Physiotherapy is a medical specialty that prevents, treats and deals with sports problems caused by diseases or injuries. Medical practitioners who perform this major are called physical therapists (PT or Physio) or physical therapists (PTA).
In the United States, other professions (such as chiropractors and osteopaths) will use similar physical therapy, while in China, some Chinese medicine practitioners or China Wushu Museum will carry out similar physical therapy such as massage and tuina.
Generally speaking, when people's ability to exercise (such as walking independently) and perform functional activities (such as climbing) in daily life is limited, physical therapists can provide help to promote exercise, relieve pain, restore function and prevent disability.
Physical therapy includes many types, such as orthopedic physical therapy to help orthopedic patients and neurophysiological therapy to stroke patients. For children with developmental retardation and cerebral palsy, physical therapy is generally called exercise therapy because its main purpose is to promote the establishment and development of normal posture and movement patterns.
OT, English full name: OccupationalTherapy, refers to occupational therapy or occupational therapy, with corresponding occupational therapists.
Occupational therapy (OT) is a process of evaluation, treatment and training for patients who have lost their self-care and work ability to varying degrees due to physical, mental and developmental dysfunction or disability, and it is a rehabilitation treatment method.
The purpose is to make patients recover or improve their independent living and working ability to the maximum extent, so that they can live a meaningful life as a member of family and society. This therapy is of great value to the rehabilitation of patients with dysfunction, which can help patients to recover their dysfunction, change abnormal exercise patterns, improve their self-care ability and shorten the process of returning to family and society.
Third, ST, English full name: SpeechTherapy, refers to speech therapy, and there is a corresponding speech therapist, sometimes called SLP(Speechlanguagepathologist).
Speech therapy simply means helping people with communication problems, including speech and language. For more information, please refer to whether it is called Saint or SLP. What is the speech therapist doing?
Of course, in the actual rehabilitation process, there are also overlapping parts among PT, OT and ST, such as cognition, which belongs to the category of OT according to the classification in the Rehabilitation Guide for Cerebral Palsy in China (20 15), but the actual situation cognition is put together with speech for rehabilitation, so we see that many institutions have cognitive speech training.
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The role of rehabilitation therapy technology:
Rehabilitation technology specialty is a new therapeutic discipline to promote the physical and mental rehabilitation of injured patients and disabled people, and it is also a new technical specialty. Its purpose is to restore people's daily life, study, work and labor as much as possible, as well as their ability to live in society, integrate into society and improve their quality of life.
In the second half of 20th century and the beginning of 2nd120th century, rehabilitation technology, a new technical specialty, and rehabilitation therapist, a new profession, showed strong development momentum and growing vitality, which reflected the urgent demand for this new specialty and human resources in the medical rehabilitation market.
Rehabilitation technology specialty is established to meet the public's health and aesthetic needs, and to meet people's needs in treating diseases and prolonging life, such as accidental injury, disability caused by diseases, recovery after surgery, etc. It has a broad and profound social foundation and a broad market.
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