What is neurological physical therapy?

Neurological Physical Therapy is the treatment of individuals with movement

problems in the nervous system due to any disease or injury.
 Neurological Physical Therapists can reduce the symptoms of the disease, improve
functions, and improve the patient life.

For Example, your body gets injured and doctor recommend going to physiotherapy to
improve and restore the function of injured muscles, ligaments and tendons. As that same
thing is hold for nervous system.
What problems are found in neurological patients?

As we know that nervous system is complex system in our body. It always controls and
regulate the whole functions of body. When there is problem in our nervous system, we have
trouble in moving, swallowing, speaking, breathing and also problem in sense or mod and
memory.
Is Neurological physiotherapy being important for patients?
Neurological physical therapy is very important for the patients who have the neurological
disease or injury. Physical therapist helps the patient and regulate the functions and
improve the quality of life.
Without physiotherapy of neurological patient, he may lose many functions like,

 Unable to perform certain activity

 Unable to speak
 Unable to eat
 Find difficulty in breathing
 Unable to remember events
When injured patient decreased the activity many other health problems are found like,

 Heart problems
 Lungs problems
 Diabetes
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What conditions may need neurological physiotherapy?

 Stroke
 Spinal cord injury
  Brain injury
 Alzheimer disease
 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
 Parkinson's disease
 Multiple sclerosis
 Guillain-Barre Syndrome
 Trauma such as brain and spinal injuries.
 Infections such as meningitis, polio and brain abscesses
 Ataxia
 Spasticity/Tone
Neurological physical therapy treatment

 Restore the motion

 Improve the quality of movement and strength
 Gait training
 Posture alignment
 Balance of whole body and decrease the risk of falling
 Core stabilization
 Activity of daily living performance
 Visual perceptual skills retraining
 Cardiovascular endurance
 Improve motor planning and motor control
 Decrease the spasticity and tone
 Prosthesis training
 Equipment evaluation / recommendation include cane, wheelchairs, walkers or
crutches