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Brand Names:
Theraputic Massage
What is Physiotherapy?
Physiotherapy is an allied health profession concerned with the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and disability through physical means. It is based upon principles of medical science, and is generally held to be within the sphere of conventional medicine.
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Reasons Taken
103 patients in the community are taking or have taken Physiotherapy.
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Stiffness/spasticity | 37 | 35% |
| Other | 12 | 11% |
| General health | 12 | 11% |
| Slow my ALS progress | 9 | 8% |
| Pain | 5 | 4% |
| Balance problems | 4 | 3% |
| Treat my MSA | 2 | 1% |
| disease-related symptoms | 2 | 1% |
| Mobility | 2 | 1% |
| Brain fog | 1 | <1% |
| Walking difficulty without aid | 1 | <1% |
| Fibromyalgia | 1 | <1% |
| Foot drop | 1 | <1% |
| Loss of use of left side | 1 | <1% |
| Weakness/slowness (asthenia) | 1 | <1% |
| Depression | 1 | <1% |
| Treat my mood condition(s) | 1 | <1% |
| Slow my MS progress | 1 | <1% |
| Support another treatment | 1 | <1% |
| 0 hr month | 0 hr none | 0 hr week | 0 week | 0.03333 hr month | 0.035715 hr week | 0.06666 hr month | 0.07143 hr week | 0.14286 hr week | 0.178575 hr week | 0.21429 hr week | 0.28572 hr week | 0.28572 week | 0.42858 hr week | 0.5 hr week | 0.57144 hr week | 1 hr day | 1 day | 1 hr none | 1.14288 hr week | 1.5 hr day | 2 hr day | 3 hr day | ||
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Duration
How long current patients have been taking Physiotherapy or how long patients were taking Physiotherapy before stopping.
Currently taking Physiotherapy
Stopped taking Physiotherapy
Patient Reported Evaluations
Results from 2 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.
Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)
| Major | 100% | 1 |
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Treat my MSA
Side-effects (as an overall problem)
| Severe | 0% | 0 |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate | 0% | 0 |
| Mild | 50% | 1 |
| None | 50% | 1 |
Top reported side-effects include: tenderness
Summary results are based on 2 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.
Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (1 of 2)
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- btrflynana2
- Autonomic: Moderate
- Mood: Very bad
- Cognition: Moderate
- Head: mild
- Arms: none
- Legs: mild
- Tremors: none
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by btrflynana2
Sep 21, 2008
- EfficacyMajor
- Side-effectsMild
- Treat my MSA
- Advice/Tips
- If you can afford it do it!! I move better and my pain level is helped out tremendously!
- See full evaluation
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