A physiotherapist provides a variety of hands-on treatment, education and exercise prescription. Physiotherapists can help you achieve your highest level of physical functioning (at any stage of life) by providing you with a personalized treatment plan based on your specific needs. A Physiotherapist can help you with many different conditions from low back pain and neck injuries to post surgical conditions, neurological problems, and motor vehicle accident trauma. Examples of how a physiotherapist can help you include; preventing and treating sports injuries, restoring and increasing range of motion in joints, increasing coordination, helping injured individuals return to work successfully through "work hardening" programs, alleviating pain and educating clients in the use of devices such as canes, crutches, and wheelchairs. Therapy treatment corrects or prevents skeletal damage and stimulates the function of muscles, nerves, joints, ligaments and blood supply.

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