run, crawl etc. It can also relieve pain and restore physical function and overall fitness.
Physical therapy is carried out by any one among the physical therapist (PT) or an assistant (PTA) which acts under their direction. The physical therapist or its assistant uses manual therapy, exercise, modalities and education like that of cold, heat and electrical inspiration to work on the way to these aims.
Depending on the disease, injury or condition, the person is required to work on his/her strength, coordination, endurance, flexibility and balance. To do all this in physical therapy, the treatment should be focus to prevent the problems that may affect following in a patient:
1) The heart and heart related vessels.
2) The lungs and breathing.
3) The nerves and related system.
4) The skin, which may involve wounds or burns.
5) The muscles, ligaments and bones.
It is to be sure that the above problems may not be created in a patient while doing physical therapy.
For different kinds of problem different physical therapists are specialized in that particular case. For example; for the patient of hearts and lungs disorders, they can benefited with a pulmonary and cardiovascular specialized physical therapists and for restoring mobility(walking, running etc), reduce pain and increase in fitness level geriatric physical therapists are specialized. The physical therapy of geriatric includes a sufficient area of problems which concern the people as they passes through normal adult aging, but is typically focused on the older adult.
There are also many other kinds of physical therapies like orthopedic, integument, pediatric, neurological. All physical therapies are for different organs and different procedures are followed in each of the physical therapy.