What is a physio?
The physiotherapist is a health specialist. It participates in the re-education, rehabilitation and maintenance of people with motor or respiratory disorders.
What are the missions of a physiotherapist?
The physio Auckland performs rehabilitation and rehabilitation care to maintain or restore the movement and functional abilities of patients.
What are the qualities required to be a physiotherapist?
Good physical resistance is required to handle patients, repeat rehabilitation exercises or perform massages.
What is the difference between a physiotherapist and a physiotherapist?
In truth, these are only two distinct ways of naming the same practice. Indeed, physiotherapy is the art of treating movement through movement.
The physiotherapist or physiotherapist is a health professional. On medical prescription, he comes to treat movement disorders in his patients. Its missions consist in restoring, adapting gestures or optimizing motor function.
From the diagnosis of a doctor and the examination of x-rays, then his clinical examination, he decides on the treatment to be put into practice. The goal is to prevent impairment of functional abilities,
The objective of the physiotherapist is also to reduce or even eliminate pain. If it treats benign ailments such as lower back pain, torticollis or sprains, it also treats trauma due to accidents or the consequences of aging.
Conditions of exercise of the activity
Most often exercising in a private practice, the profession of physiotherapist can also be exercised:
- a doctor’s office
- in healthcare establishments (hospital, clinic, rehabilitation centres)
- or fitness centers in contact with patients and in relation with various stakeholders (doctors, nurses, etc.)
- in a retirement house
- in spas.
Qualifications and skills to practice this profession
Good physical resistance is required to handle patients, repeat rehabilitation exercises or perform massages. The masseur-physiotherapist must be able to choose the appropriate techniques and the treatments adapted to the needs of the person, respecting the hygiene protocols and the rules of good practice.
Listening to his patients and those around them, he creates a relationship of trust: good interpersonal skills are therefore essential.
The self-employed physiotherapist must also have entrepreneurial skills in marketing, accounting and administration.
What studies and training to become a physiotherapist? After the baccalaureate
5 years to prepare the DE of masseur-physiotherapist, compulsory to practice. The entrance examination is to practice in a training institute approved by the Ministry of Health.
- Access after a PACES (first year common to health studies), a 1st year of STAPS license (sciences and techniques of physical and sports activities) or SV (life sciences).
- tray + 5
- State diploma of physiotherapist masseur
The masseur-physiotherapist holds the DE (State diploma) of masseur-physiotherapist. The training lasts 5 years (one year of selection and 4 years of preparation).
Wages
In the hospital public service, net salaries range between €1,600 per month for a beginner physiotherapist and €3,000 for a healthcare executive at the end of their career.
In establishments and services for unsuitable and disabled people: €1,790 gross.
If he exercises as a liberal, his income obviously depends on the size of his clientele. A young physiotherapist who sets up has to face the necessary investments in equipment but earns his living very well.
What are the career paths?
- Remote coaching paid for by your training aids.
- Check your eligibility
- A possible evolution in the career of a physiotherapist is the path of specialization:
- in a type of pathologies (respiratory, rheumatological, etc.)
- in an environment (sports physiotherapist)
- in certain patients (geriatrics).
Conversely, the physiotherapist can also broaden his field of expertise by following additional training, in osteopathy or chiropractic for example.
Employed in a care establishment, the physiotherapist can pass competitions to occupy higher positions in his department or decide to launch his own independent practice.
Who employs a physiotherapist?
The vast majority of physiotherapists work in private practice. The others are employed in a care establishment: clinic, retirement home, hospital.
