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Dora Lewis
Physiotherapist
PT JEMIMA
Growing up, I always knew I wanted to be a health worker. I wanted to be a part of the multidisciplinary team that helped save and improve quality of lives. I wasn’t sure of what it was exactly until I got to my final year in high school and started researching on what other jobs there are in a hospital apart from that of a surgeon and a nurse. That was when I discovered physiotherapy and decided to go for it.
Physiotherapy is a health care profession which assists people to restore, maintain and maximize their strength, function, movement, and overall well-being.
Presently, Physiotherapy Clinical Practice Areas include…
Cardiorespirology
Geriatric physiotherapy (seniors health)
Neurosciences
Orthopaedics
Pediatrics
Physiotherapy Management /Administration
Private Practice
physiotherapy Research
Sports physiotherapy
Obstetrics and gynecology (women’s health)
* Women’s health is probably the area I’m most interested in.
Physiotherapy plays a major role in:
Cardiovascular diseases
Joint arthroplasty
Stroke and it’s physical and neurological deficits
Home care
Falls (especially in the elderly)
Pediatric conditions
Patients pre and post surgery
Musculoskeletal conditions
Low back pain
Intensive care unit
Chronic disease management
Congenital and developmental neurological diseases
Birth deformities such as Erbs palsy
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other respiratory diseases.
Emergency care
There’s so much in physiotherapy the world is not aware of yet, it’s a developing area of study and a limitless world of knowledge and possibilities.
Physiotherapists are an essential part of a patients primary health care and have a great impact on a patients recovery.
From birth to death, I believe that everyone will at one point in their lives require physiotherapy.
I am a member of the Medical Rehabilitation Therapists Board of Nigeria.
