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One of the main areas that physiotherapy focuses on is the treatment of conditions and injuries that affect the bones and joints. In particular, physiotherapists often help patients who are recovering from orthopaedic surgery (surgery to correct damage to or deformities of the bones or joints).

Physiotherapists may treat people who have had a heart attack; chronic obstructive pul- monary disease (COPD); cystic fibrosis

Physiotherapists can help people with conditions that affect the brain and nervous system, such as stroke; multiple sclerosis; Parkinson’s disease; cerebral palsy; spina bifida.

Physiotherapists treat children with musculoskeletal conditions (which affect the bones and muscles).