Arthritis

Living with Arthritis? Physiotherapy can help! Physiotherapists play important roles in the overall management of arthritis.

Physiotherapy treatment is aimed at:

• Reducting pain
• Improving movement
• Strengthening muscle power
• Improving function & assisting with independence

Pain relief methods

• Thermal (heat treatments)
• Improving movement
• Electrical treatments (electrotherapy)
• Physical treatments – exercise, manual therapy and hydrotherapy

Other treatments

• Exercise: A balanced programme of rest and exercise, and careful attention to joint posture is essential for joint health.
• Manual therapy: Mobilisation and manipulation techniques are specific passive movements applied to joints and soft tissues to help restore full movement to a joint that is painful and restricted.
• Hydrotherapy: Hydrotherapy (pool therapy) is a very useful means of exercising arthritic joints using the buoyancy of water to assist / resist movement.
  
  Our Physio therapists can assist with advice, treatment, rehabilitation and exercise programmes. For further information contact us and/or visit Arthritis NZ