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As defined in the recently renamed World Physiotherapy website1:
“Physiotherapists provide services that develop, maintain and restore people’s maximum movement and functional ability. They can help people at any stage of life, when movement and function are threatened by ageing, injury, diseases, disorders, conditions or environmental factors.
Physiotherapists help people maximise their quality of life, looking at physical, psychological, emotional and social wellbeing. They work in the health spheres of promotion, prevention, treatment/intervention, and rehabilitation.”
I like to think Physiotherapists guide people in regaining the ability to do the things they like to do. In the many areas physiotherapist can intervene in accordance with this aim, I’ve become interested mostly in musculoskeletal health.
Even though musculoskeletal conditions are not one of the main conditions associated with disability worldwide, according to the 2011 WHO World Report on Disability2, puts noncommunicable chronic diseases as the second main causes of disability worldwide. These include diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, mental disorders, cancer and respiratory illnesses. You might asking yourself what do these have to do with our muscles and bones? The connection is that the development and management of many of these communicable diseases is closely related to our ability to both be physically active and engage in the activities we enjoy and are important to us.
In this area of the site I aim to better understand these relationships, as well as discuss different topics and myths relating to our health, particularly the health of the musculoskeletal system.
- https://world.physio/resources/what-is-physiotherapy
- World Health Organization. World Report on Disability, (2011) – https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241564182
Posts
What is Spinal Stenosis – Not enough space in this spine for both of us
Welcome back amazing nerds. Today’s text aims at continuing to inform about the most common musculoskeletal complaint: back pain. More specifically, it is about a pathology that can be linked to back pain, can sound really scary, and sometimes is not well understood even by healthcare professionals. I’m going to be discussing spinal stenosis. I…
The myth of “Text Neck”
The content of this post was originally going to be included in the text on myths surrounding back pain (link to post), however because it is a somewhat complex topic and it will take some explanation to get my point across, it ended up developing into a topic worthy of its own text. This time…
Back Pain Myth 3 – You have bad posture
In this text, I’m back to continue looking at some of the myths surrounding lower back pain. This time I’m looking at one of the myths that is very ingrained into our day-to-day life, from how we sleep, how we walk, how we dress, how we eat, how we work, and even how we do…
Back Pain Myth 2 – Scan it
I’ll again be looking at some of the myths surrounding back pain and our spine. If you haven’t already, I advise you to read part 1 as in it I explain why these myths can be bad for you and why I think it is important to address them. In it, I have given an…
Back Pain Myth 1 – Something is broken
This is text will be the first in a series through which I want to address some myths that are still very prevalent in our society, be it in you, member of the general public, or among health care professionals. Why am I focusing on back pain? The 2015 Global Burden of Disease Study identified…
Exercise: The ignored wonderpill
Exercise has been more popular than ever. For some years it’s been the thing everyone in healthcare talks about. During the first lockdown one of the trendy things was to join some type of online exercise group or do a zoom workout with your buddies. Either that or you got into making bread (is it…
The World Shall Know Pain – Part 2
Today we’re picking back up where we last left in our journey to better understand the experience of pain. If you haven’t, I strongly recommend you go and read part 1 so you have a good understanding where we are in this analysis and how we got here. I’ve also been made aware that there…
The World Shall Know Pain – part 1
I’m going to discuss one of the more complex and debatable subjects among health care professionals, pain. Essentially I’m setting myself up to have a very rocky start to this site. However, considering the main reason people see a physiotherapist for is pain somewhere in their body, particularly in my area of work -the musculoskeletal…
The Physiolosopher 