You need not check the websites to know about the Singapore Physiotherapy. Almost every adult is aware of the best medical treatment being offered by the Singapore Physiotherapy Association. The patients are globally referred to the Novena Centre for recovery, and evidently, there is a miraculous recovery number that is being reflected on the records.
At the Physiotherapy clinic here, the main and the foremost focus for the specialists is to relieve the pain, before treating anything else. The patient on approaching the clinic is interviewed about:
What kind of pain he experiences.
How often is the pain?
How intense is the pain?
What causes it?
What aggravates it?
Once, the therapists have complete knowledge about the patient’s condition, they suggest therapies and treatment for them. Then, there is a mix of physiotherapy treatment techniques to diagnose the main cause, and treat that accordingly.
One commonly treated symptom here is that of 'Neck Problem', that is experienced with the different symptoms:
Neck Pain
Headaches
Referred pain from jaw
Pain spreading through upper back or down the arm
Neck stiffness or reduced motion
Numbness in the forearm, hands or fingers
Physiotherapists deal with such problems, with a high skill of specialization. They examine the neck, explain how to manage the pain, and contribute towards curing that. There can be a variety of physiotherapy techniques and modalities to help cope up with the problem. For relaxing muscles, it can be ultrasound or electrotherapy. The soft tissue techniques such as massage and acupressure help improve the joint mobilization.
Shoulder Pain is another commonly seen problem, the shoulders being the most mobile and complex of all the joints. The shoulder and neck pain can be inter-related, that is being caused by one another. However, there can be any problem causing this pain:
Frozen shoulder
Calcified Tendon
Shoulder Impingement Syndrome
Shoulder dislocation
Shoulder Arthritis
Fracture of Arm
Shoulder joint separation
The physiotherapist should be consulted whenever there is numbness or the immobility felt in the shoulder joint that persists for a few days.
Similar to the neck pain, the physiotherapists can opt for a specific therapy, or a combination of therapies to deal with the main cause, once diagnosed. it may be as simple as the manual therapy for the joint mobilization, massage for the soft tissue release or the medically assisted treatments like ultrasound, LASER therapy, shockwave therapy etc. The medical advice about the different postures, and their effects, and the necessary modifications to be brought to the lifestyles of certain individuals is also a part of the treatment.
Irrespective of the joint pain, there are two factors that are very vital in curing the condition and preventing any recurrence. These are seldom forgotten:
Education: About the disease, the reasons for its occurrence, and the ways to prevent it from recurring. It sometimes calls for some drastic lifestyle changes as an absolute necessity for the cure.
Therapeutic Exercises: Which are very important, and an integral part of any joint pain treatment. It MUST be followed as per the specialists' advice without fail.