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# physiotherapy

«physiotherapy» in Mova's school dictionary: **treatment that helps people heal and move better using…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (physiotherapy — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

Physiotherapy is treatment that helps people heal and move better using exercises, stretching, massage and sometimes heat or cold, not medicine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/physiotherapy/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life people have physiotherapy after a broken bone, a sports injury or an operation; in science and health lessons it shows how muscles and joints get stronger with practice. Phrases: have physiotherapy, physiotherapy sessions, a course of physiotherapy.

### examples

- After breaking her leg, Mia had physiotherapy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/physiotherapy/#x1)
- Physiotherapy helped Grandad walk again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/physiotherapy/#x2)
- I go to physiotherapy on Thursdays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/physiotherapy/#x3)
- Physiotherapy exercises can be hard work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/physiotherapy/#x4)
- The swimmer needed physiotherapy for her shoulder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/physiotherapy/#x5)
- Her physiotherapy took six weeks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/physiotherapy/#x6)

### note

Uncountable: no «a», no plural («a physiotherapy session» is fine). Short form «physio». In the USA: «physical therapy».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «physiotherapy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/physiotherapy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.