"Physical therapy is a type of treatment you may need when health problems make it hard to move around and do everyday tasks. It helps you move better and may relieve pain."(Web MD, P1) Physical Therapy involves doing doing different exercises to improve your physical function and fitness level.The over all goal/purpose of doing Physical Therapy is to help make your every day exercises easier for your body to handle.
A Physical Therapists' job is to help reduce pain and swelling for an individual and make a proper treatment plan for them. That means selecting the proper exercises for that person to do so that they can increase there flexibility, and strength. "Physical therapy almost always includes exercise. It can include stretching, care exercises, weight lifting, and walking." (Web MD, P6) People will end up going to physical therapy for many different reasons that range from huge sports injuries to minor arthritis pain. There are hundreds of different exercises designed to help a very wide variety of injures or pains.
"What Is Physical Therapy?" WebMD. WebMD, 03 May 0000. Web. 09 Sept. 2012. <http://www.webmd.com/pain-management/tc/physical-therapy-topic-overview>.
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