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What does physical therapy mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word physical therapy? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (countable and uncountable) Any of various therapeutic exercises and other activities to treat injury or dysfunction, or such exercises and activities collectively.
  2. (uncountable) The medical discipline dealing with such.
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The setting for this study was a university gross anatomy laboratory where 54 physical therapy graduate students worked on human cadavers.
The mainstay of initial treatment is a structured regimen of physical therapy.
The patient was treated with physical therapy and obtained symptomatic relief.
We will summarize the content of and access to selected databases with information related to cardiopulmonary physical therapy.
If symptoms are not relieved, physical therapy that includes ultrasonography, massage, and iontophoresis should be considered.
Other treatments include physical therapy, exercise, cortisone injections and joint replacement surgery.

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