"I am overwhelmed by emails from doctors who are worried about their patients who have had accidents, undergone orthopedic surgery, needing post-cancer rehabilitation, etc." President of the Order of physiotherapists, Pascale Mathieu is alarmed by “the after-effects and loss of opportunity” that patients deprived of physiotherapy may experience due to confinement measures. “People will lose their autonomy, especially the frail and isolated elderly, who spend their day in an armchair and no longer even do the little exercise that physiotherapy did. If they fall for lack of maintenance, they will go and occupy beds in the hospital. ”
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Neurological disabilities or patients with respiratory pathologies such as COPD, also need regular treatment. "When they interrupt the sessions during the holidays, they themselves tell us that they then find it difficult to recover what they have lost."
Risk of aggravation
Like other medical professions, physiotherapists
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