Physical therapy and, specifically, physical therapist, health agent, working for the prevention, cure and palliation of musculoskeletal and postural problems.
The practitioner develops its work in four main areas:
* Assistance: work to promote, prevent, cure and alleviate the health of patients using the breadth of knowledge acquired in their training.
* Teacher: your job is to educate and promote knowledge of physiotherapy in the public and private colleges as well as training proposals called for continued training of the physiotherapist.
* Researchers: your job is to find scientific evidence of the modes of action of physiotherapy, offering the patient, therefore, those actions with greater guarantees of success, proven scientifically valid studies of the scientific community.
* Management and Administration : carry out his work in the direction of health care centers, educational or professional associations.
What is it and does a physical therapist?
Based on the current concept of health, physical therapists operate from three levels: primary (prevention, education and empowerment), secondary (healing process) and tertiary (treatment of diseases and functional recovery in chronic and processes already in place).
