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The profession of physiotherapy helps millions of people every year to prevent non-communicable diseases and their risk factors – most importantly obesity. They also manage their effects, along with the effects of aging, illness, accidents, and the stresses and strains of life. | The profession of physiotherapy helps millions of people every year to prevent non-communicable diseases and their risk factors – most importantly obesity. They also manage their effects, along with the effects of aging, illness, accidents, and the stresses and strains of life. | ||
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Introduction[1][edit | edit source]
Non-communicable diseases are a diverse group of diseases that are not communicable, meaning you can't catch them from another person. They include:
These disease groups are linked by common risk factors:
- social determinants of health (this is the environment in which we are born, live and grow and the opportunities we are given in those environments)
- tobacco
- alcohol
- poor nutrition
- physical inactivity
NCDs are the leading cause of death and cause 60% of deaths globally.
The profession of physiotherapy helps millions of people every year to prevent non-communicable diseases and their risk factors – most importantly obesity. They also manage their effects, along with the effects of aging, illness, accidents, and the stresses and strains of life.
Physiotherapists specialise in human movement and physical activity, promoting health, fitness, and wellness. They identify physical impairments, limitations, and disabilities that prevent people from being as active and independent as they might be, and then they find ways of overcoming them. They maximise people’s movement potential.
The World Health Organization points out that physical inactivity is one of the leading risk factors for global mortality, causing 3.2 deaths annually, and that physical activity can reduce non-communicable diseases, it is clear that the profession has a major part to play.
People with chronic health problems can improve their health by learning how to exercise safely under the guidance and instruction of physiotherapists. Activity has to be introduced carefully if a person is overweight, unfit, older, or has a chronic disease. Physiotherapists do this by examining the person, recommending exercises that are safe and appropriate for them, and educating them about how to look for signs of trouble. This makes them the ideal professionals to prescribe exercise programmes for non-communicable diseases.
Physiotherapy doesn’t just mean more healthy people, but more productive people who can contribute to countries’ economies. Their services are provided in an atmosphere of trust and respect for human dignity and underpinned by sound clinical reasoning and scientific evidence.The message is clear: physiotherapists are the movement, physical activity, and exercise experts and a resource in the battle against non-communicable disease that should never be overlooked.
Resources[edit | edit source]
WHO Non-Communicable Disease: Country Profile 2011
The World Economic Forum and the Harvard School of Public Health: The Global Economic Burden of Non-communicable Diseases.
Prevention and control of NCDs: Guidelines for primary health care in low-resource settings
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Dr Marilyn Moffat, President of fckLRWCPT. Article about physical therapy and non-communicable disease. 2011
