Kinezytherapy includes all issues related to the treatment of movement. The basis of the exercises are of a edicinal r therapeutic exercises. Movement as a therapeutic agent has the ability to affect all organs of our body. The main indication for the use of movement as a therapeutic agent is the finding of impaired fitness unit. The tasks of physiotherapy so you should return to full fitness, if this is possible in a given ailment, or the maximum physical fitness in cases of chronic diseases and leaving some changes irreversible “(Kazimiera Milanowska” Kinezytherapy “, ed. VI, PZWL, Warsaw 2006, p. 9).
The basis for kinesiotherapy are various types of physical exercises are designed to remove a physical disability or if it is not fully possible to adapt the widest possible autonomy. In addition to the various types of exercises acting on the body topically (eg. Passive exercises or in relieving) or whole (eg. Gymnastics general keep-fit, exercises in water), for kinezytherapy includes all kinds of special methods in physiotherapy / methods of kinesitherapy (eg. Kinesiology taping, PNF , Structural Bodywork, Myofascial Relaxation, McKenzie, Cyriax, Kaltenborn and others).
Based on: Straburzyńska-Lupa A., G. Straburzyński, “Physiotherapy”, 3rd ed, PZWL, Warsaw 2007, p.5