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Physical Therapy and Kidney Care
Chinatown Kidney Care, PLLC now is proud to announce that it will
provide physical therapy for its patients by professional physical therapists.
Although the use of certain techniques of physical therapy goes back to ancient
times, the modern profession of physical therapy developed in the twentieth
century. Physical therapists now practice in a wide variety of settings, with
patients from all age groups and with different health problems such as
Renal Failure and Renal Insufficiency.
Beside Renal Failure itself, patients with Renal Failure often have
cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, as well as neurological and
musculoskeleten disorders.
The ability to maintain an upright posture and to move your arms and legs
to perform all sorts of tasks and activities is an important component of your
health. Most of us can learn to live with the various medical conditions that
we may develop, but only if we are able to continue at our jobs, take care of
our families, and enjoy important occasions with family and friends. All of
these activities require the ability to move without difficulty or pain.
Patients with Renal Failure often develop arthritis, osteodystrophy,
secondary hyperparathyroidism, adynamic bone disease, and osteoporosis,
which will lead to back pain, neck pain, shoulder, arm, wrist, or hand problems,
knee, ankle, or foot problems, carpal tunnel syndrome, and hip fractures, etc.
Our physical therapists can diagnose, manage, and treat these disorders by
joint mobilizations, strength training, hot/cold packs, electrical stimulation,
and ultrasound treatments.
For some of us, the ability to move is not merely a matter of using our limbs
to walk or handle objects. There are cardiac and pulmonary problems that
interfere with the body's ability to use oxygen, which is the "fuel" of muscles
and movement. Patients with Renal Failure often have coronary artery
disease, congestive heart failure, hypertension, calcification of cardiovascular
system, and pulmonary diseases. Our physical therapists can improve these
conditions by increasing patients endurance, functional independence, and
even cardiac and pulmonary functions.