"physical assistance" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to providing help in a physical form such as helping to lift something or providing medical aid. Example: Many people require physical assistance to complete everyday tasks.
Some children might also have limitations in head and trunk control and so may have required assisted technology and physical assistance.
Service robot systems add to assisted environments besides the aspect of hard physical assistance capabilities with flexibility, increased intelligence and situational awareness and provide new ways of intuitive man-machine-interaction.
She is appalled that I let Singer provide even minor physical assistance at the dinner.
Health officials said funding to aged care providers was provided in three streams: behavioural assistance, physical assistance and complex care needs.
Beneath them are Señor C's accounts of his transactions with Anya, who (like Marijana, the Croatian nurse who cares for Paul Rayment in "Slow Man") provides at least as much psychic as physical assistance.
"I've never known anything else," says Sarah, who is now 18 and who continues to do everything from general household chores to helping with medication, providing physical assistance, filling in forms and many other day-to-day jobs.
Relatively new subcategories of "service" animals have been designated to provide humans with, not only physical assistance (as guide dogs do) but with therapy — emotional, psychiatric and therapeutic support.
Only at these early stages of the Olympic Games could a runner win the marathon after falling repeatedly and running in the wrong direction (he was later disqualified due to the physical assistance he received from a megaphone-toting man in a boater hat, above).
Another $18 million went for special education costs like medical supplies, or for aides to help teachers in special classes -- by controlling behavior, providing physical assistance in getting around, or working individually with disabled children to help interpret what teachers were saying.
Constantly reminding him of her illness — "When you're crippled, you can have your own remote control" — she smothers him with demands, for food, for physical assistance, for him to fill out an application to the nearby state university at Stony Brook.
An important issue in providing effective physical assistance is how the needed torques can be generated efficiently and effectively.
