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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 mainstay of initial treatment is a structured regimen of physical therapy.
Treatment includes analgesics and physical therapy, with resolution of symptoms usually occurring in three to four months.
Other treatments include physical therapy, exercise, cortisone injections and joint replacement surgery.
The setting for this study was a university gross anatomy laboratory where 54 physical therapy graduate students worked on human cadavers.
Mild symptoms may be helped by conservative treatments such as pain relievers, physical therapy or a supportive brace.
They were then assigned randomly to receive the forearm brace alone, physical therapy alone, or both.

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