Who are the AHPs? #2
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Watch this and you may see a profession that would allow you to fulfil your potential in your future career, like Physiotherapist, Osteopath, Prosthetists and Orthotists.
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AI GeneratedThis video provides an overview of various healthcare careers focused on physical rehabilitation and mobility, specifically highlighting the roles of physiotherapists, osteopaths, prosthetists, and orthotists, and how each profession helps patients regain independence and improve their quality of life.
Do you have great interpersonal skills, patience and dedication?
If so, physiotherapy might just be for you.
As a physiotherapist, you'll treat people with physical and mental health problems
caused by illness, injury, disability or ageing.
You'll be assessing patients' problems and coming up with the right kind of
treatment or programme to suit their needs.
As well as treating patients with things like exercise or hands-on therapies,
you'll be helping get them back to living the life they want to.
Osteopaths are hands-on, regularly using a wide range of techniques
that focus on releasing tension, stretching and massage to relieve pain,
aid blood flow and help the body's own healing mechanisms.
Osteopaths take a holistic approach.
It's based on the principle that a patient's health depends on everything.
The skeleton, muscles, ligaments and tissues, all functioning smoothly together.
It's possible that you've never even heard of prosthetics and orthotics,
but as well as being a pretty good tongue twister,
this area makes for a really interesting career.
Prosthetists design and fit artificial replacements
for people who have lost or were born without limbs.
This, of course, gives freedom and independence,
enabling people to work, live and play.
Orthotists will treat people of all ages with a physical problem.
They assess how you move, diagnose mechanical problems
and prescribe, measure and then customise a brace to fit your body.
These orthoses are used to support the spine or limbs
to relieve pain and assist movement.
Training as a prosthetist or orthotist will provide you with the skills
to make a lifelong difference to people's lives.
You'll learn about linking anatomy, physiology, biomechanics and even engineering.
And you'll find out the huge impact
that these amazing appliances can have on a person's life.