YounesPhysio

Imagine this situation, a patient came for a physiotherapy session after a physician referral for a hip replacement surgery. The patient is a 76 years old female with overweight status. She asks the physiotherapist if she will be able to walk alone after 1 month of rehabilitation. He jumps to conclusions, and he tells her that she could do that based on her improvement and response to the protocol.  After 1 month the patient tries to walk alone with no assistance, and she fell on her knees resulting in some micro-fractures on her femur, and delaying her functional progress for more than 3 months!!!  This scenario could have been prevented if the physiotherapist educated the woman on the safe ways to walk until the muscle strength and the walking gait comes to its normal state. Patient education is one of the most important aspects of patient management, because it’s the breakthrough towards an understanding of the health problem by the patient and the gain of trust...

How does the ICF Disablement Model shape our profession as Physiotherapists? Nowadays, we hear more about the ICF (international classification of functioning) model, which was conceptualized by the World Health Organization in 2001, for the sake of building a framework for the health professions that care about the consequences of pathology on the human life experience.  for decades, the focus of medicine and health professions was the identification of pathologies, which is known by Medical Diagnosis. Once the latter is identified using all kinds of tests (Xrays, lab tests, EMG, ECG...) the necessary treatments are then delivered to the patient. This linear framework was the focus of all researchers and healthcare institutions until it stumbles with new emerging problems that it couldn't solve.  What kind of problems that the pathology-based framework couldn't solve? Imagine two persons are both diagnosed with a cerebrovascular accident that results in r...

Welcome to YounesPhysio Blog My Name is Younes Oummahya, I'm a physiotherapist and a Public Health practitioner. I am excited to start my blog and to share my insights and ideas with all of you the main subjects of my blog will be related to the Physiotherapy profession and its magical contributions to the improvement of the Human Movement System . I aim all physiotherapists and rehabilitation professionals for the most part (e.g. occupational therapist- speech-language pathologist) and all other health professionals that are interested in deepening their knowledge about the rehabilitation field and want to collaborate for the purpose of a better patient management care. Our field is in an ever-changing process, and we should get along with this evolution. We deliver our services to our patients that they are waiting for the best interventions and practices from us. my mission is to share my philosophy about our profession and to create a community that partic...