Challenges in your discipline

Hi!
Each day, are more people who are suffering an injury, and one of the steps of rehabilitation is the physical therapy with us, the physicals therapists.
So, every day we have to renovate our technics to help people, like US (ultrasound), tens, criotherapy, short wave, etc.
But I'm just at first year, so I can't tell you specifically any technology but the idea is there.

About the social matters, statistics say that Physical Therapy is in second place in the preferences of the new students of the universities in the health's area.
And maybe when we graduate, we will be in the second place too in the ranking of salaries, but only working people, because a Physical Therapist earn if he works.

Also, many people don't believe in us because we do a slow job, with a long rehabilitation, so the change isn't too fast and people get bored. So we have to educate people to understand all that.

But I have a critic for my career. We only cure the patient, but we don't enter in his life, we don't care about his job, we don't care about his family and this is very important to help somebody, because a finger's fracture is not the same for a student who doesn't do any sport or a basketball player, and we have to know that. And many times we don't care about that. We have to cure a integral person, not a machine.


About the education, in Chile there aren't postgrades, so we have to study out of the country. Here, there are just courses and they are not enough.

Our mission in this society is not just rehabilitation, because we have to do the prevention of the diseases. But, how? Is easy, we have to educate people, explain people the risk of some customs like how they sit or walk. Maybe if the people learn, we won't have many job, but less people will have pain.