Original Research Article
Year: 2023 | Month: April-June | Volume: 8 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 371-376
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijshr.20230247
Preference of Electrotherapy versus Exercise Therapy in Physiotherapists: A Cross-Sectional Study
Neha P Patel1, Dhanya Dileepan2
1Assistant Professor, MPT (Community health & Rehabilitation), 2Final year BPT student
Mahatma Gandhi Physiotherapy College, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Corresponding Author: Neha P Patel
ABSTRACT
Aims: To find the preference of electrotherapy and exercise therapy in clinical physiotherapists for treatments of the patients.
Method: 90 physiotherapists, selected by convenience sampling. Physiotherapists who have completed BPT and MPT course and practising in clinics and hospitals, participated in this cross-sectional study. The participants filled a Google self-designed, close-ended questionnaire of 11 items which was circulated via WhatsApp in different physiotherapist groups. Descriptive analysis was done using Microsoft excel.
Results: 68% of physiotherapists use electro therapy + exercise therapy, 26% of physiotherapists use exercise therapy for treatments of patients. 38% of physiotherapists use electrotherapy in new case during initial days whereas 15% uses exercise therapy. 77% of physiotherapists uses exercise therapy for long-term effects. 66% prefer that electrotherapy have short-term effects whereas 73% of Physiotherapists prefer that exercise therapy have long-term effects.
Conclusion: Physiotherapists have a perception of use of both electrotherapy modalities as well as exercise therapy in reducing their pain; electrotherapy having immediate effect and exercise therapy having sustained effect.
Keywords: Electrotherapy, Exercise therapy, Physiotherapy