Summer of 2023 is here and the weather has been amazing thus far in the Greater Vancouver BC area. Individuals and households are participating in a wide number of summertime recreation that physiotherapy can help with. Among summer activities is the noble act of lounging around in patio chairs and hammocks. If that sounds like your cup of tea then you need something to read. See where we’re going with this? That’s right, it’s time for our monthly “Physiotherapy in the News” update! Below are some recent developments that may apply to your own health and wellness for the season ahead. Let’s review!
Top Stories from July of 2023 Regarding Physiotherapy You Need to Know About
Another Instance Where Physiotherapy Supports Sexual Health
Our Burnaby clinic is where BC Lower Mainland individuals and couples turn to for help with their sexual health. This is accomplished via treatment and therapy for pelvic floor dysfunction, defenses against other causes of dyspareunia (pain during sex), and in supporting optimal physical function for sexual performance. So every time a new study supporting physiotherapy for sexual health is released, we jump all over it.
A recent study has found that physiotherapy can improve sexual health even in women with disorders that generally have a significantly negative impact on it. In this body of research, the studied disorder was systemic sclerosis (SSc), which is condition characterized by the hardening and tightening of the skin. It not only causes significant discomfort, it may also cause problems in the blood vessels, internal organs and digestive tract. SSc symptoms typically compromise the sex lives of women. However, data finds that physiotherapy intervention once again can be employed to take corrective action.
Hands-On Physiotherapy Paves Way for Visually Impaired Therapists
This is a feel good story. The High Court of Bombay recently condemned a Physiotherapy Council’s rules to disallow students with any percentage of visual impairment to practice physiotherapy:
“The court blasted the council saying its refusal to deny permission to visually impaired students to undertake the physiotherapy course is reprehensible. “We find it irresponsible, and quite thoroughly reprehensible, to even suggest that those with disabilities cannot meet standards of ethical and legal responsibility, or that their disability or impairment makes them incapable of meeting these requirements,” it added.” (India Today)
Understanding the hands-on nature of the discipline, the High Court found that with proper training even visually impaired practitioners can delver optimal patient outcomes. Perhaps even more so when you consider that visually impaired persons have superior sensory perceptions of touch. As it stands now (in India) those with a visual disability of 40 percent or more are ineligible for training.
Physio to Bring Stanley Cup Back to Canada?
The last time a Canadian NHL team won the Stanley Cup was 1993. That’s three decades ago! The country has had enough, including the Montreal Canadiens who led the NHL in man-games lost for two straight years and set an NHL record last season. For the uninitiated, “nam-games lost” is a term that refers to the cumulative loss of players, primarily due to injury, for a sports team. Could this be what’s keeping the Canadiens, or any Canadian NHL team for that matter, from winning the Stanley Cup? We think so! The Habs do too, which is why they have just hired a new physiotherapy team. Dear Vancouver Canucks, you have our phone number.
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