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The main goal of physiotherapy is to promote mobility, improve participation in daily life, and promote long-term sustainable health. The profession is based on professionalism, a scientific approach, and respect for people's individual needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Physical therapy is a key component of modern healthcare and helps individuals live active, independent, and healthy lives. Today, September 8, is World PT Day. This year, the day is dedicated to cardiovascular disease, stroke, and the role of physical therapists in prevention, education, and rehabilitation following stroke. More \u203a<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-efni","category-tilkynningar"],"modified_by":"JE\u00da","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The Westfjords Health Institute employs six physiotherapists, in \u00cdsafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, Bolungarv\u00edk and Patreksfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. Their work is diverse and includes a specialist in physiotherapy for the elderly and a specialist in physiotherapy for children. The institute's physiotherapists work in nursing homes in the area and in hospital wards, provide individualized treatment in outpatient clinics, and work in home care and health care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Kynningarefni](\"https:\/\/hvest.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/799202549_1507492651408080_6101688762360863895_n-747x1024.jpg\")
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