Physiotherapy

About Physiotherapy

What is Physiotherapy?

Physiotherapy is a treatment to restore, maintain, and make the most of a patient’s mobility, function, and well-being.

Physiotherapy Department at Al Zahra Hospital Dubai provides excellent services to meet the needs of the patient population in outpatient units, inpatient units, and acute care settings – Intensive Care Units. It addresses impairments and disabilities resulting from complex trauma, musculoskeletal, neurological, cardio respiratory conditions, sports injuries and women’s health. Physiotherapy department will provide services to both adult and pediatrics groups where services are indicated.

We are committed to provide skilled and dynamic service through high quality standard of services and developing evidence-based patient – centered care in order to improve the quality of life of people with functional disabilities. Our services involve a holistic approach to the prevention, diagnosis, and therapeutic management of disorders of movement or optimization of function to enhance the health and welfare of the community from an individual perspective.

Our main goals are:

To restore maximum physical and functional potential
Address the psychological effects of the disability and to minimize the time it takes to return to daily activity.

We provide solutions for the following conditions:

Musculoskeletal Disorders.
Orthopaedic Injuries and Post-Surgical Rehabilitation.
Sports Injuries.
Spinal Short and Long-Term.
Neurological Disorders – Stroke, Cerebral Pasy, Nerve Lesions, Myelopathies, Parkinson.
OG Rehabilitation – Prenatal and Post-Natal.
Cardiorespiratory Conditions – Copd, Restrictive Lung Diseases, ICU Care.
Geriatric Disorders.

Physiotherapy Services:

Neuromuscular Re-Education.
Strength and Endurance Training.
Oedema Control.
Pain Management.
Electrotherapeutic Modalities.
- Interferential Therapy.
- Ultrasound Therapy.
- Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation.
- Laser Therapy.
- Spinal Traction and Flexion Distraction Unit.
Hot and Cold Therapy.
Spinal Treatment.
- Manual Therapy: Neural Tissue Mobilization, Trigger Point Therapy, Spinal Mobilization and Manipulation.
Peripheral Joint Mobilization and Manipulation.
Balance / Proprioception Training.
Flexibility Training.
Therapeutic Exercises.
Functional Mobility Training.
Bed Mobility, Transfers, Ambulation.
Cardiac Rehabilitation / Pulmonary Rehabilitation.
Postural and Ergonomic Advice.
Kinesiotaping.
Gait Aid Prescription and Training, Exercise Equipment, Braces.
Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation.
Spinal Core Muscle and Pelvic Floor Muscles Training.
Patient Education.
Home Program.
Ergonomic Advices.
Postural Correction Techniques.
- ICU Services, Inpatient Services.

Central Nervous System

Open visitation with only two visitors in a room at any given time. No one under 12 years of age may.

Allergic Disorders

Open visitation with only two visitors in a room at any given time. No one under 12 years of age may.

Neoplastic Disorders

Open visitation with only two visitors in a room at any given time. No one under 12 years of age may.

For endocrine problems

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For the respiratory system

For the ear, nose and oropharynx

For the respiratory system

Chest CT Scan

Although pulmonary medicine only began to evolve as a medical specialty in the 1950s, William Welch and William Osler founded the ‘parent’ organization of the American Thoracic Society

One of the first major discoveries relevant to the field of pulmonology was the discovery of pulmonary circulation. Originally, it was thought that blood reaching the right side of the heart passed through small ‘pores’ in the septum into the left side to be oxygenated, as theorized by Galen; however, the discovery of pulmonary circulation disproves this theory, which had previously been accepted since the 2nd century. Thirteenth century anatomist and physiologist Ibn Al-Nafis accurately theorized that there was no ‘direct’ passage between the two sides.