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What is Physiotherapy?
Physiotherapy: from Greek phusio, from phusis nature, from phuein, to make grow. Conventional physiotherapy could be described as therapy by physical means for appropriate disorders of the locomotor and nervous systems. It is recognised as making a major contribution to treatments used in Western medicine and has been practised since the classical era. Hippocrates wrote of giving lumbar traction two millennia ago, and Galen advocated therapeutic manipulation of the spine. Modern physiotherapy uses techniques such as mobilisation, manipulation, massage, sports strapping, electrotherapy and acupuncture.
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