Challenges for physical therapist!

Today I have to talk about Challenges that I have as future physical therapist, I think that the bigger challenge that we have, is be first consultation.

Well, I will explain the problem, now we only can work with patients reffered from a doctor, because the doctor do the first diagnostic, so if the doctor thinks that a patient need physical therapy, he gives a order to the patient to go to a physical therapist, and then, we can do our work.

Many important physical therapists believes that we have the skills necessaries to be first consultation, I mean that patients can go first to a physical therapist to get a diagnostic and obtain the physical therapy based on these diagnostic.

To reach that objective, be first consultation, we have to demonstrate to people and health authorities that a physical therapist has the skills necessaries to it. How? Well, we can demonstrate it, doing our work efficiently and good and informing people that a physical therapist can treat and diagnose problems related to muscle-skeletal system in a first instance.

In second place, we have to educate people to belive in our treatments

Other challenge that we have as a health professional is improve the public health system. Chilean people know that we don’t have a good public health system, because it doesn’t has good technology, infrastructure, and other material resources as the private health system. We have to fight for more money to public health system, because all people must have the best attention available in the country, independently of the education and socio-economic class of the people.

Well, I think that the challenges that I mention, are the bigger challenges for us, the first for physical therapists only, and the second specially for health professionals but must has an objective for all people that want a better country.

All for today, see you the next week!