1. Health and wellness

2. Role of Physical Therapist
Traditionally: Physical impairments and functional limitation management.
Modern: Major role in prevention, risk factors, developing health promotion strategies, fitness and wellness.
Evaluation, examination, motor capabilities, musculoskeletal, neurological, cardiopulmonary, integumentary and other systems.

3. Role of Physical Therapist
Optimizing health and managing illness through customized exercises that enhance motor control, fitness and address potential medical complication.
Athlete vs. older patient.
Optimal quality of life.

4. Key role Providing education, guidance, consultation,
direct intervention
to maintain physical activity for self care, mobility, leisure skills, work and play.

5. Healthy people 2010
Federal health promotion and disease prevention agenda developed to promote healthy lifestyles for americans.
Alliance of 350 national organization, 250 public health, mental health, substance abuse and environmental agencies

6. Cont…. Goals: To increase the quality and years of healthy life.
According to its developers, its purpose was promoting health and preventing illness, disability and premature death.
Goals:
To increase the quality and years of healthy life.
To eliminate health disparity among various populations.

7. Healthy people 2010 Factors affecting overall health:
Individual’s lifestyle behaviours.
Second hand smoking
Socioeconomic condition
The vision of healthy people in healthy communities is a community oriented planning guide based on healthy people 2010.

8. Cont….
As a physical therapist ,it is important to work in concert with others in achieving healthy people goals.

9. Goal 1:
To increase life expectancy and improve the quality of life of all individuals.
Cuurrently life expectancy is 77years, while it was 47yrs at start of 20th century.
It varies with gender, race, and income.

10. Goal 2:
The second goal of healthy people 2010 is designed to recognize these disparities and eliminate barriers to good health.
Contributing factors are: gender, race, education or income, disability, geographic location,

11. Leading health indicators

12. Leading health indicators
Factors that provide info about HW of population.
1.Physical activity
2.Over wt & obesity.
3.Tobacco use.
4.Substance abuse.
5.Sexual behaviour.
6. Mental health.
7.Injury & violence
8.Environmental quality.
9.Immunization.
10.Access to health care.

13. Health education resources

14. Health education resources
Parents of children
Children ages 8 to 12 years
Adolescents
Young and middle age adults
Older adults

15. Parents of children Healthy nutrition
Fitness activities for young children
Protecting from preventable injuries, childhood illness, in sport activities.
Reducing childhood obesity
Safety when swimming

16. Children ages 8 to 12 years Good nutrition Fitness activities
Safety issues for children
Playing it safe
Ergonomics for children (including wearing backpacks & playing at the computer)

17. Adolescents Good nutrition Fitness activities
Safety issues for athelets
Protection against infections
Screening for fitness
Ergonomics for the work place

18. Young and middle age adults
Good nutrition
Fitness activities
Choosing the right shoes for fitness training
Screening for fitness
Ergonomics for the work place
Prevention & management of obesity
Pregnancy-ways to reduce backache
Child developmental for new mothers
Screening for poor posture

19. Cont…. Screening for diabetes Screening for heart disease
Screening for stress
Stress management
Prevention of LBP
Prevention of skin cancer
Prevention of osteoporosis

20. Older Adults Reducing the risk of falls Good nutrition
Physical activities for health & wellness
Fitness training for older adults
Choosing the right shoe for fitness training
How to maintain healthy bones
Ergonomics for home
Medications-the more you take the more you need to know.