Therapy facts for kids

Therapy, in the medical field also called treatment, is what people do to try to solve or care for a health problem, physical or mental. When a person is ill or injured, a doctor may make a medical diagnosis and then recommend a therapy to try to make the person well. The therapy can be, for example, medications (drugs), surgery or a change of diet.

A person who does therapy as a job is called a therapist. There are many kinds of therapists. for example:

• Group therapist
• Hypnotherapist
• Occupational therapist
• Physiotherapist
• Psychotherapist
• Speech therapist

Therapeutic effects

Medical treatments may have four results:

• No effect at all.
• A therapeutic effect is a good result.
• An adverse effect is a bad result.
• A side-effect is an unwanted effect from therapy. For example, taking medications as tablets or injections may cause many sorts of side-effects. Examples are headaches, nausea, rash, constipation, blurred vision and others. Radiotherapy can also cause side effects of nausea, rash on the skin, and vomiting, for example.

Related pages

• Chemotherapy
• Medicine
• Medication
• Pharmacotheraphy
• Radiotherapy

See also

In Spanish: Tratamiento (medicina) para niños