Physiotherapist treatment helps to alleviate physical symptoms associated with depression.

-improve the patient’s physical condition will reverse an improvement in his mood and emotional state

Madrid, October of 2011- the Deputy of the General Council of schools of physical therapists of Spain (CGCFE), Almansa Núñez, on the occasion of the European depression dayHe reminded that the physiotherapist treatment helps to alleviate physical symptoms associated with depression, contributing to a greater sense of well-being of the patient and, therefore, to a faster recovery.

Depression is one of the main causes of occupational disability in Spain. It’s a disease, especially elderly and women, although the stress we suffer today has made that the average age of persons who suffer has brought forward ten years.

According to Núñez explained, anxiety and depression are more common in today’s society psychological disorders. Both are characterized by psychological symptoms accompanying normally physical symptoms due to an increase in the activity of the sympathetic nervous system, such as retraction and muscular hypertonia, rigidity and limitation of mobility, pain, headaches and dizziness, which leadsIt has highlighted, a worsening of the quality of life of those who suffer from it.

Depression and pain share similar brain mechanisms. In this line, the Deputy of the Council has ensured that depression can be manifested by pain and patients with depression often perceive pain in a more intense way, which is why many patients come to the physiotherapist for presenting pain, without knowing they have.

Psychological treatments help to improve the quality of life of those who have any of these disorders. However, pointed out Núñez, if psychological treatment is accompanied by a physiotherapist treatment to relieve the physical symptoms associated with these disorders, feeling of well-being of the patient will be greater.

Physiotherapy techniques used in this type of disorder are the basal body awareness therapy, psychomotor therapy, massage therapy, multisensory stimulation, postural re-education, craniosacral, induction myofascial therapy and other complementary therapies, has stressed, at the time that it has stressed that improve the patient’s physical condition will reverse an improvement in his mood and emotional state ”.

CGCFE

The General Council of physiotherapists schools of Spain (CGCFE) is the body that represents more than 40,000 physiotherapists, in Spain, dealing with the common goal of promoting the health of citizens. In addition, orders the profession, guardianship the interests of physiotherapy, as well as its optimal implementation and universalization.

Physiotherapists are health professionals, as foreseen in existing legislation, accredited with the University degree in physical therapy, taught at 43 universities and holders of knowledge and skills designed to benefit the health of the population. Furthermore, there is a greater number of doctorates and masters, to ensure their high qualification.