“Healing is a process as is building strength gradually crating a life living your worthwhile”.
Physiotherapy is a profession that aims to improve quality of life, rehabilitating the movements one aims to twirl on. An emerging career in physiotherapy is the goal of many young buds. Emphasizing movement and exercise science, the field diversifies into Orthopaedic, Cardiothoracic, Women’s Health, Community, and Individual-based rehabilitation, alongside Neuro, Paediatric, Sports, and Musculoskeletal.
Stepping out from a physician’s clinic to step into a physio rehab center, physiotherapy encompasses the social, physical, mental, and environmental spheres.
Physiotherapy is a never-ending horizon for research and outgrowth, as long as people continue to breathe. Upscling over the previous notions it now grows to involve Tele-rehabilitation, Gamification, Artificial Intelligence, and movement-based vital sensory systems. Overseen as a simple massage therapy to range it to lymphatic damage therapy, physios amalgamate it all. Exercise therapy is a tailor-made prescription for an individual’s ailments. No prescription fits it all, and aerating protocols and rehab regimes according to an individual’s short and long-term goals is a physio’s aim.
With the growing inclination towards digitalization and a multi-disciplinary approach, physiotherapy culminates in a solid action plan to provide its awareness and effectiveness to a global presence forward into the future, as we look into the upcoming decade, efficient participation in the field is a virtual vision.
The amalgamation of virtual reality and a physio’s mindset will rule to improve the quality of life at a peak. It shall aim to refrain individuals from restraining themselves from their ailments and disabilities, but rather improvise not only physical but social and financial independence.
The decade also stands visionary to advanced clinical decision-making with a holistic approach to evidence-based practice. Parallel streams of vivid therapeutic practice come into the picture as we broaden ourselves to cure with various adjuncts, be it Matrix Rhythm therapy, Dry needling, Cupping, Athletic, and Kinesio logical taping maneuvers.
Constant up-gradation and incessant fervor to execute an efficient evidence-based practice will be a physio’s leading vision.
In the crucial decade, that has witnessed a gut-wrenching pandemic, people are certainly more cautious, alert, and informed of their health. In view of physiotherapy, medical-pharmaceutics, and nutrition adjacent to mental health will be a developing comprehension. ‘Life-long learners’ are called, budding physiotherapy practices that aim to be sustainable, eco-friendly, and interactive.
A vision to create an action plan that enables all-time access to a cycle of health care is on the horizon. Begin with an emergency paramedical, nurse, physician, caregiver, speech or auditory therapist, physiotherapist, psychologist, or counselor.
A return to work in a stream of vocational rehabilitation is a vision of the decade. A proactive approach to industrial rehabilitation and ergonomic guidance to the parking corporate lifestyle is a must.
The future of physiotherapy lies not only in the hands of the young buds but their mentors. A perfect combination of a mentor’s disciplinarian spirit and a young physio’s technological advancement shall pave the way for the upliftment in the field of ethical practice and professionalism shall shatter the glass and outbreak the ceiling of outdated practices. Increased awareness and weight of information shall enable a physio to generate not all curative but a prophylactic regime. Executing the reality that prevention is better than cure its importance shall be emphasized in the coming decade as physiotherapy is not only an approach after the ailment but before too.
Real-time awareness of balance, fall prevention, mental health, proprioception, agility, and postural education can prevent complications that lie ahead of us in the decade.
I hope that physiotherapy is executed as comprehensive management. We promisingly hope that future physios shall embark to fly on brighter and higher horizons.