Physiotherapy, physical therapy, having two names for the same profession doesn't help either.....
In the old east european countries and even in west germany physio's do what the docter tells them. The medics in germany have slowly misvormed the profession because they will prescibe a certain therapy without knowing exactly what it is and have stopped prescribing others. The german connective tissue massage ( teilrich leube-dicke) is hardly ever used anymore because of this. You can be told to give lymf drainage without any real oedema.......On the other hand the countries professional organisation has not gone into protest about it.


In countries like holland, australia, canada and the usa we do what we think is right . At a yearly conference in holland in november last year a usa delegate warned us that the same is happening in some states of the usa.
doctors are buying practises with their own therapists and telling them what to do.
I agree with baby physio kieran that we have never really promoted ourselves enough. I used to think that it had something to do with the fact that many women are physios. (oeps... I am one you know...).

I think we have to stop acting like assistants and start reacting like professionals. In a lot of countries this is the normal practise but in a lot of others it isn't yet..... Good luck to you all#
esther