physical therapy

noun

1. the treatment or management of physical disability, malfunction, or pain by exercise, massage, hydrotherapy, etc., without the use of medicines, surgery, or radiation.
2. the health profession that provides such care.

physical therapy

noun

1. another term for physiotherapy

Other Words From

• physical therapist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of physical therapy¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

I return home after several days in the hospital and start thrice weekly physical therapy.

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But physical therapy and empowering people with disabilities?

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With that diet and physical therapy, she soon began to improve.

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A study reports electrical stimulation and physical therapy helped wheelchair-bound patients stand for more than four minutes.

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Homicidal twins, physical therapy, and an obsessive mineral collection later, that's exactly what happened.

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And to do it the hardest possible way, because I believe in physical therapy for your mental problems.

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In short, as Barker aptly puts it, "Every psychotherapy is also a physical therapy."

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Even he did not realize that every psychotherapy is also a physical therapy.

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