore Sg

What exactly is physiotherapy?

Physiotherapy is defined as treating disease, injury, or deformity through physical methods like massage, joint manipulation, and other techniques outside of drugs or surgery. A physiotherapist is a professional who helps individuals with injury, sickness, or disabilities by offering education and training, as well manual therapy.

One key element of physiotherapy is that it takes a holistic approach to wellbeing and treatment, focusing on the whole person, including general lifestyle and health.

Physiotherapy's goal is to assist individuals in remaining independent and contributing as active citizens of society.

Common Physiotherapy Treatments

Many physiotherapy methods are performed by hand and aim to move, mobilise, or massage tissues. physically helps relieve pain and stiffness, improve blood circulation, and promote movement and relaxation. Some examples of such techniques are:

• Massage to relax the muscles

















• Stretching and myofascial releases are two examples of soft tissue techniques.

















• Joint mobilization and manipulation, which use the gliding of the joint to improve motion, function, and control































• Instrument mobilization for Physiotherapy (PIM), uses handcrafted tools

















• Minimal energy techniques (METs) which uses the muscle's own energy to relax the muscles through autogenic or reciprocal inhibition and lengthening the muscle

















• Osteopathy and acupuncture are also available.