PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION

It was seen that, physical exercise and meditation are the most effective strategy to cope up with daily life stress and anxiety. Even from the ancient documentary evidences, it is established that, health and mind somehow can be regulated by the regular practice of physical exercise and meditation. The rationale of such realization has made ‘physical medicine’ an ‘influential pathway’ to be healthy over any life style circumstances. Various modifications in the main theme of physical exercise have been observed in recent time in the name of ‘Physical therapy’ or ‘Physiotherapy’. However, application of ‘Physical medicine’ in neurological rectification is globally a novel approach. It has been shown that, involvement of ‘caregiver’ in the manual exercise is crucial in patient perspective. Depending upon the application specificity, various associated techniques have been introduced in recent time like short wave diathermy, wax therapy, interferential therapy, ultrasonic, and muscle strengthening exercise, which have been shown to be effective to treat and relive from pain, recovery of stroke patients, recovery from cerebral palsy and cardio pulmonary rehabilitation. Globally, the awareness and study on ‘Physical Medicine’ is increasing gradually and the present ‘International Journal of Physiotherapy & Physical Rehabilitation’ provides a world-class platform to publish relevant works on related field of Physical medicine. The authors of the recently released issue (Volume 5, Issue 3) have documented several impactful articles, a brief of which has been discussed here.