A sports physiotherapy professional helps athletes overcome and prevent injuries. He/she assesses the injury, creates a treatment strategy/ plan, and provides therapy accordingly. The professional does the instant treatment as well as the long term medication too. A sports physiotherapist manipulates the body parts of the athletes with the help of therapy, massages, sets exercises, etc.
Athletes have a clear, but sometimes limited, understanding of the role of the sports physiotherapist. They see the role of the sports physiotherapist as mainly injury-focused. In interviews with athletes on the role of the sports physiotherapist, the following four themes emerged:
Responsibilities
The skills that a sports physiotherapist must possess:
Common Entrance Test (CET) and the All India Medical Entrance Examination (AIMEE) are the two major exams to get into the Bachelor's Degree Physiotherapy Course.