A Study to Explore the Current Physiotherapy Private Practises in the City of Chennai

Physiotherapy proposed to be important at rehabilitation services in developing countries, yet remains to be a referral profession with the private practices in India. The dominant private sector faces a radical change in health and demands organisations to achieve the productivity and performance. Increasing expectations of patients and competition from different healthcare players, development of new technologies, and advancements in Physiotherapy have created a need to explore the challenges faced by the current private Physiotherapy practises.

The aim of this study is to explore the challenging factors that influence the current private Physiotherapy practises in the city of Chennai. This study was conducted with 92 chief Physiotherapists who were currently practising as private practitioners in the city of Chennai. A convenient random sampling was applied and was conducted as a field study. The interviewer collected the data through a well framed structured questionnaire to obtain the well-considered opinions of the respondents.

The two main challenges observed in this study at the current private Physiotherapy practices were standardization and the need for speciality services in Physiotherapy practises.

The current practice was incorporated by young Physiotherapists. This yields a higher potential for the young physiotherapists to take up the challenge of addressing the limitations and exploring the opportunities in uplifting and expanding the current practices. Most of the current practices were independent which in turn controlled by the Physiotherapist, provides a healthy concept to expand their current business. Physiotherapist practises in specialized fields but the projection of their specialized practices were very narrow. Most practises have a general practice, so the speciality of services was very focused to a short extent. Standardization of Physiotherapy practises, creating awareness for speciality practises and doing a full-time basis practices could untimely develop and expand the current private Physiotherapy practices.