World Physiotherapy Day ’18 Celebarted at Rourkela

8th September is celebrated as world Physiotherapy day all over the globe. We at Rourkela, Odisha, India also celebrated 8th September 2018 as a World Physiotherapy Day with all the enthusiasm.

The event was organised by RRRC (Regional Rehabilitation Research Centre, Rourkela) and Marwari Mahila Manch, Rourkela. A Physiotherapy awareness camp was also conducted by them.

Event to create awareness regarding physiotherapy

The event started with the lightning of diya by the chief guest of the occasion. The chief was the Medical Superintendent of Rourkela Government Hospital (RGH). He was received with a warm welcome by one of the differently abled children of Ashadeep School. A diya was also offered by this child to inaugurate the function.

After the Lightning of diya our chief guest and other dignitaries addressed the gathering and gave their message for World Physiotherapy Day 2018. There message included the benefits and need physiotherapy in today’s medical scenario.

After a brief speech by all the dignitaries, the Physiotherapy awareness camp was conducted. The camp was headed by the senior physiotherapist Sunit Sanjay Ekka and Mukesh Kumar.

There was almost all kind of patients. People of all age group took benefit of the camp. Some of them were old, middle-aged and some were young who all participated in the camp and consulted the physiotherapist for their pain and disability.

Not only the pain cases, there was several disabled children who attended the camp and were assessed by physiotherapist. The disabled children like autistic, cerebral palsy and various kind of physically challenged children attended the camp.

There was also a separate counter of Health and nutrition. The purpose of this counter was to create awareness about the good nutrition and its benefits on our health. The attendee of the function also gathered around  this counter to take the benefit of the nutritionist who was serving them.

The whole day was filled with activity and a sense of creating a healthy environment engulfed the area to create a world where there would be no pain and disability.

But before I finish this article let me take the opportunity of the occasion to explain a few important aspects of Physiotherapy profession.

What is physiotherapy

In a simple word Physiotherapy is the term which is made by the combination of two words physical and therapy.

It means giving therapy by using physical modalities. Physical modalities could be anything. It can be exercise, external force (weight, gravity, tensile force, elastic force) heat, cold, electromagnetic radiation and electric current.

What are the jobs of a physiotherapist

Usually, people associate Physiotherapy profession with the musculoskeletal pain cases like joint pains, arthritis, muscular pain. The physiotherapist has an active role in treating Orthopaedic musculoskeletal pain cases.

But contrary to this, their job is not only concentrated to Orthopaedic cases, they actually handle a vast group of patients including neurological cases like sciatica, prolapsed disc, paralysis cases like hemiplegia, quadriplegia etc.

They also have a role in paediatric cases like cerebral palsy, Autism, polio and many other physical disability cases of children. Physiotherapy in co-ordination with occupational therapy can bring significant changes in the lives of these special kids.

One of the most popular job of physiotherapist is sports physiotherapy. If you have an interest in sports, you might have observed a physiotherapist attending their injuries on the filed. Treating a sports injury case needs altogether a different skillset and they a have to d post-graduate in sports therapy to be a qualified sports physiotherapist.

Every major sports team have a team physiotherapist associated with them Let it be a football, cricket or hockey. All th important National teams have physiotherapist with them.

In modern-day Medical Science, physiotherapist has also an important role inside the ICU (Intensive Care Unit). They play a crucial role in softening the secretion inside the chest so that they can be sucked out for clear respiration.

As the Physiotherapy is evolving, slowly the people are recognising the profession and they are accepting it to consult for their pain and their physical ailment. And this is why you can see physiotherapy clinics mushrooming around your city.

Sunit. S. Ekka

Dr Sunit Sanjay Ekka is a physiotherapist in practice for the last 15 years. He has done his BPT from one of the premium Central Government physiotherapy colleges, ie, SVNIRTAR. The patient is his best teacher and whatever he gets to learn he loves to share it on his Youtube channel and blog.