Dr. Vijay Guleria, BPT MPT(Ortho) MSW. Physiotherapy advocate

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How to start online Physical therapy consultation in current COVID scenario

 Contribution of online physiotherapy treatment in current scenario. in our day to day life nowadays everything goes online, other medical faculties are providing online consultation to the patients of their domain.

They are earning by collecting the consultation fees through various online platforms.



participation of physiotherapist in online delivery of treatment is very low, Physiotherapy doctor are feeling that physiotherapy treatment can be delivered only by face-to-face interaction with patient. This is making them hesitant to do online consultation and treatment.

We all have to remember that physiotherapy is not all about physical contact of our physiotherapy doctor to the patient.

We have a large amount of knowledge n information that can be delivered online to the patient for his well-being.

Physiotherapy doctors have to overcome through the situation, come out of this mindset and have to think of various methods online methods so that they can deliver the treatment to the patient.

As we all have studied during our course that that the patient can be treated by providing optimum conditions to heal.so we can deliver all the knowledge to our patients to help so that they can collect all optimum condition near them in order to heal fastly. few of the important things can be taught to the patient easily through online mode like

1.Assessment can be done online (partially)

2. active range of motion exercises.

3. application of heat 

4. application of cold

5. application of contrast bath

6. Auto stretching

7. effective use of isometrics off various muscle groups

8. counselling of patients.

So dear friends please start working upon the various method/ online methods so that you can deliver your treatment effectively to the patients and patient can get benefits from you in the critical situation like today.

This will also open a new debate of online and offline mode of physiotherapy treatment delivery but I know this will help the mankind and be happy to deliver our best what we can do online.

Physiotherapy doctors can also join various online service delivery platforms, they can register over them to get patients and information related to patients.

The simplest way to help our patient is to provide online consultation through online free video chats portal like WhatsApp, Facebook, ms team, zoom and Google duo etc.

We can collect our consultation fees through UPI  Paytm, Google pay etc.


We have to upgrade ourselves with ongoing online scenarios of changing world and the things available the techniques available to provide online consultations.

With this I wish all the best for you all my dear friends for online consultation and happy earning.

If you want to help other Physiotherapy doctors, you can tell more physiotherapy treatment or treatments which can be delivered online in comment section.