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What is meant by physiotherapy?

Physiotherapy provides services to improve, maintain, or restore motor function and skills throughout the lifespan. Physiotherapy also intervenes when functional abilities and motor skills are impaired by old age or illness, the consequences of an accident, or poor posture.

Goals of physiotherapy

• Sedate and/or eliminate chronic or acute pain in cases of:
• Rheumatic and inflammatory processes
• Chronic pain due to load abnormalities
• Contractures
• Degenerative signs
• Injuries due to infortions (private, occupational or sports)
• Postoperative pain
• Acute pain from overload
• Psychosomatic pain

What is meant by osteopathy?

Osteopathy is a manual therapy (founded in 1892 by Dr. Andrew Taylor Still) complementary to classical medicine. This natural and gentle method treats various conditions without using drugs, making use of a causal rather than symptomatic approach. In fact, osteopathy studies the individual as a whole, and is not satisfied with resolving the symptom, but goes in search of the cause of any suffering that may also find its location in another body area than the area of pain.

Objectives of osteopathic therapy:

This therapy deals primarily with structural and mechanical problems of the musculoskeletal type with which, however, alterations in the function of the visceral organs and the cranio-sacral system may be associated. Osteopathy works on people of all ages, from newborns to the elderly to pregnant and post-pregnant women.

What is meant by TCM acupuncture?

Acupuncture is an ancient therapeutic methodology that falls under Traditional Chinese Medicine (often abbreviated as TCM). TCM is a medical system, developed in the East 2500 years ago and recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO).