My Treatment: Headache - Treatment Options: Physical Therapy

Physical Therapy

Physical therapy focuses on the concept of getting people functionally back to normal — or as close to it as possible. In the narrowest sense, physical therapy concentrates only on "shake" (massage), "bake" (hot packs) and movement therapies. The broader concept is rehabilitation, which has essentially five major components:

Repair or fix the problem, if possible

Control the pain

Get the range of motion back

Get the tissue health to an optimal level (which means working on the aerobic health capacity).

Strengthen

Various types of hands-on physical therapy approaches are available, beginning with basic range of motion techniques, light or deep massage, and more specific manual therapy such as manipulation of joints or organs or the directed movement of deep fibrous and muscular tissues as in Rolfing.