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Physiotherapy for Osteoarthritis near you


Introduction

  • OA defined as a degenerative, non-inflammatory joint disease characterized by destruction of articular cartilage and formation of new bone at the joint surface and margins.
  • It is a condition that affects the joints, causing pain and stiffness. Knee is the one of the most commonly affected joints
  • Osteoarthritis knee is called “wear-and-tear” arthritis. It typically comes with aging and results from joints being used over time.
  • OA is most common in elderly people and it can be divided into two types.
Physiotherapy for Arthritis in Coimbatore

Primary osteoarthritis 

               Primary knee OA is the result of articular cartilage degeneration without any known reason. This is typically thought of as degeneration due to age as well as wear and tear.

Secondary osteoarthritis

                 Secondary knee OA is the result of articular cartilage degeneration due to an abnormal concentration of force across injury in the knee and subsequent tissue loading, osteoarthritis is caused by easy leakage of proteoglycans through the injury surface by high fluid outflow.

Age group affected

  • OA is typically progressive disease that may eventually leads to disability .The rate of progression also varies for each individual
  • OA leads to pain and loss of function and it is more common in elderly individual
  • It is most common disease of joints world .It is mainly affects people over the age of 45
  • Women are more commonly affected than men
  • Osteoarthritis is most frequent joint disease with prevalence of 22% to 39% in India.
  • Nearly 45% of women over the age of 65 years have symptoms
  • Prevalence will continue to increase as life expectancy and obesity rises

     

    Signs and symptoms of osteoarthritis include:

    • Affected joints might hurt during walking. Pain is poorly localized and is dull aching in nature
    • Knee pain that is gradual in on set and worse with activity
    • Patients complaints of early morning stiffness
    • Minimal tenderness
    • Movement of knee are restricted
    • Mild swelling in the knee joints
    • Bony spurs
    • Crepitus can be elicited
    • Knee arthritis can make it hard to do many everyday activities such as walking or climbing stairs
Physiotherapy for Arthritis in Coimbatore

How Physiotherapy by Neo Physio helps

  • Physiotherapy by Neo Physio experts helps to reduce pain, swelling and stiffness of the knee joints
  • Physiotherapy will help to improve the knee joint movement and it will make it easier for you to walk, bend, kneel, squat and sit.
  • During the starting stage pain can be controlled by cold therapy, Heat therapy, and Hydro therapy
  • Neo Physio, physiotherapy for osteoarthritis in Coimbatore only treats you better at your home at your comfort.
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LOWER BACK PAIN-THE HAPPINESS KILLER..

In today’s fast paced lifestyle, “Sitting has become the new smoking”. Sitting for 8-9 hrs a day comes with its own set of risks. In addition to this, if your job involves lifting, pulling or twisting the spine – all this may contribute to low back pain. contribute to low back pain. This happens when u sit all day.

Low back pain today has become a leading cause of distress and loss of days from work. It has become a frequent health problem in the general population especially affecting the physically inactive, sedentary desk job workers. 8-9 hrs of desk work can also result in poor posture that puts additional stress to the back and spinal structures.

The causes can be varying from-:

Improper lifting

  • Poor posture
  • Mechanical causes
  • Ridiculer causes
  • Degenerative disorders
  • Lack of regular exercise
  • Fracture
  • Ruptured disc or arthritis

 

Everything and anything about lumbar pain is important and is not able to explain in few words. But this is biggest growing concern in world, starting from children, women, and adults to old age groups. 

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Symptoms of Back pain

Dull/achy pain

  • Sciatica-burning /stinging pain moves from low back to back of thigh, also to lower legs /feet.
  • Muscle spasms and tightness
  • Pain worsens or increases after prolonged sitting or standing.
  • Difficulty standing up straight
  • Walking or going from standing to sitting

WHEN YOU SHOULD SEEK HELP OF PHYSIOTHERAPIST?

Always take help when symptoms start, but don’t be too late to ask help. The cause of lower back pain can be from simple sprain to various debilitating conditions like arthritis, tumors etc.

The therapy for each individual is different according to their cause of low back pain

At initial stages it can be simply treated with weight loss, posture correction and distress the muscles through various   modalities available. Physiotherapy for lower back pain can be treated at your home at your comfort.

HOW NEO PHYSIO CAN HELP YOU?

Our experts will assess your symptoms and signs and will give you the best and suitable treatment  for the root cause of your lower back pain. Physiotherapy in Coimbatore for lower back pain can be treated at your home at your comfort.

Our range of the interventions like stretching, strengthening, aerobic conditioning, postural assessment, ergonomic interventions will be done to assess the condition and provide necessary care for the PAIN FREE DAILY ACTIVITIES.

Low Back exercises

1.Tummy tucks exercises for back pain.
2.Trunk rotation.
3.Bridging exercise.
4.Cobra stretch exercise

Written By VIDHYA RAJ. G.R (Physiotherapist)

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Ergonomics, in easy words it means, the study of work and ways to make jobs/tasks in a better way. It is the only way to make your work easier and the aim is simply to feel better and work smarter. This is not a buzz word, but an effective way to reduce the company’s worker compensation, health care costs, improve productivity and product quality. It not only good for your business but also great for people. 

Workplace Ergonomics benefits 

  • Reduce cost
  • Improvement of productivity 
  • Quality improvement
  • Employee Engagement 
  • Better safety culture
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Reduce cost 

Treat you better than treat your injury.

Improvement of productivity

For better productivity, allowing good posture, less exertion, fewer motions and better heights and more efficient work station play a vital role.

Quality improvement

Frustrated and fatigued workers can’t do their best work. Physically taxing work cause fatigue workers to work less not like they were trained.

Employee Engagement 

When we treat our workers better and notice when putting forth their best effort to ensure their health and safety. No fatigue and no discomfort during their workday can increase turnover, increase absenteeism, improve morale and increase employee involvement. Physiotherapy by Neo Physio helps to improve your employee engagement.

Better safety culture human

Ergonomics shows the company’s commitment to safety and health as a core value.

Healthy employees are your most valuable asset, creating and fostering the safety and health culture at your company lead to better human performance for your organization.

If an increase in revenue, decrease in cost and building workplace which employees love is a priority for your business. Then let NEO PHYSIO build your next dream come true.  

Written By Dr Silpa

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We are looking for that person, one has a strong passion to treat people with all his physiotherapy techniques and knowledge.

The physiotherapist should have good interpersonal skill, tolerance, patience and talent to maintain good rapport with patients.

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Introduction

  • Parkinson’s Disease is  a progressive  disorder  of  the  central nervous system along with symptoms of motor and non motor
  • The affected motor symptoms are rigidity, brady kinesia, tremor and postural
  • The non motor symptoms are loss of sense of smell, constipation, rapid eye movements,   sleep   disorders,   mood   disorders,   orthostatic hypertension are in early stages of Parkinson’s Disease.
  • The Parkinson’s Disease is 1st described by James Parkinson in 1817 he named the condition as ‘shaking palsy’.
  • The term parkinsonism is used to describe a group of disorders with primary disturbance in the dopamine system of basal

Incidence

  • Annual incidence – 20 persons affected in 100000
  • Sex incidence – male affected more then female
  • Age of onset – the disease affects in above 50

Aetiology

The Parkinson’s Disease divided into

  • Primary Parkinson’s Disease
  • Secondary Parkinson’s Disease
  • The causes of primary Parkinson’s Disease is unknown. Its come from idiopathic More then 70% of cases will affected by the primary Parkinson’s Disease.
  • Secondary Parkinson’s Disease will be occurred by various causes includes virus, toxin, drugs.
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Clinical features

  • The tremor will be present in the early 1stits started from hands then its spread into all the four limbs.
  • Rigidity
  • Cogwheel rigidity Lead pipe rigidity
  • The patient thumb will move forward and backwards during rest time its disappear during
  • Brady kinesia – slowness of movement
  • Akinesia – loss of spontaneous
  • The gait becomes shuffling and festinant
  • Kyphosis with head leans forward
  • Stooped posture
  • Mainly the flexor muscles are shortened
  • Mask like face, the facial expressions are loss
  • Hand writing reduces in size
  • Dysarthria (slurred speech)
  • Dysphagia (swallowing difficulties)
  • Sialorrhea (excessive increase of saliva)
  • Eye movements may be affected
  • Depression occurs about 50% of cases
  • anxity

Investigation

The diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease in early stage is difficult

  1. SPECT(Single photon emission tomography)
  2. PET(positron emission tomography) it should be conform the disease
  3. Hoehn-yahn classification of disability scale
  4. Unified Parkinson’s Disease rating scale

Special test

  • Romberg test
  • Multi directional reach test these test for asses the static balance.

Management

Medical management

  1. Levadopa,carbidopa
  2. Dopamine agonist
  3. Monoamine oxidase B inhibitors
  4. Anti cholinergics
  5. Amantidine
  6. Deep brain stimulation

Physical Therapy management by Neo Physio

  • Relaxation exercise- relaxation of excessive tension of muscle
  • Flexibility exercises – increasing range of motion
  • Mobility exercise- to improve functional activity
  • Balance exercise
  • Resistance exercise – to strengthening the muscle
  • Co ordination exercise
  • Gait training
  • Breathing exercise
  • Aerobic exercise
  • Home exercises
  • Physiotherapy for parkinson’s in Coimbatore can be treated at home at your comfort by Neo Physio

Nutritional Management

The parkinson’s disease affected patients are generally advice to follow a high calories low protein diet.

Written By - Niranjan Eganthar PT

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