Physiotherapy services
- Service
- 27 municipalities
- Public service
Physiotherapy improves and helps maintain health and the ability to move and function.
You might need physiotherapy due to an illness or a sequela, congenital disability, accident or the lowering of the functional ability due to ageing.
With physiotherapy, the main focus point is individual guidance and advice. The physiotherapist will give you personal instructions for independent exercising.
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Do the following
Once you have a referral, you can contact the physiotherapy services of your municipality of residence. To get a referral, contact the health and social services centre of your municipality of residence.
You may also get a referral for the physiotherapy for working age people and the elderly from occupational health care or the school or student health care. You may get a referral for children's physiotherapy also from the child welfare clinic or the school health care.
To whom and on what terms
In order to get physiotherapy, you need a referral from a physician at the health and social services centre, school and student health care or another service provider in the public health care.
Background information
Physiotherapy is a form of medical rehabilitation whose aim is to relieve pain and improve the patient’s ability to exercise, function and work. Physiotherapy is based on patient interviews, examinations and clinical decisions. Physiotherapy includes guidance, counselling, therapeutic exercises and manual therapy.
Physiotherapy is used to treat e.g. musculoskeletal pain and various sports and strain injuries. The treatment places special emphasis on the patient’s own activity.
The physiotherapist examines the patient’s posture, assesses their mobility and tries to find the cause of the issue. They prepare a training programme for the patient and guide and counsel them in completing the exercises. The physiotherapist also assesses the progress of the treatment during each visit.