physiotherapy

Noun

Meaning

therapy that uses physical agents: exercise and massage and other modalities

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While I think men and women are equal, they are also different and I think it's inevitable and I don't think it's a bad thing at all that we always have, say, more women doing things like physiotherapy and an enormous number of women simply doing housework. Tony Abbott

I'd always had an interest in physiotherapy and psychology. Bob Paisley

I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn't understand at the time was why the therapists had me doing a lot of stomach work. Hugh Jackman

I like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day. Daniel Craig

Cardiovascular & pulmonary physiotherapy Cardiovascular and pulmonary rehabilitation respiratory practitioners and physical therapists offer therapy for a wide variety of cardiopulmonary disorders or pre and post cardiac or pulmonary surgery. Source: Internet

In the hospital setting, chest physiotherapy is used; a respiratory therapist percusses an individual's chest by hand several times a day, to loosen up secretions. Source: Internet

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