How home care physiotherapy works better for recovery

Physiotherapy helps people recover quickly by giving them pain management exercises, ideas for a manual therapy approach, and guidance on whether they can perform their chores on their own due to disability, injury, or illness. Physiotherapy can help alleviate your pain, guide you toward a plan for recovery for chronic pain conditions such as back pain, allow for routine movement again on schedule, and help you manage chronic conditions such as asthma. It also covers orthopedic injuries, cardiopulmonary diseases, and neurological conditions.

Home health physical therapy is essential for older adults to achieve a positive quality of life while improving independence. When we age, a loss of muscle and bone mass often occurs that alters our ability to carry out daily activities such as walking, climbing stairs, or simply sitting down or standing from a chair. Physical therapy assists our home health patients and older adults with mobility and strength to help them enjoy their activities.

A personalized approach to healing in the comfort of your own home, no longer traveling to clinics, with the expertise of Home Care by LCH coming to you.

To whom is home care physiotherapy beneficial

• Respiratory issues such as cystic fibrosis, COPD, asthma, etc
• Neurological conditions such as the spinal cord injury, Stroke, Parkinson’s, and multiple sclerosis
• Neuromusculoskeletal conditions, such as the disorders that affect muscles, sports injuries, joint tightness, and arthritis
• Cardiovascular conditions such as Rheumatic Heart Disease, rehabilitation after a heart attack

Home physiotherapy is ideal for patients with muscle or chronic joint pain. You can reduce the discomfort through exercise, and tools, including ultrasound and TENS/IFT, will support you. Should you have trouble walking, the physiotherapist will conduct range of motion activities, such as mild stretching, to increase flexibility and reduce tight, rigid joints and/or muscles. If your pain is caused by joint weakness, the physiotherapist will give you strengthening workouts to help you control your pain and develop long-term strength.

How Do Home Care Physiotherapy Services Operate and What to Expect?

One of the initial things the physiotherapist will do is a comprehensive assessment of your situation. You may need to have a physical exam. In addition, the therapist will take down your medical history and perform some tests to assess your posture, movement, flexibility, and how your muscles and joints function. 

Once that is settled, your physiotherapist will give you a diagnosis and tell you what you are and where the work needs to go. They will provide you with a treatment plan and tell you what short-term and long-term goals the treatment aims to achieve. If you are under home care physiotherapy, do not hesitate to ask your physiotherapist any questions.

Why Home Physiotherapy is a better choice

Provides the Opportunity for Monitoring: 

Having your physiotherapy treatment done at home means your family and friends can see your improvements. They can track your treatments and ensure you receive the best quality treatments possible.

Cost Effective

In-home physiotherapy is cheaper as you will save travel expenses by not having to drive or pay for transit between your home and the physiotherapy clinic or hospital for the inconvenient but necessary therapy sessions. In the case of severe ailments, you may need to take an ambulance to the outpatient therapy, which can be expensive.

Involvement of Family Members

The physiotherapist is going to come to your home, the appointment is also an opportunity for you to introduce your family members to your physiotherapist. This is beneficial because the physiotherapist can instruct your family members what exercises they can have you perform outside your physiotherapy sessions or what postures to remind you about, to facilitate your recovery consistently. Suggestions like these can help you and your family travel down the path to recovery.

Time Saving

There is a considerable amount of time to be saved with physiotherapy in home care services, due to not needing to drive through traffic, nor sit for what seems like eternity, at the physiotherapy center. In home physiotherapy, the physiotherapist arrives directly at your home when you prefer.

Conclusion

Home-based care physical therapy is a convenient, helpful, and cost-effective way of rehabilitation that helps people to control pain, heal from many diseases, and restore independence of everything at a patient’s place of residence. It guarantees better patient care, and customized treatment, so it is a very useful choice for individuals of all ages, particularly those with chronic health conditions or limited mobility. A personalized approach to healing in the comfort of your own home, no longer traveling to clinics, with the expertise of Home Care by LCH coming to you.