Manual physical therapy is one of the oldest treatments in the modern treatment. It is a form of physical therapy intervention provided with hands to place pressure on a muscle tissue, and joints in an intend to decrease pain created by muscle spasm, muscle tension or joint dysfunction. Evidence shows that manipulation and exercise are PT 's most useful tools. Since Hippocrates (Father of Medicine), 460-355 B.C., and his wrote "One setting joints by leverage," the manual therapy have changed and developed to be what it is today. Hippocrates was the first in introducing the idea of manual manipulation therapy to relieve pain by using gravity for the treatment of scoliosis. With that said, we can understand that manual therapy has had something …show more content…
The last effect is known as the psychological effect; this one develops patients confident in achieving positive outcome due to the manual therapy. The contact and specifics manual touch in injured tissues activates particular systems that control pain which help to confirm the how much pain patient’s experience. The manual therapy it is for everyone and, it is important to know that any patient with pain or a small joint range of motion can receive manual therapy. There are not contraindications, but some precautions need to follow; some of this precaution include the presence of disease, hemarthrosis, muscle holding, hypermobile joint, and joint replacement that has not actively moved yet.
Also, any joint can be manipulated or mobilized; there are not limitations. One of the most known is the spine manual therapy, but joints like shoulder, elbow, wrist/hand, sacroiliac joint, hip, knee, and toes also can be treated. Manual therapy also incorporates a broad variety of muscle energy techniques and specified exercises that decrease muscle spasm, and subsequently increase joint mobility.
There exist different techniques with the manual therapy. One of the most popular is the soft tissue technique, which is use when a muscle, tendon or ligaments are
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This research is a significant step in describing a combined intervention, which can be studied within the context of future clinical trials to determine efficacy related to pain, function, balance, and falls compared to other physical therapy or medical approaches.
Manual physical therapy also offers pain relief for acute and chronic back pain.
Some limitation like joints that lack adequate mobility can cause trouble, pain, and change in function, posture, and movement. Manual physical therapy helps to repair mobility to stiff joints and decreasing muscle tension to direct the patient to more normal movement without pain. Also, contributes back pain release for patients with chronic back pain including joint problems, and severe back pain from soft tissue injuries. Additionally, to this procedure, the physical therapist also provides methods that include the use of high velocity and low amplitude. The purpose of this system is to reestablish the gliding motion of joints, letting them open and close efficiently. This technique is more dynamic than joint mobilizations and muscle energy techniques discussed previously. During the