Treat The Neurological Disorder Through Neurological Physiotherapy!

Neurological Physiotherapy is a healthcare service that specializes in treating and managing the conditions of people who have a neurological state resulting from the damage to their spinal cord, nerves or brain. The professional who carries out this medical procedure is known as Neurological physiotherapist.

What Is Neurological Physiotherapy?

When something causes a problem within the nervous system, this situation can lead to a neurological disorder, which can further lead to the problems in swallowing, moving, talking and even breathing. More often than not, problems within the nervous system can also cause disturbances in mood, feeling and memory loss. The branch of medical science that deals with treating these conditions is referred as neurological physiotherapy.

Let’s see what conditions can be treated under the service of Neurological Physiotherapy…..  

• Stroke (CVA)
• Motor Neurone Disease
• Huntingtons Disease
• Head Injury
• Cerebral Palsy
• Muscular Dystrophy
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Guillan-Barre
• Parkinsons Disease
• Charcot Marie Tooth
• Other Neurological conditions

Neurological Assessment –

Depending upon the symptoms that a patient presents, the neurological physiotherapist will assess any of the following area…..

• Posture and balance
• Muscle tightness
• Muscle power and imbalance
• Joint stiffness
• Co-ordination
• Altered sensation
• Activities of daily living

The assessment may take around one hour in which the physiotherapist may ask some questions to the patients about diagnosis, symptoms, taking a short medical history and discussing about the expectations that they have from the physiotherapy service.

Neurological Treatment –

After assessing the conditions, the Neurological physiotherapist tailors a treatment plan and apt goal keeping the patients’ current condition in mind. Neurological physiotherapy treatment may include specific exercise prescription, hands-on therapies and a home exercise program. Depending on the needs of an individual, neurological treatment may include…..

• Balance work
• Exercise therapy
•  Advice, education and promotion of self management
• Sensory retraining
• Practicing activities of daily living
• Pain management
• Teaching the techniques on moving or positioning.

Some people with neurological disorders need high levels of care, additional support and specialized equipment. The physiotherapist can teach the right techniques to the family or anyone who is in charge of caring the patient on moving and positioning so that they can be supervised all the time and receive the best possible treatment or support they need.

Neurological physiotherapy aims to help the patients improving problems associated with nervous system so that they can return to their normal activities of daily living.