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The purpose of physical therapy
Most people think that the physical therapy can only be applied to" cure" on the field, but physical therapists tasks and more than this; many are not ill make some preventive education, particularly in Europe and the United States and other countries, the therapist 's role in this is more obvious.
Therefore, physical therapists in the face of different groups, with different treatment goals, generally can be divided into education for prevention, treatment and correction, education and training three.


Preventive education: mainly for ordinary citizens, the general conditions or disease trends to make education, correct its errors and the pattern of life, prevent pain and symptoms ( such as neck pain prevention education and exercise for elderly etc.).

The treatment and correction: that is normally considered to have physical therapy; pain, dysfunction and chronic disease patients as subjects, so as to reduce the symptoms of quantity and quality as the goal, and at the same time to education, prevent recurrence or worsening of symptoms. Its main effect, have roughly the following several kinds: anti-inflammatory, analgesic, releasable adhesive, to soften the scar, stimulation of denervated muscle excitability of nervous system disorders; people can relieve the spasm, and induce the patient make motor function; reply joint normal activity, normal muscle strength and normal gait.

Education and training: mainly for disabled people, when disabled cannot be recovered, the therapist through education and training, so that patients use their residual function, in the appropriate assistive technology assistance to the daily, allowing patients to return to society.