Doing physiotherapy...Interesting???

Electrotherapy

Normally people will ask 'What are you doing in your work?' when you answer them you work as physiotherapist. I now work at a department known as 'Electrotherapy Department' under Rehabilitative Services. We here have a lot of medical devices run by electricity for conducting treatments for patients.

In Rehabilitative Services, there are two departments: Electrotherapy Department and Neuro-Spinal Rehabilitation. Normally patients come with doctor's voucher to seek treatment here. We will do relevant electrotherapy on them according to doctor's suggestions. After that, the patient may have to proceed to Neuro-Spinal rehabilitation to do rehabilitative exercises under physiotherapist's supervision.

I myself work at the Electrotherapy Department recently. There are a few types of treatment that we will do for patients such as Ultrasound treatment, Intermitten lumbar Traction(ILT), Intermitten Cervical Traction(ICT), Infrared treatment, Interfarential(IF) and etc. The picture above shows that i am doing one kind of treatment for a patient. The treatment is known as 'Ultrasound Treatment'. The mechanism of the treatment is to emit sound wave with high frequency to patient's painful part so that it will help to relax the muscle and hence help to improve blood circulation. Normally we will do the treatment for ten minutes for each patient and we will normally set the intensity of the ultrasound on our own.

Neuro-Spinal Rehabilitation

As i mentioned above, those patients need to do further treatment have to proceed to this department. We here got a few handsome and beautiful professional physiotherapists will help patients to do exercises like pulling, cycling and other exercises. For other simple exercises like knee, ankle and back exercises can be done in Electrotherapy Department but don't need to proceed to Neuro-Spinal Rehabilitation.

That is the room for the physiotherapists to do treatment for patients. Normally patients will be asked to lay on bed to do exercises or else they will be asked to do 'gym' exercises in the gym room outside.