Physiotherapie Angersbach:
Meine Erfahrung – Ihre Gesundheit

Physiotherapy is a medical treatment method aimed at maintaining, restoring, or improving the body’s movement and functional abilities. Through active exercises such as therapeutic exercises and passive applications such as massage, it seeks to promote mobility, alleviate pain, and improve quality of life in cases of orthopedic problems (including osteoarthritis or herniated discs), neurological disorders (including stroke), or chronic pain.

In physiotherapy, targeted movement and various passive applications such as massage, thermotherapy or electrotherapy are used to improve physical mobility, strengthen muscles and relieve pain.

The process of physiotherapy is usually very similar: It begins with a comprehensive medical history and the development of an individual therapy plan. This is followed by mobilization exercises, functional training, and various home programs designed to improve mobility in everyday life.

The term physiotherapy is an umbrella term encompassing both physical therapy and therapeutic exercise. Therapeutic exercise (also known as movement therapy) is therefore a subfield of physiotherapy, encompassing a variety of treatment methods and techniques that affect the entire musculoskeletal system of the body.

Physiotherapy, as a healing method, encompasses many different active exercises and passive applications to maintain, restore, or improve the body’s movement and functional abilities.

These are the most important types of physiotherapy:

• Electrotherapy: Electricity used to relieve pain and stimulate muscles.
• Functional training: Exercises for everyday movements such as getting up or walking
• Physiotherapy: Exercises for stretching, strengthening and improving coordination.
• Manual therapy: Mobilization of joints and release of blockages by the hands of a therapist.
• Mobilization: Exercises for more flexible joints
• Massage: Relaxation of the muscles and promotion of blood circulation
• Thermotherapy: Cold or heat for pain relief

Physiotherapy can help with, among other things, these illnesses:

• Osteoarthritis
• Pelvic floor problems
• Cardiovascular diseases
• Headaches/Migraines
• multiple sclerosis
• osteoporosis
• Parkinson
• rheumatism
• Back pain
• stroke
• Injuries to joints, muscles or tendons

Physiotherapy is recommended once a week – however, the treating physician decides how many treatments are needed. The number of sessions depends on these factors:

• Diagnosis: Acute pain can usually be relieved within a few sessions – chronic conditions often require ongoing therapy.
• Patient: Those who regularly perform the recommended exercises can significantly accelerate their recovery.
• Therapy start: The sooner a patient begins therapy after an injury or illness, the more likely a quick and complete recovery is.

The fact that a physiotherapy session typically only lasts 20 minutes is primarily due to health insurance companies only calculating treatment time based on 15 to 20 minutes. Because these 20 minutes also include time for dressing and undressing, as well as documentation, the actual duration of a physiotherapy session can be reduced to 10 to 15 minutes.

Since my practice is only really aimed at self-paying or private patients, I can deviate from these rigid requirements – and offer my patients treatment times of 25 or 50 minutes.

Statutory health insurance covers 90% of the costs of physiotherapy treatment. This means that patients with statutory health insurance must pay 10% of the treatment costs themselves. In addition, a prescription fee of €10 is charged for the referral.

Private health insurance (PKV) covers the costs of physiotherapy according to the agreed tariff – usually, this includes treatment costs up to 3.5 times the standard rate.

As a rule, the prerequisite for reimbursement of costs is that the physiotherapy is medically necessary and a doctor’s prescription (referral) is available.