Here we are again facing another topic .... I think it is soft to devote themselves aware of the differences between our profession and that of the physiotherapist because sometimes (I would say often) do not even know us and even the professors who teach in our graduate courses (generic speech, I am not referring to anyone in particular).
The fundamental point is that the intervention period.
When can and must intervene Physiotherapist? Answer: In phase acute! When
may intervene in the graduate Sciences or Sciences and techniques of preventive and adapted physical activities ? After one year from the acute phase (ie in non-acute phase).
What does this mean?
I will explain with a small example that shows you how things should ideally go:
Mrs. Pina breaks her hip, went to the hospital (emergency room, orthopedic, etc.), does physical therapy, go to the gym to keep your job on by physiotherapy.
Too bad this does not always happen: usually after physical therapy is recommended to the patient (who now becomes a customer) to continue the exercises at home (90 times out of 100 that will never be done). In this way possible effects so that the subject must again undergo a course of treatment and physiotherapy and so on ad infinitum. sometimes it happens that the person recovers completely and has no more relapses, lucky man!
The ring is therefore incomplete without our intervention, not the fault of the physiotherapists, often they do not know that we exist, do not know that there are gyms where people work in the maintenance of specialized capabilities acquired by physiotherapy. I want her to think so and I do not believe that they will not specifically recommend the subject to attend a gym.
summary physiotherapists have a duty to restore the ADL (activities of daily living), we have the task of developing the ALDA or advanced activities of daily life: we must keep the core business and allow the subject of more or less ambitious goals such as recovering the physical performance in view of sports, or allow to be able to do the job (which place the subject before the accident / injury) again in an efficient manner, etc. ...
Also we can act on primary prevention or preventing the occurrence of bone diseases, metabolic or cardiac in individuals with risk factors for these diseases. We also take care of secondary prevention, or one that prevents a person who has already suffered damage, relapse (stroke, heart attacks, fractures etc.)
who, like us, has the ability to monitor hundreds of people every day and understand through our knowledge base in terms of pathology, that the subject might have something wrong as it should: we can address the subject specialist from the right and then by the same physiotherapist to the person concerned without wasting time? None! This happens for one simple reason: in the gym a lot more people that come in a medical surgery and especially these people are healthy or not know they are at risk for some disease.
Being able to interpret the signs and symptoms of the disease, blood tests, x-rays, the CT scans, MRIs, ultrasound scans and the most diverse medical reports, but they are not entitled to make a diagnosis, if the customer has a situation that we face is not allowed, please immediately contact the person to the specialist they need or simply by the doctor (we can not make a diagnosis but often, what we thought would be really turns out to be).
Another difference is that the physiotherapist can work in ASL or privately, and we only PRIVATE or schools. This allows me to touch on another issue that concerns my profession and my degree in particular: my course of study requires that I fall into that cycle of which I spoke before (an injury-medical-graduate physiotherapist Sc.Mt .) but we are not actually health professionals, so we are not under contract as employees ASL ... The question arises: but if we are not provided for in the ASL and there is no communication with them in that they do not inform the person to continue their journey of healing he should be required to go to the gym, how do we exert the function and the role for which we specialize?? The answer is by itself .... (This is not to say that should be recognized as health professionals but at least there should be some collaboration).
What I explain in this post is that we and the physiotherapists we are two complementary but very different figures, they are involved in acute care and rehabilitation and the rehabilitation of the patient, and we act now when the acute phase has ended and we take care of business motor adapted to the specific needs of the subject if this is disabled, or more generally to the maintenance, reinforcement and development of skills and motor skills acquired by the person during the period of rehabilitation physiotherapy!
Or at least, I behave this way (although we know that some of us do the work of physiotherapists and some of them are ours, but this role reversal will continue until our professions will be confused!).
conclude with an appeal to my fellow therapists: unity is strength, let us unite and our rights are finally respected! PS
Links Sciences and techniques of sport and Management of sport and physical activities because I have not spoken directly since they are not specialized in these branches are not able to speak in a depth.
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