Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See physical therapy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Treatment of disease by means of physical remedies, such as massage, gymnastics, etc., instead of drugs.
Wiktionary
- n. therapy that uses physical techniques such as massage, ultrasound, heat, and exercise
WordNet 3.0
- n. therapy that uses physical agents: exercise and massage and other modalities
Examples
“I've turned these things into wall-climbing monkeys; I've modded them for a woman from the University of Miami at the Jackson Memorial who used their capability to ape human motions in physiotherapy programs with nerve-damage cases.”
Boing Boing: September 18, 2005 - September 24, 2005 Archives
“Slide 7: Long term physiotherapy Refers to more complicated diseases of musculoskeletal origin Includes condition like Fractures of major bones S pinal trauma resulting in physical disability and complications like paraplegia, quadriplegia etc.”
“As you heard today, we will soon have to start studying the idea of physiotherapy gyms.”
“Physical therapy, also known as physiotherapy, provides treatment to individuals to establish, maintain and restore function and mobility.”
“To be fair, conventional approaches, such as physiotherapy, also struggle to treat back problems with any consistency.”
“In many areas essential treatments such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy and psychological support are not available to stroke survivors.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Interestingly, the research found that while the average vet expense was $450 per year, 22% of owners have had to spend large amounts of money on high-tech medical treatment (such as physiotherapy, chemotherapy etc) for their dog, yet only 6.4% of owners have pet insurance.”
“Complementary treatments such as physiotherapy on the NHS can in some cases involve weeks of waiting after seeing a doctor.”
“This silly idea which Ricketts could not justify when challenged required a complete new set of senior managers in 150 new provider arms (health visitors, district nurses, school nurses, community services such as physiotherapy etc).”
“With more than 900 patients having passed through MSF's surgical facilities and increasing numbers of patients with renal failure receiving life-saving dialysis, there is already a significant need for specialist care and also for long-term care, such as physiotherapy and psychological support.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘physiotherapy’.
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physio-, phys-
relating to nature; relating to physiology
physiocrat, physiotherapy, physiology, physitheism, physicochemical, physiography
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massage
the message is in the massage ( to fracture Marshall McLuhan)
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium / that is, of any extens...knead, chirapsia, effleurage, shiatsu, tapotement, trituration, petrissage, tripsis, reflexology, physiotherapy, acupressure, naturopathy and 4 more...
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