Physical Therapy Interview Paper

During interview, Mr. Yagnesh explained that he believes that today and in the future new opportunities exist for physical therapy to enhance their roles in the delivery of primary care services, in addition to physical therapy’s traditional roles of providing secondary health services. So with physical therapy advancement, specific consultation is the best root to educate the individual about the various roles of the physical therapy and their maximal benefits. He further said that after practice more than 15 years, he feels that consultation is more mandatory and necessarily in practice due to importance of patient care and their relationship with physical therapy. He works near metropolitan area close to Indianapolis and focused most of

the patients from the countryside. In further he mentions that the larger groups who always get benefit with the client related consultation such as workers in company, employee in workplace etc. Sometimes he is going in church or any social place where someone requested for demonstration of ergonomic techniques in workplace, fitness formula as well as some times he provide lecture on general physical fitness with stretching and yoga activities. “Recently I went to one of Carmel, IN factory and gave short lecture on how to prevent work related injuries with the faulty techniques” said by Mr. Yagnesh. There is an evidence for work related musculoskeletal disorders which including “the impacts of repetition, force, posture, vibration, and the role of confounders; evidence for work relatedness in shoulder musculoskeletal disorders; elbow disorders; hand/wrist disorders including carpal tunnel syndrome, hand/wrist tendinitis, and hand/arm vibration syndrome; low back musculoskeletal disorders with attention given to heavy physical work, lifting and forceful movements, bending and twisting into awkward postures, whole body vibration, and static work postures; and the relationship between work related musculoskeletal disorders and psychosocial factors”(Bernard & Putz-anderson,1997). He said that to identify the work related hazards and safety issues, as physical therapist we must have to focus on environmental as well as factory related factors which could help their employee’s overall performance. In further he stated that there are several physical assessment tools which can be used for the assessment of the ergonomically work environment. There are several organization working very hard on implementing the proper ergonomics in each individual company who had more than 50 employees in order to provide safety to the workers and prevent overall work related injury ratio, such as occupational safety and health administration.