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New Delhi: India's
first clinical guidelines for physiotherapists dealing with
ailments like low back pain, hemiplehia (brain stroke) and
Parkinson's Disease will be ready by 2014, the Indian Association
of Physiotherapists (IAP) said Sunday.
Announced on the concluding day of the 50th annual conference of
the IAP held here, the guidelines would be systematically
developed to assist the practitioner to take decisions about
appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances, said
a statement.
"It is for the first time that clinical guidelines for Indians
would be framed. The objective is to create evidence-based
practice guidelines for its members for better patient outcome,"
said Umasankar Mohanty, President, IAP Organising Chairman of the
conference.
According to Rajeev Agarwal, Member, IAP, it would be a
multi-centre study which would involve centres from the metros and
state capitals.
"Physiotherapists who have acquired substantial experience in
carrying out their practice would be enrolled in the study. We
expect to release the first ever clinical guidelines in 2014 at
our annual conference," he said.
According to IAP, at present the physiotherapists of India are
following the guidelines framed by American Physical Therapy
Association (APTA) but as Indian patients are different,
guidelines framed by other countries do not apply fully on them.
"We know that Indians are racially different from others and the
risk factors for different diseases defined for us are different
from those for other populations," said Sanjiv Kumar Jha, General
Secretary, IAP.
"We need our own guidelines in view of our special geographical,
ethnic, and climatic conditions and very different dietary
habits," he added.
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