Why do we need to celebrate physiotherapy day?

“This year’s World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT) campaign focuses on ‘Physical Therapy and Mental Health’, reiterating the prominent effect that physiotherapy and physical activity has in mental health”, reports heraldgoa.

Physiotherapy is considered to be one of the most important health treatments for rehabilitating and improving a person’s ability to move and function.

Its importance mainly lies in it being non-invasive, drug-free, evidence-based clinical health science that makes use of a combination of manual therapy, movement training and physical and electro-physical agents in circumstances where movement and function are threatened by ageing, injury, pain, diseases, disorders, conditions or environmental factors and with the understanding that functional movement is central to what it means to be healthy.