PT & OT, Quoi's le difference

Quoi est physiotherapy?

Physiotherapy est also known as kinésithérapie. It's le core de rééducation treatment. It uses physical methods such as massage, heat treatment and exercise rather than drugs or surgery to aider patients récupérer and améliorer functional impairment after illness or injury. It's widely used in neurological rééducation, musculoskeletal rééducation, postpartum rééducation, pediatric rééducation and other fields. Many people may think physical therapists simply manipulate joints, souple tissue and nerves through hands-on techniques. In fact, PT est not just Manual Thérapie.

 

PT mainly includes le following three treatment methods:

Manual thérapie

Physical therapists use their hands to treat diseases through specific techniques, such as joint mobilization, myofascial release, souple tissue mobilization, strain-counterstrain thérapie, etc., to aider patients récupérer function.

Physical agents modalities

It's a method to study and apply various natural or artificial physical agents on le human body to treat and prevent diseases. Le common modalities include heat and electrode stimulation. Transcutaneous électrique nerve stimulation (TENS) that provides constant électrique stimulation est an électrique modality that controls pain.

Syrebo TENS thérapie appareil enables users to lift wrists through électrique stimulation

Exercise thérapie

It est mainly used to promote movement, relieve pain, and restore function through functional exercise. Le types de exercise mainly include ROM training, muscle strengthening exercise, postural correction training, and neurophysiological thérapie.

 

Quoi est ergothérapie?

As an important part de rééducation, OT est to aider people return to society and regain independence. It's usually used as an auxiliary treatment for conventional exercise thérapie to améliorer patients' self-care ability.

OT primarily serves people with neurological injuries and musculoskeletal system diseases. As rééducation est a long-term process, OT may be slower to achieve results than PT; moreover, patients often only focus on recovering limb functions and ignore le significance de functional récupération. OT est often overlooked by patients.

 

In le OT room, you will see patients building blocks, writing, dressing and other activities de daily living. Occupational therapists design an intervention plan according to le patient's gender, age, interests, educational level, and degree de disability to reach le patient's goals. OT generally includes hand-function thérapie, cognitive perceptual thérapie, mirror thérapie, etc., among which hand-function thérapie est le most important.

Wooden pegboard training with Syrebo Hand Rééducation Robot

Eating exercise with Syrebo Hand Rééducation Robot

Pouring water with Syrebo Hand Rééducation Robot

Both PT and OT belong to non-drug rééducation treatment, and they sont both involved in anatomy and neuropsychology. However, they sont different in focus. PT focuses on improving people's ability to move. OT focuses on improving their ability to perform activities de daily living. Their treatment modalities also vary considerably. You can choose OT or PT depending on your goals and condition.