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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
physiotherapy
noun
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▪ Consulting suites, physiotherapy and hydrotherapy units.
▪ It's likely she could face lengthy physiotherapy and recovery may be slow.
▪ Like most Guillain-Barré syndrome patients, he required maximal nursing, medical and physiotherapy care but did not need sedation.
▪ Peter's wife, Meg, runs her own physiotherapy practice.
▪ She receives physiotherapy three or four times a week and is regularly visited by the district nurse.
▪ She was discharged from the rehabilitation centre, and returned to the original hospital for out-patient physiotherapy treatment.
▪ Sussexdown is a happy place, run by caring staff who provide a full 24-hour nursing service, physiotherapy and occupational therapy.
▪ The ground floor of the new building will accommodate physiotherapy and hydrotherapy departments, orthopaedic clinic and an x-ray room.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
physiotherapy

1905, from physio- + therapy. Related: Physiotherapist.

Wiktionary
physiotherapy

n. therapy that uses physical techniques such as massage, ultrasound, heat, and exercise

WordNet
physiotherapy

n. therapy that uses physical agents: exercise and massage and other modalities [syn: physical therapy, physiatrics]

Wikipedia
Physiotherapy (journal)

Physiotherapy is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal. It was established in 1915 and is published by Elsevier on behalf of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.

Usage examples of "physiotherapy".

They had reached the side door leading to the physiotherapy department.

Green shared a complicated schedule of duty for another thirty-six hours before he was pronounced out of danger and needed physiotherapy only morning and evening, so that he could be fitted in with her other ward cases.

It seemed to her that the entire hospital was disintegrating about them, although, since the bomb had been a small one, it was only the physiotherapy department which was torn apart, subsiding into piles of debris.

There was the girl for theatre, a handful of patients for X-ray and physiotherapy, patients to be got up and put to bed again, teas, medicines and a pile of tiresome little chores to do in the office.

Harry would be round presently and there were several patients to go to X-ray, quite a few for physiotherapy and two to be got ready to go home.

True, the girl from Physiotherapy had bags under her eyes and Harry was a little pale, but Mr Grenfell looked exactly as he always did, not a well groomed hair out of place, not a speck on his well cut suit, and since his eyelids drooped over his eyes anyway, it was impossible to tell if he was tired or not.

I had never been up there, but Danielle had described his rooms as a mini-hospital, with besides his bedroom and sitting room, a physiotherapy room and a room for a male nurse.

When he was feeling a little stronger he went to physiotherapy for his hip and damaged left leg.

He knew his witness was barely able to walk, would need nursing and physiotherapy to recover his strength.

One of the conditions was daily attendance at a Kensington physiotherapy centre.

He should have been in the hospital right now, surrounded by state-of-the-art twenty-first-century technology, beginning a program of physiotherapy and recuperation, not stuck in the corner of this stinking tent.

But anyhow, Moodmaster is a simple physiotherapy engine that monitors bloodstream chemicals and body electricity.

As we passed each door Jenkins sang out the name of it: dining-room, association room, quiet room, classroom, library, physiotherapy, electro-convulsive therapy.

In August, during one of his physiotherapy sessions, Alex was put into a standing position on a tilt table.

Like Goolagong-Cawley, to succeed, Freeman has had to become tunnel-visioned, her life a succession of training, travelling, competing, gymnasium, massage, physiotherapy, media, sponsorship appearances, exhaustion and sleep.