Physiotherapist are health care professionals who diagnose and treat individuals of all ages,from new borns to the very oldest ,who have medical problems or other health related conditions that limits their abilities to move and perform functional activities in their daily lives.
Physiotherapist examine each individual and develop a plan using treatment techniques to promote the ability to move,reduce pain,restore function and prevent disability.ln addition ,physiotherapist work with individual to prevent the loss of mobility before it accours by developing fitness and wellness oriented programs for healtheir and move active lifestyles .
Physicaltherapist provide care for people in a variety of settings ,including hospitals,private practice,outpatient clinics,home health agencies ,schools,sports and fitness facilities,worksettings and nursing homes.
Physical therapy is a dianamic profession with an established theoretical and scientific based and widespread clinical applications in the restoration,maintenance and promotion of optimal physical functions.physiotherapist :
1) Diagnose and manage movement dysfunction and enhance physical and functional abilities.
2)Restore,maintain and promote not only optimal function but optimal wellness and fitness and optimal quality of life as it relates to movement and health.
3)Prevent the onset symptoms and progression of impairment,functional limitations and disabilities that may result from disease,disorder,conditions or injuries.
As essential participants in health care delivery system,physiotherapist assume leader ship role in rehabilitation in prevention,health maintenance and programs that promote health,wellness and fitness and in professional and community organizations.Physiotherapist also play important role both in developing standard for physiotherapist practice and developing healthcare policy to ensure availability, accessbility and optimal delivery of health care services physical therapy is covered by federal state and private insurance plans.Physiotherapist services have a possitive impact on health related quality of life.
As clinicians,physiotherapist engage in an examination process that includes:
1)Taking the patient history .
2)Conducting a system review and performing test and measure to identify potential and existing problems.
To establish diagnoses, prognosis and plans of care,physiotherapist performs evolution,synthesizing the examination data and determining whether the problems to be addressed are within the scope of physiotherapist practice.Based on their judgements about diagosisand prognosis and based on patient goals,physiotherapist :
1)Provide intervention (the interactions and procedure used in managing and instructing patient)
2)Conduct re-examination
3)Modify intervention as necessary to achieve anticipated goals and expected outcomes.
4)Develop and implement discharge plans.
In the last I want to say that;
Physiotherapist as a profession,
as a service has so much to offer,
Yet is so underutilised by the
system ...We need to think
differently.We need to think
about keeping people out of
hospitals and,if not,about
getting them through the system
quicker.
