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US, medical
the treatment of a disease or an injury of the muscles or joints with massage, strengthening movements, heat, etc.
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Recent Examples of physical therapy
Her dance team performances were supplanted with physical therapy, and high school classrooms replaced with sterile examination rooms.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 22 Mar. 2025
Stop doing physical therapy exercises for sciatica if your pain increases.
—Aubrey Bailey, Pt, Dpt, Cht, Verywell Health, 14 Mar. 2025
Exercises to Avoid When performing physical therapy exercises for pain from sciatica, avoid overdoing it.
—Aubrey Bailey, Pt, Dpt, Cht, Verywell Health, 14 Mar. 2025
The symptoms are often manageable with medication and physical therapy.
—Jennifer Steinhoff, Verywell Health, 13 Mar. 2025
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 22 Mar. 2025
Stop doing physical therapy exercises for sciatica if your pain increases.
—Aubrey Bailey, Pt, Dpt, Cht, Verywell Health, 14 Mar. 2025
Exercises to Avoid When performing physical therapy exercises for pain from sciatica, avoid overdoing it.
—Aubrey Bailey, Pt, Dpt, Cht, Verywell Health, 14 Mar. 2025
The symptoms are often manageable with medication and physical therapy.
—Jennifer Steinhoff, Verywell Health, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for physical therapy
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Phishing scams often trick victims into revealing sensitive information through fake emails or websites, while data breaches expose vast amounts of personal data that criminals can exploit for fraudulent activities.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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This cohort makes for a super sweet gift (easter basket toppers, anyone?), or, as a does-it-all activity for a DIY spa night with the besties.—
Annie Blackman,
Allure,
10 Apr. 2025
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By sharing her experience, Hay hopes to educate others and show the positive results that are possible by being consistent with physiotherapy exercises.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Apr. 2025
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While the pneumonia infection has been successfully treated, Francis will continue to take oral medication for quite some time to treat the fungal infection in his lungs and continue his respiratory and physical physiotherapy.—
Danielle Wallace,
Fox News,
23 Mar. 2025
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Clark pushed his players hard with VO2 max tests and two-mile runs, among other conditioning drills.—
Jay King,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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In Landeskog’s conditioning debut with the AHL’s Colorado Eagles on Friday, the man wasted no time getting in everybody’s hair.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
12 Apr. 2025
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Some of them feature innovative exercise equipment such as the Kinesis Personal, a high-tech device that offers a variety of exercises to improve strength, flexibility, coordination, and balance through a personalized workout.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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The first hour to 90 minutes is on individual skill, and the last 90 minutes to two hours is a full team workout.—
Joe Vardon,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2025
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Patients with desk jobs are usually back to work within a week or two, but have to abstain from exercise until cleared by their surgeon.—
Jolene Edgar,
Allure,
10 Apr. 2025
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This whole exercise of proving the absence of antisemitism as a prerequisite to criticizing Israeli government policy is absurd.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Physical therapy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/physical%20therapy. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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