How many people need rehabilitation in the world?

“I need rehabilitation but I’m not getting any!” Firstly, what is rehabilitation? Rehab is a set of interventions needed when a person is experiencing limitations in everyday physical, mental, and social functioning due to ageing or a health condition, including chronic diseases or disorders, injuries, or trauma. Rehabilitation might be needed by anyone with a health condition who experiences difficulties in things like mobility, vision, or cognition. How many people do you know who are having rehabilitation? Not many I would say! So how many people need rehabilitation in the world?

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  • Cieza, Alarcos, et al. “Global estimates of the need for rehabilitation based on the Global Burden of Disease study 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.” The Lancet (2020).

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Online Physiotherapy

Put simply this is Physio done via either telephone or video over the internet. Skype and facetime are examples of this.

Contrary to popular belief online physiotherapy can be very effective and it can help the same injuries that face to face physio can help. I have helped many people with injuries such as disc prolapses, tennis elbow, neck pain and much more).