Usha Martin University, Ranchi Jharkhand

  With rapid economic development and increasing urbanization, lifestyle changes have taken place in the past few decades. In particular sedentary work conditions, lack of physical exercise and work related worries have led to lifestyle diseases like Hypertension, Type II Diabetes, Heart attack etc. In fact these have reached alarming proportions among Indians in the recent years. Even in such adverse conditions, a Physiotherapist provides a ray of hope for leading life of our prescription. She supplements the role of medical practitioners and that is why physiotherapy has emerged as an attractive career option. Physiotherapy or Physical therapy is a health care profession concerned with function and movement of human body parts with a view to maximize physical potential. Various Exercise techniques and Electro therapeutic modalities have been developed to promote, maintain and cater to physical, mental and psycho social dimensions of health. Physiotherapists work in a wide variety