A very common situation for people, referred for physiotherapy by their doctors, is not to be able to understand, why is the physiotherapist talking about physiotherapy consultation or physiotherapy assessment.
Normally, the perception in the general population is that only doctors- in allopathy, homeopathy, ayurvedic or unani system of medicines- do consultation. Rest of all the healthcare specialities simply follow, what the doctor has prescribed.
This is not true for the field of physical rehabilitation, which consists of Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Dysphagia, Prosthetics, Speech and Hearing Therapy specialities.
While the goal of medicines is to achieve physiological effects, the specialities in the field of physical rehabilitation are concerned with a person’s retraining of impaired or lost physical movements, mobility, muscular strength and endurance.
Therefore a detailed analysis of the history of the presenting problems- of the new or repeating pains in muscles and joints or, of functional issues like speech, eating, walking etc., of varying nature and extents- proper physical examination and correlation of the findings, with the person’s health history and available reports, to decide the clinical way further, is a standard first step, culminating into a consultation or detailed assessment appointment.
This one to one analytical assessment is normally of longer duration, than that of a medicine prescribing doctor’s consultation.
For all the above reasons, a consultation with a physical rehab specialist is an independent clinical process and hence, us payable too.
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