Awareness of Physiotherapy intervention among medical practitioner of utter pardesh
Description
Background: Physiotherapy is a kind of science that helps and supports the patient to live a healthy lifestyle. Physiotherapy working in India, the main source of reference is a medical practitioner. Physiotherapy is defined as a health care professionals dealing with human mobility and function maximizing the quality of one’s life and movement strength within the loop of prevention, promotion, treatment/intervention, habilitation, and rehabilitation. Still, there are people who aren’t aware of the kind of treatment it can provide. Hereby, the objective of this study is to know how much aware the medical practitioners are in terms of the importance and need for physiotherapy for the treatment of the patients. Materials and Methods: Apparently, an approved questionnaire was sent through a Google form link to 250 medical practitioners of Uttar Pradesh. 124 responses were received and analyzed. Out of 124, 71 of the respondents were female and 53 were male. All willing medical practitioners from different streams along with graduates and super specialists were included, whereas students and non-internet users were excluded. Result: From the study, it was learned that there is awareness regarding the term physiotherapy (), but specialization in physiotherapy is less known, maximum of the subjects were aware of specialization in orthopedics and specialization in women’s health, community-based rehabilitation and dermatology is least known. 79% of the medical practitioners have an objection in physiotherapist having the first contact with the patient. Conclusion: The study revealed that there is a lack of awareness regarding assessment and treatment protocol provided by physiotherapy. However, doctors believe physiotherapist has a big role in treating ICU and immobilized patients. There is less information regarding radiation modalities as well as recent advances in rehabilitation.