World Physiotherapy Day 2022

Time flies! The moment I thought about writing this topic here yesterday, I remembered that last year I had written one article about it too, which simply means that I’m a year older on read.cash again… soonest. Wow! But, let’s skip about that topic yet and talk about what’s with World Physiotherapy Day 2022. 

Actually, Physiotherapists around the world celebrated it yesterday and because I was busy hustling and bustling yesterday, I opted to write it today. So, mind you, there was no grand celebration made, we just did the same old regular routine, as usual treating patients from eight in the morning until five. However, our Clinical Supervisor thought that perhaps it would be the perfect time to spend our winnings from the TikTok contest last month when the hospital celebrated their Anniversary. I mentioned in this article “Everyday is Christmas,” that we got the consolation prize and we haven’t spent the money yet. The fastest way to gather and celebrate is to buy food, and Food Panda is to the rescue!

We ordered sotanghon (Filipino noodles), Sweet and Sour fish, Fried Chicken, Chopsuey to a restaurant nearby, and a colleague of ours brought Puto (rice cake) of which her mom cooked a lot for a client she thought will order 200 pieces of puto, but bought only 100. Eek! But, anyway, we’re so happy to have it, guess it’s a blessing in disguise! The instant luncheon celebration went fine, we had full and happy tummies to start the afternoon treating patients again. Burp… excuse me, hehe!

Going back to “World Physiotherapy Day,” this is celebrated every year on the 8th day of September. This year, the Filipino Physiotherapy community highlights the role of PT in the treatment and health education for the people experiencing osteoarthritis.

I have seen this photo and I guess it would be great to share it here.

Osteoarthritis, often called “Rayuma” here in the Philippines, is actually the most common type of arthritis in the elderly. Actually, some people in their 40’s and 50’s also experience osteoarthritis, most probably secondary to trauma and obesity, and this is something that we should be mindful about in the kind of lifestyle we have nowadays. 

This kind of arthritis usually affects the weight bearing joints in the lower extremity, but can also affect elsewhere in the body especially for the post-traumatic type of osteoarthritis.  Pain is a very common symptom, joint swelling, stiffness and the crackling sound or crepitus might be present too. It's a degenerative disease of the joint and the connective tissues around it, thus the elderly population is most affected by it, predisposing them to disability and immobility.

That would be a very brief information about osteoarthritis, but there are heaps of informative write ups from Google that you could read.

Anyway, this would be all for now and remember, "health is wealth." Make a choice to be healthy and fit.

Thanks for reading!

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Last year's "Happy World Physiotherapy Day!"

Life of a Traveling Physiotherapist

Lead Image and first photo by me (First posted on Facebook)

Second and Last photo from Facebook "TheFilipinoPhysio"

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09/09/2022

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