Stress management in physiotherapy

Dear friends,
Every saturday and sunday i always try to post somthing helpful for physiotherapist. As per my routine i am writing this post, today I decided to write on stress management today hope it will help me and you. Please don't forgot to read case study at end of the article.

Stress management
Stress management- physiotherapy
Stress and its management in the community is a growing issue for many health practitioners.

Physiotherapists offer a number of stress management techniques and treatments which can help to improve a patient's health and well-being, whether it be specially designed stress management programs, exercise programs, massage, muscle relaxation or general fitness advice.

Role of physiotherapy 

Physiotherapists use an initial assessment to clarify the nature of the problem and develop strategies and treatment which are acceptable to the individual.

Treatment can take the form of individual consultation, group relaxation classes, relaxation audio tapes or information sessions for the general public. As part of the treatment program, physiotherapists offer close professional follow up with the patient to ensure a positive treatment outcome.

Physiotherapists with a special interest in stress management can offer many different types of relaxation therapy including guided imagery, progressive muscle relaxation, breathing techniques, thought stopping, stretching, massage and general fitness advice.

Benefits of physiotherapy

Research continues to indicate a positive correlation between a person's ability to cope with stressors and the likelihood of disease during their lifetime.
 Physiotherapy can assist by:

Reducing muscle tension: therapeutic exercises, massage and stretching can help to reduce the muscles. Our body is a psychosomatic system so above given things help a lot in removing stress from body and mind both.

Increasing vitality and decreasing reported tiredness: regularly going for walk and general body exercises breathing exercises help a lot in increasing vitality and decrease your tiredness.

Improving concentration span: Breathing and balancing exercises along with some yogic postures like dhyana mudra can improve your chances of enhanced concentration.

Improving feeling of general well-being: strength and endurance training improve feeling of  general feeling of well being. So indulging in this programme may help to reduce the stress.

Decreasing blood pressure: low salt food, avoid fried food, and general relaxations exercises and breathing exercises help to improve a lot. Left nostril intake breathing have proved evidences to lower your blood pressure.

Reducing risk of cardiovascular disease: cardio exercise reduce risk of cardiovascular diseases in improve our cardiovascular health.

Improving attitude to work and leisure activity: work life balance, counselling may help to maintain the stress under control.

Reducing pain states such as headache, chronic pain syndromes and work related anxiety through physiotherapy is possible and lot of people are getting benefits in stress management.
Physiotherapy help in all spheres of life so it also help in possibly decreasing dosage of psycho-active medication.

Questions and queries are most welcome.

Case study:
Dr.Amol Pampatwar 2011 batch Gmch Aurangabad ms Obgy died due to massive ami today at 9.20 am while travelling from miraj to Kolhapur .
He was very soft spoken person n.married a year ago .
Pm showed lad infarct with multiple plaques in coronaries.neglected chest pain for two days....
May his soul rest in peace..... Recently we are hearing news about many young doctors facing morbidity/mortality due to life style diseases like MI etc.
Here are views, though from very short experience:

Doctors are the one who neglect health and healthy lifestyle the most.
Few things that I found helpful are:
1. Practice is a continuous process... You are there in hospital for patients and not vice a versa. So dont get bothered much by fluctuations in practice.

2. Patients need you more than, you need them..
So set your limits. Stop OPD on time. Avoid patients who want to take ur leasure time (few patients feel pride in visiting u on sundays or off ur opd time).

3. 'Put your eggs in different baskets' is a good saying, but dont put them in too many baskets that you are worried about missing few. So dont keep so many attachments to hospitals.  Every new attachment demands time plus travel. Stressing us further.

4. Most important, Set your own targets ..  not the targets that ur colleague/competator has set. He may be  earning much more .. but he might be paying the cost in some other ways (family.. hobbies.. friends etc).

5. When in doubt about health  dont be your own doctor.

6. Give time to family and friends, in hour of trouble they are the one who will be with you in hospital and not ur bosses or professional colleagues. ..

7. "Happiness lies in satisfaction". If we are not satisfied, we will not be happy even if we earn highest in world.
8. Best time to be happy is now, best moment to be happy is present moment. Learn to enjoy the whole  journey, dont wait to be happy till u reach the destination!!


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