Deeksha Singh*

Department of Physiotherapy, Hormonalwings, India

*Corresponding Author: Deeksha Singh, Department of Physiotherapy, Hormonalwings, India.

Received: February 03, 2025; Published: March 31, 2025

Abstract

The environment in the space that is international space station is not exactly so friendly to human body system. Thanks to micro gravity or no gravity astronaut experience a lot of health, physical and physiological changes while living there in space some of which they can avoid through daily activities and exercises, but the environment there in space also exposed astronaut to other element that cannot necessarily be mitigate it so our bodies is not built for space as microgravity [1].

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Citation

Citation: Deeksha Singh. “Physiotherapy in Space - Microgravity Motion!".Acta Scientific Orthopaedics 8.4 (2025): 12-17.

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Copyright: © 2025 Deeksha Singh. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.