Scope of Physiotherapy in Today's World
Physiotherapy is a challenging and an interesting facet of the health care sector in today's society, aiming at prevention, cure and rehabilitation of physical dysfunctions in patients without medicines.
Incorporating examination, diagnosis, treatment, and advice, in their toolbox, physiotherapy is making a paradigm shift with advancements in treatment strategies like taping, dry needling and visceral manipulations to name a few. These in combination with Exercise therapy, manual therapy, electrotherapy, rehabilitation techniques and advice form the catalog of a “Physiotherapist's prescription”
With a broad spectrum of specializations, like orthopedics, neurology, and psychosomatic disorders, cardiopulmonary, sports injuries, gynecology, and obstetrics, geriatrics, oncology and ergonomics, physiotherapy has widespread services to offer. Physiotherapists deal with a variety of conditions ranging from movement dysfunction, physical disorders, and disabilities, pain from trauma & disease, physical & mental conditions to maintaining fitness, Physiotherapists play an integral role to help restore the patient's body to its optimal functioning level and the societal rehabilitation. Apart from clinical practice, a physiotherapist can further upscale their career in the field of clinical research and fetch a doctorate degree.
With the rise of industrialization and mechanization, there is a definite impact both positive and negative on people lifestyle; this has simultaneously increased the demand and scope of physiotherapy in India and abroad.
Physiotherapists are also the key healthcare members in the prevention of injuries among
the athletes, employees of the software, and entertainment industry.
From being available at a government-run hospital to private hospitals, rehabilitation centers to privatized clinics, sports academies to corporate companies, a physiotherapist's presence is much valued and appreciated in today's time. To the state simply, from the time you' reborn till you age, in different phases of life, physiotherapy offers its support in every frame of a human's timeline.
Dr.Ashwitha Atoori
M.P.T [Musculoskeletal disorders & Sports Injuries], CMT, CKTP
Chief Physiotherapist & Founder
LalithaBardinarayan's Physiotherapy: Physio Healing
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