Physical Therapy keeps improving…

Physical Therapy is a discipline that plays an important in role in the medicine area because is focused on people’s rehabilitation, and every day its advancing more and more. In Chile, new attempts are made all the time to make this career better and better, in fact, the University of Chile recently implemented a whole new system for Physical Therapy that includes improvements in the investigation side where physical therapist now can choose an the science side for their job. This makes these professional better valued on the Medicine area, because the patients wouldn’t have to go to the Physician to get sent to the Physical therapist, so this means a HUGE change in the area, because the Physical Therapists won’t depend on the Physicians anymore. But this is a change that I know that is happening in Chile, but I don’t know what is going on the rest of the world.

I hope that the improvements like this one occurs everywhere more often, because I really like this career, in fact if I keep studying this, I’ll probably get interested on the technologic side of the science specialty, because I’ve always dreamed that people that lose limbs or arms because of accidents can get their bodies complete again with out those prosthesis that makes them look different. So basically, in my imagination I’ve always thought that someone sometime has to create like a bionic or biological prosthesis that makes the people look normal to everyone else, and so the person would feel normal too. But I know this sounds a little crazy for our time, but everything evolves slowly, like one step at the time, and I think that giving Physical Therapists the chance of choosing a way into the medical science can mean a really big change in the future… but anyway, this is my dream =).

But enough of these crazy ideas, lets go to another big, real side of the Physical Therapy, the social way. The Physical Therapist job isn’t only the rehabilitation of the function of the injured parts of the body, they play an important role in the mental health of the patient too. The Physical Therapists are the medicine professionals that spend more time with the patients, so it is inevitable make bonds with the people that you are trying to help, and this makes you as a therapist try to rehabilitate the patients in all the areas, but you know that sometimes this is impossible (and this is when the social way comes) so you help on the mental health of the patient so they can accept that they wont be the same as before so they can live their life again happily and hoping that the accident and the consequences of this fatidic event wont hurt too much to the people =)


Well sorry about this blog, it was hard this time if you think is a little weird, I agree I just wrote what came to my mind =)