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Füsioteraapia Kliinik OÜ
Address: Veerenni 51, 2nd floor, Tallinn
Reg.nr. 12149635
Swedbank: EE082200221053152027
Operating Licence: L06512
What is musculoskeletal physiotherapy?
- Specialised treatment for problems related to muscles, joints, bones, and tendons
- Helps relieve pain, restore mobility, and improve muscle strength
- Uses exercise therapy (a personalised exercise program for recovery or injury prevention), manual therapy, taping, and physical modalities
- Focuses on both acute injuries (e.g. sprains, strains) and chronic conditions (e.g. lower back pain, osteoarthritis)
- Suitable for people of all ages – from athletes to office workers
How does it help you?
Reduces pain and tension – get back to daily life faster
Teaches your body to move correctly – helps prevent recurring issues
Restores joint and muscle function – natural movement without limitations
Supports athletic performance and recovery
Personalised approach – every plan is tailored to your needsBOOK AN APPOINTMENT FOR
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Physiotherapy – Not Just for Injury Recovery
Katre Lust-Mardna
Füsioteraapia Kliinik
SPORT Magazine
The days are fading when the profession of physiotherapy was associated merely with massage or physical therapy treatments. Growing waiting lists show that more and more people are finding their way to physiotherapists.
By definition, a physiotherapist is a top-level healthcare professional in the field of rehabilitation. Their task is to preserve or restore impaired movement and functional ability, and through that, help people return to their everyday life and work environments – including sports and training settings.
To achieve this, a physiotherapist has a wide array of tools: physical exercises, posture therapy, various manual therapy techniques, physical therapy modalities, and the increasingly popular kinesiology taping, among others. A physiotherapist’s role also includes adapting assistive devices, ranging from simple orthoses and compression garments for sports to aids that help manage better at home. One of the main goals is to improve patients’ quality of life.
Physiotherapist’s guidance can benefit people of all ages. In a large hospital, while rotating through departments, a physiotherapist might work with a pregnant woman, a premature baby, an office worker with neck pain, an enthusiastic recreational athlete, or a vibrant 92-year-old lady in a long-term care facility.
Injury Prevention
Nowadays, there is increasing focus on injury prevention. Active and athletic individuals should definitely consider visiting a physiotherapist proactively. Together with the physiotherapist, you can review muscle groups that are not a primary focus in training and don’t play a major role in competitive situations but are important for overall health and to avoid painful areas. This aspect is especially important for young developing athletes, who increasingly visit physiotherapists due to overuse problems.
After taking a medical history, the physiotherapist conducts a thorough assessment, evaluating factors such as posture, joint mobility, muscle strength and flexibility, as well as pain and swelling indicators. This objective assessment is important not only for reaching a diagnosis but also for later evaluating the effectiveness of the treatment. The patient receives a physiotherapy diagnosis and a treatment plan, which usually includes individually tailored therapeutic exercises, manual therapy techniques, and sometimes taping or other methods.
A Popular Profession
What Made Physiotherapy the Most Popular Specialty Among University of Tartu Applicants in 2014?
There are certainly many reasons why as many as 11 applicants competed for just one spot. The field is considered promising, as an aging population increasingly requires medical assistance.
Physiotherapists are in demand in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, gyms, kindergartens and schools, nursing and care homes, rehabilitation centers for people with disabilities, private practices, assistive device and orthotics centers, spas, and numerous health-related institutions. In more forward-thinking large companies, an occupational physiotherapist helps monitor employee ergonomics and musculoskeletal health.
Physiotherapists often have more time for each patient than doctors do, and the positive effects of their work can often be seen as early as the first visit. Although using manual techniques can be physically demanding, the work is usually active and mobile, and the knowledge gained helps maintain the therapist’s own health.
Daily interaction and working with a wide range of people makes the job interesting and usually prevents monotony. Grateful patients who return to work or sports are a truly motivating force — something rarely experienced in most professions.
When to Seek Help?
If acute sports injuries require an initial visit to an orthopedist, then for various slowly developing musculoskeletal overload syndromes, the first visit should ideally be to a physiotherapist. These overload syndromes include, for example, chronic pain in the cervical and lumbar spine, long-term pain in the shoulder, knee, and hip joints, as well as the ankle joint. Physiotherapists can usually help with different muscle tensions, with patients most commonly troubled by tension in the neck and shoulder area.
Patients are also welcome preoperatively—before surgeries—since recovery is aided by learning how to use crutches and mastering basic exercises before going to the operating table. Every office worker could benefit from spending an hour in a physiotherapist’s office to learn how to make office life and prolonged sitting less stressful on the body.
If the problem seems more serious, a physiotherapist can recommend that the patient see an orthopedist. Private physiotherapy practices may not have contracts with the national health insurance, and services may be paid, but waiting times are shorter than for specialists, allowing musculoskeletal treatment to begin sooner. An advantage of paid physiotherapy is often that the visit to a general practitioner can be avoided, who would otherwise refer the patient to an orthopedist or rheumatologist, who then refers to a rehabilitation doctor, after which a separate wait for physiotherapy appointments begins.
It is advisable to see a physiotherapist as soon as possible after an injury, as well as for slowly developing overuse problems.
Here are some simplified real-life examples:
Case 1
Achilles Tendon Rupture
A 29-year-old man injured his Achilles tendon while playing basketball, and a complete rupture required surgical intervention. The patient only began looking for rehabilitation options after the removal of his walking boot six weeks later, and he reached a physiotherapist almost ten weeks after surgery. By that time, the operated leg’s muscles were severely atrophied, ankle mobility was significantly limited in all directions, core muscles had lost tone, and the patient had gained several kilograms. Although he eventually regained his condition, the delayed start of rehabilitation can significantly prolong recovery. If therapy had begun a week after surgery, many of these problems could have been less troublesome and the return to normal daily life would have been faster. The same applies to ankle injuries such as ligament injuries or fractures around the ankle. During therapy, the patient mentioned that he had actually experienced warning pain in the Achilles tendon for quite some time. It is possible that timely physiotherapeutic intervention and muscle care could have prevented the tendon rupture altogether.
Case 2
Knee Pain
A 36-year-old woman preparing for a marathon started spring running training with somewhat too intense and long distances. After a while, she began experiencing pain in her right knee, which worsened when climbing stairs, squatting, and sometimes after sitting for long periods. After consulting both a general practitioner and an orthopedist, she visited a physiotherapist and was diagnosed with “runner’s knee.” During the physiotherapeutic assessment, weakness was found in the muscles stabilizing the knee joint, tension in the iliotibial tract and the back of the thigh, and her core muscles also needed toning. After a course of physiotherapy and reviewing her training loads, she successfully completed the autumn marathon and continues to include individually prescribed exercises from the physiotherapist in her training plan to prevent the problem from recurring.
Case 3
Lower Back Pain
A 41-year-old former track and field athlete had a sedentary job, and his past intense training combined with the current passive working posture had left its mark on his lower back. He suffered from periodically worsening lower back pain and rapid fatigue while sitting. An MRI ruled out the need for surgical intervention by a neurosurgeon. His general practitioner gave him exercises recommended by a pharmaceutical company for the lower back, but they seemed too simple. Massage therapy did not help either. Since exercise was supposed to benefit the back, the former athlete began going to the gym independently and recalled some high-intensity core strengthening exercises from his youth, using barbells and weights. The pain flare-up eventually brought him to the physiotherapist, where individualized exercise plans and properly adjusted loads made his lower back pain-free.
Exercises must be done consistently, and those who want to help themselves usually benefit the most from physiotherapy.
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Füsioteraapia Kliinik OÜ is a company established in 2011, whose specialists are recognised Estonian sports physiotherapists.
The clinic’s specialists help find solutions to various musculoskeletal system problems, whether it’s pain limiting daily activities or sports, decreased muscle performance, restricted joint mobility, or other issues.
In practice, the most common reasons for consulting a physiotherapist are muscle tension, pain in the lower back and neck area, as well as painful shoulder and knee joints.
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Registrikood: 12149635
Swedbank: EE082200221053152027
Operating Licence: L06512
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