Awareness of Various Aspects of Physiotherapy among Medical Residents

Physiotherapy profession has emerged as important medical and rehabilitation complement in health care delivery and vital therapeutic tool but there exists a variation in the referral. Method A survey based study using self-devised pre validated questionnaire. Results Musculoskeletal physiotherapy (97.22 %) was most known among various fields of physiotherapy followed by sports (93.80 %), neuro (86.66 %) while least in industrial therapy (66.10 %) and community based rehabilitation (64.40 %). Only 2 % knew about both pre and post-operative physiotherapy. Conclusion Theres need for physiotherapists to educate medical residents about fields of physiotherapy, treatment modalities and evaluative procedures through continuing education programs.