{"id":1361,"date":"2016-02-05T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/physiomotive.gr\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2020-07-28T18:24:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T15:24:41","slug":"what-is-physiotherapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/physiomotive.gr\/en\/what-is-physiotherapy\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Physiotherapy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Physiotherapy<\/strong> is the health profession with expertise in <strong>movement<\/strong> and exercise prescription throughout the lifespan across the <strong>health spectrum<\/strong>. Physiotherapy involves specific interventions to individuals and populations where movement and function are, or may be, threatened by illness, ageing, injury, pain, disability, disease, disorder or environmental factors. Such interventions are designed and prescribed to develop, restore and maintain optimal health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Physiotherapy is integral to all spheres of health and well-being such as <strong>promotion<\/strong>, <strong>prevention<\/strong>, <strong>habilitation<\/strong> and <strong>rehabilitation<\/strong> and encompasses <strong>physical<\/strong>, <strong>psychological<\/strong>, <strong>emotional<\/strong> and <strong>social<\/strong> factors. Physiotherapy involves the interaction of the physiotherapist with the client including his\/her family, care givers and relevant other health professionals and communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: WCPT 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physiotherapy is the health profession with expertise in movement and exercise prescription throughout the lifespan across the health spectrum. Physiotherapy involves specific interventions to individuals and populations where movement and function are, or may be, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/physiomotive.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/physiomotive.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/physiomotive.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physiomotive.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physiomotive.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/physiomotive.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physiomotive.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/physiomotive.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physiomotive.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physiomotive.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}