A Study of Physiotherapy Practices and Perspective among Doctors in Intensive Care in India: Understanding the Importance of Physiotherapy in Intensive Care Settings

Abstract

Physiotherapy plays a major role in rehabilitating a patient. A physiotherapist's role is to apply physiotherapy skills and knowledge to evaluation, design, implementation and evaluation of physiotherapy treatments for various conditions of acute or chronic disability or disability. After an epidemic of poliomyelitis, India had a history of physiotherapy in 1952. In India, physiotherapy has slowly and steadily established a firm basis with many new developments, but in large measure physiotherapy remains a secondary reference profession not only in our home country but elsewhere as well. The further development of physiotherapy would depend on the physicians' awareness. Literature shows that general practitioners and doctors students are not aware of the situation. The study was therefore conducted in order to assess the physicists (doctors)' perspective on how important physiotherapy is for them, their perception of the physiotherapist's role and their need for the physiotherapist to interact in an efficient treatment result.