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Physical therapy

Descriptions of Physical therapy

Physical therapy: The use of exercises and physical activities to help condition muscles and restore strength and movement. For example, physical therapy can be used to restore arm and shoulder movement and build back strength after breast cancer surgery.
Source: National Institute of Health

Physical therapy : therapies to prevent, correct, or alleviate dysfunction of anatomic or physiologic origin, employing physical phenomena such as temperature, light, water, and sound, as well as exercise and massage.
Source: CRISP

Basic Information: Physical therapy

Count: Physical therapy is listed as a: treatment for 68 conditions; alternative treatment for 0 conditions; preventive treatment for 0 conditions; research treatment for 0 conditions.

Treatments: list of all treatments

List of Diseases with Physical therapy as a Treatment

The following list of conditions have 'Physical therapy' or similar listed as a treatment in our database:

A

  • Alpers Syndrome ... Physical therapy
  • Ankle sprain ... physical therapy
  • Apraxia ... physical therapy
  • Ataxia Telangiectasia ... Physical therapy

    B

  • Back pain ... physical therapy
  • Batten Disease ... Physical therapy
  • Bell's Palsy ... physical therapy
  • Brachial Plexus Injury ... physical therapy
  • Bronchopulmonary dysplasia ... physical therapy

    C

  • Cerebral Palsy ... physical therapy
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (generic term) ... physical therapy
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with pyramidal features, autosomal dominant ... physical therapy
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disorder ... Physical therapy
  • Chronic pain ... Physical therapy
  • Classic childhood ALD ... physical therapy
  • Coffin-Lowry syndrome ... physical therapy
  • Common Variable Immunodeficiency ... Physical therapy
  • Corticobasal Degeneration ... physical therapy

    D

  • Deposition diseases related fibromyalgia ... physical therapy
  • Dermatomyositis ... Physical therapy
  • Dystonias ... physical therapy

    E

  • Epstein Barr virus related fibromyalgia ... physical therapy

    F

  • Fibromyalgia ... physical therapy
  • Friedreich's ataxia ... Physical therapy

    H

  • Hallervorden-Spatz disease ... physical therapy

    I

  • Inclusion Body Myositis ... Physical therapy

    J

  • Jaw conditions ... physical therapy
  • Joubert Syndrome ... physical therapy

    K

  • Klippel Feil Syndrome ... Physical therapy
  • Knee sprain ... physical therapy
  • Krabbé Disease ... Physical therapy

    L

  • L1 Syndrome ... Physical therapy

    M

  • Major depressive disorder related fibromyalgia ... physical therapy
  • Mitochondrial diseases ... physical therapy
  • Mobius syndrome ... Physical therapy
  • Moebius Syndrome ... Physical therapy
  • Muscle contraction headache ... physical therapy
  • Myotonic Dystrophy ... Physical therapy
  • Möbius syndrome ... Physical therapy

    O

  • Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy ... physical therapy
  • Osteoarthritis ... physical therapy

    P

  • Parkinson's Disease ... physical therapy
  • Persistent Vegetative State ... Physical therapy
  • Pinched Nerve ... Physical therapy
  • Porencephaly ... physical therapy
  • Primary Fibromyalgia ... physical therapy
  • Primary Lateral Sclerosis ... Physical therapy
  • Psychogenic headache ... Physical therapy

    R

  • Repetitive Motion Disorders ... Physical therapy
  • Repetitive Strain Injury ... Physical therapy
  • Rheumatoid arthritis related fibromyalgia ... physical therapy

    S

  • Salivary gland cancer ... Physical therapy
  • Schizencephaly ... physical therapy
  • Sciatica ... Physical therapy
  • Secondary Fibromyalgia ... physical therapy
  • Septo-Optic Dysplasia ... physical therapy
  • Shoulder dislocation ... physical therapy
  • Shoulder separation ... physical therapy
  • SLE related fibromyalgia ... physical therapy
  • Sleep disturbance related fibromyalgia ... physical therapy
  • Spinal Muscular Atrophy ... physical therapy
  • Spinal stenosis ... Physical therapy
  • Sprain ... physical therapy
  • Stiff-Person Syndrome ... Physical therapy
  • Strain ... physical therapy
  • Stroke ... physical therapy

    T

  • Tension myositis related fibromyalgia ... physical therapy

    W

  • Whiplash ... physical therapy
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