Journal of Novel Physiotherapies
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Physical therapists work with people who have illnesses or injuries that make it hard for them to move and do things they need to do in their daily lives [1]. They use a person's history and physical exam to make a diagnosis, make a treatment plan, and, if needed, use the results of tests like X-rays, CT scans, or MRIs. PT management typically includes the prescription of or assistance with specific exercises, manual therapy and manipulation, mechanical devices like traction, education, electrophysical modalities such as heat, cold, electricity, sound waves, radiation, assistive devices, prostheses, orthoses, and other interventions [2]. Electrodiagnostic testing, such as nerve conduction velocity testing and electromyograms, may also be used. Additionally, physical therapists help individuals and populations develop, maintain, and restore maximum movement and functional ability throughout the lifespan by developing fitness and wellness-oriented programs for healthier and more active lifestyles and working with individuals to prevent mobility loss before it occurs. This includes providing treatment when aging, injury, disease, or environmental factors threaten movement and function. The foundation of being healthy is functional movement.

Musculoskeletal, orthopedic, cardiopulmonary, neurology, endocrinology, sports medicine, geriatrics, pediatrics, women's health, wound care, and electromyography are just a few of the many specialties in physical therapy. Particularly, the field of neurological rehabilitation is rapidly developing. Physical therapists work in a variety of settings, including private-owned clinics, outpatient clinics or offices, health and wellness clinics, rehabilitation hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, extended care facilities, private homes, education and research centers, schools, hospices, industrial and these workplaces or other occupational environments, fitness centers, and sports training facilities [3]. Physical therapists also work in roles that do not involve providing patient care, such as health policy, health insurance, health care administration, and health care executives. Physical therapists are involved in the medicallegal field as experts who conduct independent medical examinations and peer reviews.

The level of education available varies greatly from country to country. In some nations, there is little formal education, while in others, doctoral degrees, postdoctoral residencies, and fellowships are common. After the development of orthopedics in the eighteenth century, machines like the Gymnastic on were developed to treat gout and similar diseases by systematic exercise of the joints, similar to later developments in physical therapy [4]. The earliest documented origins of actual physical therapy as a professional group date back to Per Henrik Ling, "Father of Swedish Gymnastics," who founded the Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics (RCIG) in 1813 for manipulation and exercise. It is believed that Hippocrates and Gal Until 2014, the Swedish word for a physical therapist was "sjukgymnast," which means "someone involved in gymnastics for the sick." However, the title was changed to "physiotherapist," which is the word used in other Scandinavian countries [5]. In 1887, Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare granted PTs official registration. Soon after, other nations followed. The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy was founded in Great Britain by four nurses in 1894 . The School of Physiotherapy at the University of Otago in New Zealand opened its doors in 1913. Reed College in Portland, Oregon, in the United States, graduated "reconstruction aides" in 1914. "Spinal manipulative therapy has been a part of the practice of physical therapy since its inception. Modern physical therapy was established toward the end of the 19th century as a result of events that affected on a global scale, necessitating rapid advancements in physical therapy. Before long following American muscular specialists started treating youngsters with handicaps and started utilizing ladies prepared in actual schooling, and healing activity. During the 1916 polio epidemic, these treatments were used and promoted more. The field of physical therapy was institutionalized and women were recruited to work with and restore physical function to injured soldiers during the First World War. In 1918, individuals engaged in physical therapy were referred to as "Reconstruction Aides." Following the outbreak of World War-I Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C., housed the first physical therapy school [6-8]. Research sparked the physical therapy movement. In "The PT Review" in March 1921, the first physical therapy research was published in the United States. Mary McMillan established the American Women's Physical Therapeutic Association, which is now known as the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), in the same year. The Georgia Warm Springs Foundation promoted physical therapy as a polio treatment in 1924. Through the 1940s, treatment primarily consisted of traction, massage, and exercise. Manipulative techniques to the spine and furthest point joints started to be drilled, particularly in the English Province nations, in the mid-1950s. Around the time that polio immunizations were created, actual specialists turned into an ordinary event in medical clinics all through North America and Europe. In the last part of the 1950s, actual advisors began to move past medical clinic-based practice to short term muscular centers, state funded schools, universities/colleges wellbeing focuses, geriatric settings (talented nursing offices), recovery focuses and clinical focuses. The formation of the Orthopedic Section of the APTA in 1974 marked the beginning of specialization in orthopedic physical therapy in the United States. Around the same time, the Global Alliance of Muscular Manipulative Actual Advisors was formed, which has since assumed a significant part in propelling manual treatment around the world.

15 Canadian universities offer physiotherapy programs, often through the university's medical school. Each of the physical therapy schools in Canada has switched from Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy (BScPT) programs that take three years to complete and required two years of prerequisite university courses to Master of Physical Therapy (MPT) programs that take two years to complete and require bachelor's degrees. The University of Manitoba was the last Canadian institution to adopt the MPT program; it did so in 2012, making the MPT credential the new entry-level credential across Canada. Practitioners who already hold BScPT credentials do not need to upgrade their credentials.

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