Mangalore, Mar 14: The slow development in physiotherapy is because of lack of statistical data in physiotherapy standards, and there is no apex body that regulates the educational standards in physiotherapy, said registrar of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) Dr D Premkumar, stating the need for a separate physiotherapy council in the state on the lines of the medical and nursing council.
Delivering the keynote address at a programme marking the silver jubilee celebrations of Dr M V Shetty College of Physiotherapy, Mangalore on Friday, he said that the system should bring a total relook in the field of physiotherapy through reforms.
He said that although Dr M V Shetty group of institutions did not have a medical college, the impact of the institution to the community was no less than a medical institution. With 25 years of service, the management and the institution have shown hard work and painstaking dedication over the years and have excelled in providing health care and health support services to the community, he said.
Speaking on the occasion, trustee of Dr M V Shetty Memorial Trust Prof H Urmila Shetty elaborated on the importance of the sense of touch in our lives. “It is one of the acute senses we possess and physiotherapists learn the refinements of this sense. Physiotherapists learn a lot with the use of their hands. The survivors and people affected by accidents, calamities or war require a healing touch, the equivalent of which is human touch,” she said.
She said that the sense of touch was also important due to the advent of technology. “We have the power of technology at our fingertips, and we should use it with a developed sense of human purpose,” she said, adding that distancing ourselves from people due to technology will not allow the development of one 's inner sense.
Trustee Dr Ranjit Shetty said that physiotherapists were required to rehabilitate patients once they were treated medically.
Founder-secretary of the Trust Dr M Ramgopal Shetty and resource person Dr Diana Pinto also spoke on the occasion.
Dr M V Shetty College of Physiotherapy was established in the year 1990 and was the first college to offer a bachelor 's degree course in Physiotherapy in Karnataka.
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