Physiotherapy

Physiotherapy means physiotherapeutic system of medicine which includes examination, treatment advice and instructions to any person in connection with movement, dysfunction, bodily malfunction, physical disorder, disability, healing and pain from trauma and disease. Dr. Ryan Briggs and his staff are excited to help facilitate your healing through their physiotherapy work serving the Winter Haven, FL community.

Purpose :

The purpose of physiotherapy is to decrease body dysfunctions and reduce pain caused either by trauma, inflammation, degeneration, and surgery. The various conditions in which physiotherapy useful are as follows:

1) Management of a fracture and return to normal function is possible with simple methods of physiotherapy. It allows for regain of full joint movements and muscle power after healing of a fracture.

2) In joints and soft tissue injury rapid repair of damaged tissue occurs with quick reduction of pain and swelling.

3) Restoration of full joint movements with reduction of pain and deformity is possible for various kinds of joint diseases like osteoarthritis, rheumatoid, arthritis, juvenile arthritis etc.

4) In degenerative disease of the spine, physiotherapy arrests the progress of disease as in cervical spondylosis. Suitable orthotics is also provided for giving support to the spine. It also has a major role to play in congenital spine diseases of the spine like spina-bifida.

5) Chest physiotherapy has a vital role to play in medical and surgical conditions like bronchial asthma, chronic obstructive lung disease, pneumothorax but also surgical procedures involving spine, pelvis, extremities and abdomen.