Abstract
According to the World Confederation of Physical
Therapy (WCPT) “Physical therapy (PT) is an
autonomous global health care profession and
physical therapists (PTs) serve the community to
develop, maintain and restore the optimal
movement and functional ability”. They can target
the people from childhood to old age, where
movement and functional abilities are threatened by
ageing, injury, diseases, disorders, conditions or
environmental factors. PTs help their patients to
enhance the quality of life, covering physical,
psychological, social and emotional well being. They
promote good health, play a preventive role, treat
and manage patients suffering from diseases,
rehabilitate the patients after injuries, and habilitate
children born with disabilities, hence looking at the
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clients’ health in a holistic approach.
PTs are skilled for comprehensive history taking,
examination, evaluation of the findings from the
examination, make clinical judgments, formulate
diagnosis, prognosis, and plan the treatment. They
are competent enough to independently give
consultation to the patients, make referrals to other
health care professionals, plan treatment, estimate
the outcomes and advise self-management. The
broad role of the PTs in the health care system is to
involve in public health strategies, health advocacy,
supervision, delegation, leading the PT institutions,
manage, teach, research, and develop and
implement local, national and international health
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policies.
Syed Shakil-ur-Rehman, Hossein Karimi. (2017) Emerging Physical Therapy as an Autonomous and Specialized Health Care Profession, Journal of Islamic International Medical College, Volume-12, Issue-1.
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