physical therapy
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈfɪzɪkəl ˈθɛrəpi/
- Specialized
:
fisioterapia
- Without adequate pain control, physical therapy is delayed and the risk of complications increases.
- physical therapy treatment
- a physical therapy session
- physical therapy exercises
That's my mental therapy and my physical therapy.
- That's my mental therapy and my physical therapy.
- They have an app that is it's like APT, like a physical therapy app.
- But remember too, that physical therapy is often really helpful in terms of just getting people moving again, lifting weights, walking, exercising.
- So I went to PT physical therapy and the physical therapist gave me some things to do and they're, they're helping a bit, but you know, it's still pain.
- I regained from physical therapy in this joint, my shoulder.
- And what sucks now, dude, is I'm back in the physical therapy grind.
Examples
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From now on, she will be in charge of your physical therapy sessions.
Fiction book (2001) -
He'd been in a leg cast for a month and then through physical therapy all summer.
Fiction book (1990) -
We're just going to head back to the physical therapy room.
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I have physical therapy now.
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My coaches gave me a hard time about going to physical therapy and missing practice.
Academic text (2002) -
He's just starting physical therapy.
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So how's the physical therapy going?
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Patients are often unable to participate fully in physical therapy or other activities that are essential for recuperation.
Academic text (2006) -
Ian and Kensie are walking unassisted during physical therapy sessions with that department's free-standing cane.
Academic text (1995) -
After six weeks of intense physical therapy in the hospital, I went back to school.
Synonyms
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3.7
Treatment using exercise and massage to help people recover after injury or illness
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6.3
Treatment using exercises and physical methods to reduce pain and help movement
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3.4
A process that helps people get back strength and movement after illness, injury, or disability
Care that helps someone regain movement and strength after an injury
Antonyms
How Intensive
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3.9
- Specialized
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3.7
- Specialized
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4.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'treatment using bodily/physical methods' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'physical' (concerning the body) with 'therapy' (medical treatment). This adjective+noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern (e.g., terapia física / physiothérapie) and follows normal English compounding, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will infer the meaning.
Etymology
The term physical therapy comes from treating the physical, that is the body, with hands, exercise and movement, and from therapy, meaning 'treatment'. So, physical therapy means helping people with exercise, massage or other body methods to recover from injury or pain instead of using drugs or surgery.