"On behalf of my daughter, thank you! Sessions
with physiotherapists were set up ever since we got back. They gave her the
ability to walk again, also giving her autonomy to take a simple shower for
example". This phrase was written by the father of a young disabled girl in the
letter he sent to the hospital which took care of her.
People often think a physiotherapist’s task is just
to massage, but after having done a work experience placement with a
physiotherapist, I can assure you he can “save” people; in fact, he can help people
retrieve their motor skills or a functional capacity which they had lost. That
is why we can say that a physiotherapist can change lives.
An individual who suffers from the loss of
motor control after a car crash for example, could think his or her future is
to stay in bed all day long… But, if they are motivated, the physiotherapist
can help the patient to make one step, then two, then three… From the point of
view of a valid person, it may seem ridiculous; but for the patient it is a
miracle! The physiotherapist can give joy to someone who always thought that he
could not take advantage of life.
In the case of a man who was born with a
cerebral motor disease, making him suffer from the constant contraction of his
muscles, the goal of the physiotherapist will not be to get him walking again
but to avoid permanent contraction of his muscles. In other words, the
physiotherapist will try to make this patient more comfortable in his body. During
my work experience, I saw a 27-year-old man who had this disease. He was so
happy when the physiotherapist finally succeeded in straightening his leg,
after massages to heat his muscles!
I want to be a physiotherapist. Yes, I would
like to turn sad lives into ones full of happiness. I would like to see that
smile on an old woman’s face; a smile which means "thanks!"
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