We’re near the midpoint of October 2024, which means that it’s time for our monthly physiotherapy news “drop”. There’s a consistent theme to the release this time around. Read ahead to find out what that is and share this with anyone in your life that the reports (and results) may apply to.
Top Stories from October of 2024 Regarding Physiotherapy You Need to Know About
Physiotherapy Continues to be Recognized as Supplement Treatment for Growing Variety of Disorders
At the risk of being redundant, our monthly Physiotherapy in the News report continues to draw attention to the fact that physiotherapy is increasingly being recognized as a supplementary treatment for disorders and conditions that people don’t typically recognize it for. This month, a feature in Angelman Syndrome News discussed how early physiotherapy intervention therapy has been critical to improved quality of life for their young child who lives with Angelman Syndrome. For the initiated, Angelman Syndrome is a genetic disorder that primarily affects the nervous system. It is characterized by delayed adolescent development, intellectual disability, severe speech impairment, and problems with movement and balance (ataxia). Physiotherapy can be employed early to directly assist with improving movement and balance. In the very near future we plan to create a list (a long list) of medical disorders where physiotherapy contributes to a holistic treatment strategy, but for now let’s applaud its application in helping youth thrive despite the physical impediments of Angelman Syndrome.
Physiotherapy Helps Overweight Osteoarthritis Patients Lose Weight?
This carries over from what we stated above in regard to how physiotherapy continues to prove beneficial in the treatment of a variety of unanticipated (to the general public) health problems The British Journal of Sports Medicine recently published an article on a study that looked at physiotherapy as a supplementary intervention for overweight and obese patients with knee osteoarthritis to lose weight using physic-guided diet and exercise. You can read more about the results here, but we’ll reference the key performance indicator with the concluding data from the study:
Participants receiving physiotherapy intervention lost on average 8.1% of their body weight over six months, whereas the exercise only group had negligible weight loss at < 1% of their body weight.
The data speaks for itself.
Physiotherapy in Multidisciplinary Approach to Treat Brain Disorders
Researchers from the Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience (UBSN) lab at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University confirm that physiotherapy shows value as a part of a multidisciplinary treatment approach to stroke patients, particularly those who experience arm paresis – a partial paralysis that affects about half of stroke patients at three to six months after a stroke. View more on this research at Nature.com.
Stay tuned for more in the months ahead as we monitor news from around the world that may apply to your own wellness program.
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