Psychotherapy to enhance health and wellbeing

Physiotherapy is a practice that mainly focuses on enhancing physical health, especially after serious injury or as part of rehabilitation. It is a process and physiotherapists do embrace the mind, body and spirit holistic approach because professionals understand that to empower those in need, it’s important to understand that stress, trauma, self-worth, confidence and understanding (linked to mental and spiritual factors) can affect movement or inflammation in the body (linked to the physical factors).

This process is definitely an empowering one that allows participants to reconnect with self on a deep, conscious level. It can also be very humbling because as mobile adults, it’s easier to take movement for granted and just be physical automatically but being debilitated often means that the individual affected needs to learn those motor skills again. For example, walking, kicking, jumping, running as well as eye to hand co-ordination.

There are many health conditions that cause such trauma to the mind and body. Physiotherapy is essential to rehabilitation and recovery, these include arthritis, multiple sclerosis, strokes, fractures, sport injuries, chronic pain in back, neck or shoulder.

In terms of how physiotherapy can be used to enhance health and wellbeing, it can also be used to maintain balanced homeostasis to strengthen the body (and mind). When a person thinks good about self, that becomes a positive feeling for the mind which then flows through and relaxes the body to be more able.

What does Physiotherapy involve? To understand how physiotherapy can improve mobility, it’s important to undergo an assessment with a qualified and experienced professional physiotherapist who can then offer suggestions as to how to enhance or maintain own health and wellbeing. A physical programme will be suggested to develop the affected areas to rebuild the healing and co-ordination needed.