Original Research Article
Year: 2021 | Month: March | Volume: 8 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 219-232
Knowledge and Perception of Physiotherapist towards Video Based Rehabilitation for Balance - As an Adjunct to Conventional Methods of Intervention: A Questionnaire Based Study
Abhijeet Arun Deshmukh1, Pooja Damodar Pande2
1B.P.Th., M.P.T., Associate Professor, Department of Neuro-Physiotherapy, VSPM’s College Of Physiotherapy, Digdoh Hills, Hingna, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.
2Internee student, VSPM’s College of Physiotherapy, Digdoh Hills, Hingna, Nagpur.
Corresponding Author: Abhijeet Arun Deshmukh
ABSTRACT
Introduction: Balance impairment is common in various older adults to pediatrics conditions. Using video based method, is an acceptable, useful and effective teaching, screening tool and provides feedback about performance, which could be useful and effective in improving clinical skills berg balance scale (BBS) and paediatric balance scale (PBS).This gold standard measures can be used for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes in clinical practices. Physiotherapist adoption of video based practices also may be limited by many factors that commonly arise when considering changes to health service delivery.
Material and Methods: A Questionnaire based Observational study was performed on 369 Physiotherapy Interns (185), post- graduates (102) and Physiotherapy Professionals (82) dealing with patients having balance impairment. A self-structured questionnaire including 14 questions was validated from MET cell of the same college, distributed and data was collected.
Data analysis and Results: Data was analysed in statistical software STATA, version 10.1;2011. Descriptive statistics was calculated (e.g. No. of year of experience and age). Qualitative variables (e.g. knowledge) was summarised by frequency and percentage. The positive perception of interns, post-graduates and Physiotherapy professionals was expressed in percentage along with 95% confidence interval. Most physiotherapist are aware about BBS and PBS, and feel useful, convenient, not complicated, easy to do follow up and track recovery via video based rehabilitation for balance whereas few felt its time consuming and difficult to keep documentation of video.
Conclusion: Nearly, 93.8% Physiotherapists strongly feels that the video based BBS and PBS are useful, acceptable and effective as an adjunct to conventional Physiotherapy.
Keywords: Balance, Video Based Rehabilitation, Perception, Knowledge, Physiotherapist.
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