Imagine the inability to physically walk or do so without pain, or sit, or carry out any kind of daily routine without any kind of constant complications. If a person has been injured, was born with a disability, or has had a disability due to aging, there is a way to help treat many complications. Participating in a physical therapy rehabilitation program can help heal an injury with appropriate and safe exercises to strengthen and prevent further injury or by teaching you to change your mechanics, which in turn will create a better way to manage your daily routine safely and proactive. Physical therapy can also help prevent or reduce disorders such as the developmental effects of many genetic diseases, congenital disabilities, or disabilities due to aging. Physical therapy is a rehabilitation program with the goal of assisting in recovery from surgeries and injuries and promoting correct mechanical and motor functions; relieve pain and restore and maintain physical mobility, strength and quality of life. Physical therapy provides services to individuals and populations to develop, maintain, and restore maximal movement and functional capacity across the lifespan. This includes providing services in circumstances where movement and function are threatened by aging, injury, disease, disorder, condition or environmental factor. Functional movement is central to what it means to be healthy (Bates). Physical therapy as a profession began in the late 1800s and early 1900s as a way to help rehabilitate patients with polio, which first affected children in the United States in 1894. Then women were recruited during World War I to work and restore function and mobility...... center of paper ......activity with proper mechanics, safely so that no further injury occurred. Mainly educate people to change their movements and posture. This proves my point by stating a specific technique used to help improve the way you go about your daily activities. National Institutes of Health. "Sports injuries". NIAMS.com. National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. Network. April 21, 2012. .This is a booklet that mentions many sports-related injuries and describes many causes of many injuries and what are the appropriate ways to treat and therefore prevent future injuries. This helps prove my point by providing a lot of information on many injuries that are inflicted on athletes and then describing how physical therapy can aid in recovery through strength, flexibility, etc...