WHAT IS PHYSIOTHERAPY
Physiotherapy is a health science that deals with the human being. According to the World Confederation of Physiotherapy (WCPT), physiotherapy helps to regain movement and function in patients affected by injury, disease or disability.
Physiotherapists are health professionals who, together with the treating physician and the entire multidisciplinary team, participate in the treatment plan for the patient's rehabilitation. It is based on the use of natural methods and means of rehabilitation such as movement, water, electricity and magnetic field.
Physiotherapy is based on the principle of using physical methods and techniques to treat problems that affect the quality of life and daily living.
Physiotherapy is applicable to patients of all medical specialties (Orthopaedics (or Orthopedics), Neurology, General Surgery, General Surgery, Neurosurgery, Cardiac Surgery, Pediatrics, Pulmonology, Pediatrics, Urology, etc.).
The sometimes appearing word "physiotherapy" is a linguistic error, does not orientate to a different entity and most likely arose as an antonym from the prevailing English word Physiotherapy = "Physiotherapy". The term Physiotherapy is not a linguistic error, it was chosen by the association's management to avoid cases of misrepresentation of the profession by empirical practitioners who argued that they were not misrepresenting the profession but something different from Physiotherapy.
For centuries man has used the properties of the sun, movement and water to cure his ailments. However, physiotherapy developed into an independent therapeutic branch mainly after World War I and more so after World War II due to the presence of a large number of people with severe disabilities caused by war injuries on the one hand and on the other hand by a severe infectious disease, polio, for which no protective vaccination was carried out until about 1960.
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