Physical Therapy or Physiotherapy Is a Medical Profession?

Physical Therapy or Physiotherapy Is a Medical Profession?!

Physiotherapy is playing an important role in every phase of the life. It is not just a massaging treatment but a field containing many branches.

Hippocrates

 A person who graduates in BPT bachelor of physiotherapy or in MPT master of physiotherapy can treat a patient. A physiotherapist should know every week points of the patient  and should be able to solve the issue . Physicians like HIPPOCRATES and later GALEN

are believed to have been the first practitioners of physical therapy, advocating massage, manual therapy techniques and hydrotherapy to treat people in 460 BC.

Galen

A physiotherapist should be a good friend and a motivator, he can make the patient strong both physically and mentally. Physical therapy addresses the illnesses or injuries that limit a person's abilities to move and perform functional activities in their daily lives. PTs use an individual's history and physical examination to arrive at a  diagnosis and establish a management plan and, when necessary, incorporate the results of laboratory and imaging studies like X-rays, CT-scan, or MRI findings. Electrodiagnostic testing (e.g., electromyograms and nerve conduction velocity testing) may also be used

 

A systematic review that included patients with brain injury, musculoskeletal conditions, cardiac conditions, or multiple pathologies found that the alliance between patient and therapist positively correlates with treatment outcome. Outcomes include ability to perform activities of daily living, manage pain, complete specific physical function tasks, depression, global assessment of physical health, treatment adherence, and treatment satisfaction.

In addition to clinical practice, other aspects of physical therapist practice include research, education, consultation and health administration. Physical therapy is provided as a care treatment or alongside or in conjunction with other medical services. In some jurisdictions, such as the United Kingdom, physical therapists have the authority to prescribe medication.

Physical therapy has been found to be effective for improving outcomes, both in terms of pain and function, in multiple musculoskeletal conditions. 2012 systematic review found evidence to support the use of spinal manipulation by physical therapists as a safe option to improve outcomes for lower back pain according to randomized control trials, a combination of manual therapy and supervised exercise therapy by physiotherapists give functional benefits for patients with osteoarthritis of the knee, and may delay or even prevent the need for surgery

Physical therapy is a professional career which has many specialties including musculoskeletal, cardiopulmonary, neurology, endocrinology, sports medicine, geriatrics, women’s health, wound care, electromyography neurological rehabilitation is in particular a rapidly emerging field. PTs practice in many settings, such as private-owned physical therapy clinics, outpatient clinics or offices, health and wellness clinics, rehabilitation hospitals facilities, skilled nursing facilities, extended care facilities, private homes, education and research centers ,schools, hospices, , industrial and this workplaces or other occupational environments, fitness centers and sports training  facilities. 

WOUND TREATMENT

Now physiotherapy is dealing with all problems related to the body. This field of medicine reduces the intake of tablets and gives specific instructions for the recovery and gives more importance to exercises. The world Physical Therapy Day is on 8th September every year. The day is an opportunity for the physiotherapists from all over the world to raise awareness about the contribution the profession makes to keep people well, mobile and independent.