About Physical Therapy in quick look at human history we see a lot of marks which indicate that ancient man was looking at the natural resources available to him what relieves the pain and health problems. Use the fire, for example, warmed up to protect himself from diseases caused by cold and climate change. With the development of human civilization used a lot of natural resources and he has put the form in which he wants, and developed to serve different needs, especially medical ones.
Physical therapy did not appear suddenly, but its history spans over many centuries, it has been found in some of the pharaonic fingerprints that indicate the prevalence of nearly seven thousand years. The legends of the Iliad and the Root Alawdecea Aligriqiat that women were treated, including the availability of veterans have of natural methods to relieve muscle and physical problems after their return from war.
With the progress of civilization and scientific renaissance flourished physical therapy, and appeared independent discipline, particularly after World War II, where there is an urgent need to rehabilitate soldiers and war victims.
He knew physical therapy as a medical disciplines, which means diagnosis of disability and disease and treatment by physical means. Said Robert Shestack (Robert Shestack) in his book (Hand Book of Physical Therapy) The physical therapy is now known as the oldest and the latest in the field of medicine practitioner.
Is the oldest because the primitive man, who lay in the sun for the benefit of their impact and thermal sterile, has been practicing what is now called climate therapy. Also, the first man who served as a water bath for his wound in the tributaries of a river to remove the pain, has been practicing what is known in our time-free water treatment. The latest is because it began during the forty to fifty years become a distinct and integral part of the regular processing ..
What physical therapy??
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The word therapy means the language of therapy, while natural is derived from nature that God granted us it ..
In practice, it is very difficult to customize therapy to the definition set out in a few lines, where he put the World Federation for Physical Therapy Description of the profession in the folder included about 400 pages, and know Shestack physical therapy as a cure impotence, which affects patients due to injury or illness or loss of a parts of their body, using therapeutic exercises, heat, cold, water, light, electricity, ultrasound, and massage.
Thelma said Holmes, an associate professor at the University of Florida, said that physical therapy is the art and science contribute to the development of health and prevention of disease by understanding the movement of the body, and is working to correct the effects of the disease, injury and mitigation.
Is also interested in the health of the community in general through various means, and includes means on the calendar and treatment of patients, management and supervision of physiotherapy services and staff and consultation systems for other health and prepare records and reports, and participation in the planning of community projects and future plans, and evaluating educational programs.
Physiotherapists
Physiotherapy is an integral part of the program of health and medical care, which plays a vital role in maintaining the health of the individual and society. And contributes to physical therapy specialists, through their professional activities in the prevention of disability and severe disability and evaluation.
In the public health lead physiotherapists and duties include planning, organizing, evaluating and clarify, coordinate and implement programs of physical therapy, and consultation and advice professionals and other organizations to contribute to the development of the concept of social studies, health and carry out such studies for the community, and educating individuals and groups, in addition to giving direct care for patients. And implement these activities through the continued participation of management and related organizations.
Since the therapy is the science specialist in the field of medicine practitioner, the workers in this field must be qualified scientific, and university degrees in order to ensure that they receive the education requirements of basic and applied for this specialization, to include: anatomy and physiology, kinesiology, and science diseases, mental illness, and medical physics, and neurological and orthopedic diseases, diseases of children, in addition to a number of internal medicine and others.
This is in addition to the materials specialist, such as the application of physical therapy on the diseases mentioned earlier, and ethics, management, and health education, treatment, electricity and water, and treatment manual, mechanical, and radiation therapy, therapeutic exercises, and medical rehabilitation, and other .. In order to provide a specialist full service physical therapy, it should work on the foundations, and a strong level of understanding with the doctors, specialists and occupational therapy, and prosthetics, and psychiatry, social service, and practical guidance.
International need to physiotherapy services
Increasing the need for physical therapy in different areas of health are increasingly depends on what can be supplied from qualified specialists in this area, to many factors, among them the following:
- Rapid advances in medical knowledge, and in the application of physical therapy in the prevention of various growing conditions and treatment.
- Increase knowledge of the problems of chronic diseases and physical and mental disabilities, which resulted in the rapid extension of health care programs shall include the rehabilitation for all age groups ..
- Development of physical therapy programs at the local level and international health departments as a result of this health-care systems all over the world ..
- Increasing knowledge and understanding that chronic care patients require specialized and specific ways that take into account the aspects of psychological, social, educational and professional of the medical condition.
- Increase the needs of educational programs, demand for advisory services and educational specialist physiotherapy.
Diseases need to physiotherapy
Service provides natural treatment for many cases based on the needs of the patient, and determined by the medical team. Such cases include:
- Musculoskeletal diseases and injuries, such as muscle atrophy and cramps, weak muscles.
- Diseases of the bone and injuries, such as twisting the spine, fractures and injuries, and orthopedic operations.
- Nervous system diseases and injuries, such as paralysis of all kinds, and inflammation of the nerves, disc problems and spinal injuries.
- Internal Medicine and the heart, such as circulatory disorders, high blood pressure, angina, and after open-heart surgery.
- Respiratory diseases, such as asthma, bronchitis, and fibrosis of the alveoli. javascript: insertTags ("- a word of truth 01:00, 14 August 2008 (UTC )","",""); javascript: insertTags (" - a word of truth 01:00, 14 August 2008 (UTC) "," ","");-- right word 01:00, 14 August 2008 (UTC) - diseases of the joints, such as rheumatism, and the erosion of articular cartilage, and the roughness of the joints, and stiffness of the spine, and arthritis.
- Diseases of the urinary and reproductive systems, such as incontinence caused by muscular weakness, and inflammation of the prostate.
- Skin diseases and injuries, such as burns, wounds, psoriasis, and certain skin disorders caused by bacterial contamination.
We end our conversation and that scientific progress and the enormous development in computer technology led to the emergence of many modern therapeutic techniques such as laser and others, which studies have shown its effectiveness in the treatment of many diseases and injuries.
There is still a lot of other technologies that are still under discussion and study. In light of this rapid progress, the results of research promise to further development in the therapeutic methods for diseases and disorders did not have treatment.
Physical therapy and crises in spite of the important role of physical therapy and salt at this time, but the physical therapy encountering serious problems in many countries of the Arab world including Egypt, Saudi Arabia
The situation in Egypt
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Entitled to a physiotherapist in developed countries, disclosure of the situation starting (with the knowledge that the level of graduates of treatment Tbive Egypt comparable to graduates of physical therapy in developed countries and the proof is that the right to travel to America without a certificate of the equation and this does not happen with the graduates of Medicine) for example in the United States and Canada Poland and the Czechs and the development of new Certificate was awarded Doctor of Physical Therapy at the right diagnosis and treatment under the name of a certificate (DPT) has been studying this certificate the first time with the U.S. in 2001 at Duke University and then followed by many major universities worldwide.
Problem guild medical professionals in Egypt
There are still another problem, namely to join the guild medical professionals despite the fact that all the trade medical professions such as medicine, dentistry and pharmacy, nursing and veterinary have joined, but the physical therapy did not join until now, citing the reasons are not convincing added, but the number of graduates are few in relation to graduates of colleges subscribing before. .................
