Physiotherapy is a very
diverse profession that can identify human movement as key to health and
well-being of patient. They promote preventive healthcare and have expertise
not only in treating joint /spinal problems but can address posture, balance
and gait related discrepancies. The horizon is far
bigger and brighter. Physiotherapist can also help the elderly patients to stay
safe and avoid the number of falls, they encounter. They are able to give a specific multi-component exercise programme that has been proved to reduce falls among community-dwelling older people. |
Journal of Physiotherapy & Sports Medicine > Articles & Issues > JOPSM June 2013 Volume 2, Issue 1 >