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Activity for Health - Physiotherapy Practice

When it comes to restoring, maintaining and promoting physical functions, you as physiotherapist are a key port of call for many people. You promote your patient’s independence and specifically improve your patient’s quality of life.

For example, you work with patients who are disabled following a stroke or injury, suffer from back or shoulder problems or sports injuries. As physiotherapist you also work with patients suffering from respiratory diseases or age-related mobility impairments, as well as promote children’s movement skills.
You perform targeted physical examinations and assessments in order to find, for example, the cause of pain, mobility impairment, decrease of muscle strength and endurance, or fatigue and their effects on the individual’s activity and participation in life. Based on your findings you work with the patient, often in a multiprofessional team, to achieve the therapeutic goals.

The treatment plan, for instance, comprises therapeutic exercises, manual techniques and patient education. As a physiotherapist using your skills of reflection, you integrate the latest research results into your treatment and evaluate the treatment outcomes with standardised assessments. Furthermore, you provide health-related services and give advice and guidance to patients, for example in programmes for health promotion and prevention.

All of these demanding tasks require a high level of professional, interprofessional, organisational and academic expertise. For future healthcare this expertise is increasingly important and leads to modern and new areas of activities for physiotherapists. This is coupled with a complex and expanding professional profile in numerous healthcare facilities and areas, e.g:
•    hospitals
•    rehabilitation centres
•    private physiotherapy practices
•    sports organisations and providers
•    health-related service providers and centres (e.g. health insurance providers, insurance companies, corporate health management)
•    research facilities