Community-Based Physiotherapy & Primary Care Physiotherapy

At the end of the course, students should be able to: 1. discuss the differences between community based and hospital based physiotherapy services; 2. explain the philosophy of primary health care; 3. discuss the states of community based and primary; and 4. discuss health Care physiotherapy services in Nigeria.

Principles of health education – contact, screening, health talks. Community clinic – establishing physiotherapy clinics in villages and towns (mosques, churches, markets, schools and many others), Itinerant and domiciliary services. Organisation of domiciliary physiotherapy services in developed countries. Philosophy of Community based Rehabilitation (CBR). Philosophy of Primary Health Care (PHC). Primary Health Care physiotherapy services in Nigeria.