PT & OT, What's the difference? - ictus Center

What is fisioterapia?

fisioterapia is also known as fisioterapia. It's the core of riabilitazione trattamento. It uses physical methods such as massage, heat trattamento and esercizio rather than drugs or surgery to aiuto patients recover and migliorare functional impairment after illness or injury. It's widely used in neurologico riabilitazione, musculoskeletal riabilitazione, postpartum riabilitazione, pediatric riabilitazione and other fields. Many people may think physical therapists simply manipulate joints, soft tissue and nerves through hands-on techniques. In fact, PT is not just Manual terapia.

 

PT mainly includes the following three trattamento methods:

Manual terapia

Physical therapists uso their hands to treat diseases through specific techniques, such as joint mobilization, myofascial release, soft tissue mobilization, strain-counterstrain terapia, etc., to aiuto patients recover function.

Physical agents modalities

It's a method to studio and apply various natural or artificial physical agents on the human body to treat and prevent diseases. The common modalities include heat and electrode stimulation. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) that provides constant electrical stimulation is an electrical modality that controls pain.

Syrebo TENS terapia dispositivo enables users to lift wrists through electrical stimulation

esercizio terapia

It is mainly used to promote movement, relieve pain, and restore function through functional esercizio. The types of esercizio mainly include ROM allenamento, muscle strengthening esercizio, postural correction allenamento, and neurophysiological terapia.

 

What is terapia occupazionale?

As an important part of riabilitazione, OT is to aiuto people return to society and regain independence. It's usually used as an auxiliary trattamento for conventional esercizio terapia to migliorare patients' self-care ability.

OT primarily serves people with neurologico injuries and musculoskeletal sistema diseases. As riabilitazione is a long-term process, OT may be slower to achieve results than PT; moreover, patients often only focus on recovering arto functions and ignore the significance of functional recupero. OT is often overlooked by patients.

 

In the OT room, you will see patients building blocks, writing, dressing and other activities of daily living. Occupational therapists design an intervention plan according to the paziente's gender, age, interests, educational level, and degree of disability to reach the paziente's goals. OT generally includes mano-function terapia, cognitive perceptual terapia, terapia dello specchio, etc., among which mano-function terapia is the most important.

Wooden pegboard allenamento with Syrebo mano robot per la riabilitazione

Eating esercizio with Syrebo mano robot per la riabilitazione

Pouring water with Syrebo mano robot per la riabilitazione

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