What is physiotherapy?

It is one of the medical specialties that was early defined as the diagnosis and treatment of disability and disease by natural means. There is another modern definition taken from Dr. Thelma Holmes, Associate Professor in the curricula of Physiotherapy at the University of Florida, which is:
Physiotherapy is the art and science that contributes to the development of health and preventing disease through understanding body movement. It works on correcting and mitigating the effects of illness and injury. The methods of this kind of thereby include evaluation and treatment of patients, management and supervision of natural treatment services and the working staff, consulting with other health systems, preparing records and reports, participating in community planning, projects and future plans and evaluating the educational programs.

In order to make physiotherapist able to provide full service and scientific proper care for patients, they should work according to high standards and high level of understanding with the doctors and specialists in physiotherapy and social services.


The need for Physiotherapy

The need for Physiotherapy in the different areas of health continuously increases; much more than of what can be supplied of qualified personnel in this area. There are many reasons and factors for this, some of them are mentioned below:

1 - Rapid advances in medical knowledge and in applying Physiotherapy in the prevention and treatment of increased and diversified cases.

2 – Increasing knowledge of the problems of chronic diseases and physical and mental disabilities, which resulted in the rapid extension of health care programs including rehabilitation training for all age groups?

3 – The development of Physiotherapy programs at the local and international levels in the health departments because of updating health care systems all over the world.

4 - Increasing knowledge and understanding that the care of chronic patients requires specific and specialized methods that take into account the psychological, social, educational and professional aspects of the medical condition.

5 - The increasing needs and demands of educational programs for advisory and educational services from the therapy specialist.

Physiotherapy is an integral part of the health and medical care programs that plays a vital role in maintaining the health of the individual as well as the society. The physiotherapists contribute through their professional activities to the prevention and evaluation of disability and severe disability. In the field of public health, physiotherapists perform duties that include planning, organizing, evaluating, clarifying, coordinating and applying programs of physiotherapy and advising professionals and workers of other organizations. They contribute to the development of the social concept of health studies and do these studies for the community...