Physiotherapy T.v Show..

[Ms PT]

Hey everybody... if you have the chance to present an unconventional T.V show about physiotherapy role and it's importance in life, what would be your vision and ideas for that??

Let's find the most creative member in this forum

[Canuck Physio]

There was a recent article about "Street Doctor's" in the UK, where 5 doctors go around on the street prescribing drugs to random streetwise people who have problems.

Some physio's have suggested that Physiotherapists would be more ideal for solving the largely MSK related issues, which I would definitely agree with.

Anyone else think we should get on the case of Street Physio?

[Ms PT]

Seems great idea

[alophysio]

I would love to see specialist MSK physios in emergency so the back pains, joint sprains, etc etc can be seen by the physio as a second tier triage (after seeing the nurse who will then bump them to the physio). That way, the physio can call the doc if required and the doc can go about solving medical issues rather than MSK ones.

Otherwise the TV concept is a good idea so long as the physio has some control over the presentation

[sdkashif]

You need to visit the sports spots or stadium by letting the atheletes to tell their views, industrial areas to show some occupation issues, showing the statistical data of different hopital and highlighting the different physiotherapy problems will be a great idea to show on TV.

[linbin]

should use such an oppertunity to high light what all benefits people will get via physiotherapy.
prove the point that it is driven by research
can play a major role in industrial sector -by ergonomic intervention and cummulative trauma management

[Judith Mollet]

Don't forget that physios have a large role to play in rehabilitatiion after brain and spinal cord damage. Neurological cases after head injuries, stroke, para/tetraplegic patients, children with cerebral palsy etc. All these problems can happen to all of us if we are unlucky!

[alophysio]

Agreed above - however, we *try* to use as much research as possible.

Unfortunately clinical practice and research are at different stages. There is not nearly enough research to support what we do.

The research that is used against us is often the "no difference between" conclusions. Unfortunately they don't look at the sub-groups.

Therefore physios end up giving exercises to everyone because the general finding is that it helps everyone.

BUT as sophisticated physios, you will all agree that exercises are good for some and not for others etc. Also, if manual therapy helped 40% of people with LBP (as an example), it doesn't mean it is ineffective, it means we have to find out what it is about those 40% that made them respond to physio so we can sub-group them and get 90% of that group better with manual therapy etc etc etc.

The beauty of physio is that we can work in so many areas - cardioresp, neuro, spinal cord injuries, musculoskeletal, sports, fitness, etc etc etc.

[linbin]

hi
i agree with you.physio is a beautiful profession.apart we can work in various specialities.
in each speciality we can try different treatment approaches supported by clinical reasoning

[Ms PT]

Hey everybody thanx for ur interaction...physiotherapy based in research and studies this is fine but how would you tell that to layman.