Kinesitherapy is often associated with locomotor system diseases and trauma recovery, but it has certain benefits after almost any kind of surgical intervention (except when specifically indicated as contraindicated). Those benefits are extremely comprehensive and can greatly shorten the recovery period, as well as reduce the risk of complications.
Healing through movement: what is kinesitherapy?
The name derives from the ancient Greek words for 'movement' and 'treatment.' Kinesitherapy is an independent medical discipline based on the experience and achievements of almost all other medical fields. This includes the theory and methodology of physical education and rehabilitation. Kinesitherapy is defined as a multimodal type of treatment combining a psychological and pedagogical process that runs bilaterally between the patient and the therapist.
Depending on the surgical intervention, rehabilitation may involve the movement of various muscle groups, massaging the body, hands, feet, massaging the surgical sutures, electro- and light therapy, ultrasound therapy, water gymnastics, etc.
It is important that you consult your follow-up doctor before implementing a program.
In a purely physical aspect, different kinesitherapeutic interventions can help stimulate blood circulation, which improves cell nutrition and speeds up the healing process, strengthens the muscles and ligaments and stimulates your whole body to return to its normal functioning.
How and when you can benefit from kinesitherapy in the post-operative healing process
Kinesitherapy can help your social and psychological recovery after surgery, especially after longer hospital stay.
Patients with the following conditions can benefit using kinesitherapy:
• myocardial infarction
• ischemic or haemorrhagic stroke
• gynecological operations
• abdominal operations
• operations of the locomotor system
• cardiac surgery
• after amputations
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