physical therapy

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   therapy that uses physical agents: exercise and massage and other modalities

   Synonymsphysiotherapyphysiatrics

   Broadertherapy

   Narrowerrehabilitation

   Partsmodality

Questions about physical therapy

What does physical therapy mean?

physical therapy means "therapy that uses physical agents: exercise and massage and other modalities".

What is another word for physical therapy?

Close synonyms include physiotherapy, physiatrics. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is physical therapy a common word?

physical therapy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.