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The Importance of Physical Therapy for Seniors

 Remember the summer holidays you spent at your grandparent's house? The way they pampered and played with you. Playing hide and seek with you, farming, plucking fruits, teaching chores, narrating stories, making crafts, and whatnot. They would have done everything with you and been your partner in crime. Your parents would have also filled you with such memories. Wonderful memories, right?

 

But time waits for none. As you age, they will also be aging simultaneously. Though they never tell it, we could see it evidently through their declining physical health. You would see them spending extra time in bed, showing signs of discomfort, being tired, and slow walking as days pass by.

 

As a person grows old it is normal for him/her to feel tired and seek assistance or treatment. At those times, you might be worried about your loved one's plight. Here is a blog to give you guidance in handling such situations.

 

By now most of you would be wondering if there is any solution to overcome these issues. Yes, it can be. With exercise and therapy, these ailments can be managed.

 

One of the most common problems these people face is falling. Due to the decline of strength and balance, and other physical conditions seniors fall often. Falls in seniors can cause serious injuries. Medicines can also cause people to fall. However, with proper therapy and exercise, these problems can be faced without any hassles.

 

Now you might be wondering what we mean exactly by saying therapy and exercises. You can contact and appoint a physiotherapist for your loved ones. Physiotherapists will give instructions and guidance to the elderly to carry out their activities without being chained by the clutches of aging.

 

Physical therapy also known as physiotherapy helps people to get over many ailments with the help of exercise. Physiotherapists help in developing declining strength and balance and improve physical conditions. It mainly focuses on improving the patient's mobility, function, and well-being and managing pain. Physiotherapists can help you increase freedom of movement and mobility, reduce pain, stay active, and prevent injury. They work in the healthcare sector. Every hospital will have a separate physiotherapy wing where they will help the patient recover following surgery or treatment. The physiotherapists are trained to help the patient to get over their physical morbidities.

 

If you had noticed a huge portion of expenses each month of the elderly will be spent on ointments and medicines to relieve knee pain. Physiotherapists can help here as well. They can provide exercises for knee joint pain that will relieve the pain. On the following day, they can even find permanent relief from the pain.

 

Physiotherapists also provide cardiovascular exercises. Through cardiovascular exercises, physiotherapist aims at preventing, rehabilitating, and recovering diseases and injuries related to the heart and lungs. They also play a crucial role in cardiac rehabilitation programs.

 

The above-mentioned are some of the scenarios where a physiotherapist can help you. However, a physiotherapist’s services or the exercises they provide cannot be confined to a single blog. There are innumerable services provided by physiotherapists. Physiotherapy for lower back pain or physiotherapy for arthritis or anything can be given therapy through physiotherapy.  Physiotherapy can always be helpful for your elderly to get back on their feet without any hassles. Physical therapy can help your loved ones to recover after an illness as well as reduce the physical difficulties faced due to old age.

 

Athulya Senior Care is the best option if you're looking for physiotherapy at home in Chennai for a loved one. Athulya, which has the best geriatric healthcare professionals and top-notch nurse home care services, works to reduce hospital stays and offer active seniors personalized care for daily tasks at home. Athulya Home Healthcare is to effect which makes a significant difference in the lives of seniors with the comprehensive therapeutic experience supplied to your home for geriatric age groups.

 

Athulya Home Healthcare services also cover physiotherapy. Licensed professionals will be available at your convenience, at your doorstep. Our physiotherapists at home work with your elders to regain mobility as they age, taking into account the developing movement-related limits that come with advancing age. Athulya's all-inclusive physiotherapy services ensure recuperation and regaining mobility of your loved ones. All of our physiotherapists have extensive training and experience, particularly in treating elderly patients.

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