Physical Therapy

Medical kinesiology studies the neuromuscular and joint mechanisms that enable normal human motor activity, while also recording, analysing and correcting deficient neuromuscular and joint mechanisms. Limited motor activity may be caused by the following: reduced muscle strength or contracture, muscle spasticity, joint stiffness (reduced mobility), or lack of movement coordination. A medical field within kinesiology, physiotherapy (kinesiotherapy) is a personalised form of therapy that uses movement as its means of treatment, in its various active or passive forms, which through repetition becomes a physical exercise in itself.
Physiotherapy can take two forms:
Preventive physiotherapy - covers all the kinesiological methods and means aimed at maintaining and optimising health, essentially preventing illness in the human body through physical exercise (primary prevention). Prevention also means applying all the therapeutic means needed to prevent the worsening or onset of pathological and functional complications of chronic diseases (secondary prevention).
It is suitable for all people, whether active or less active, especially for correcting poor postures caused by a sedentary lifestyle and prolonged sitting in incorrect positions.
Therapeutic and rehabilitation physiotherapy - aims to restore diminished functions or increase functional capacity in various conditions, through physical exercise programmes.