Problems With Physical Therapy

Physical Therapists are healthcare professionals who help injured and ill people to improve their movement and manage their pain. These therapists’ play an important role for treatment, rehab, prevention of chronic conditions, illnesses, and injuries. Physical Therapist help people from all ages who are limited in their abilities to move and perform functional activities used in their everyday life. These people have various places in which they can work in including hospitals, home health agencies, schools, sports and fitness facilities and nursing homes. However physical therapist are now facing problems with their pay due to the government cutting hours and having fewer patients.
People who seem to have cerebral palsy, sprains, and fractures
The causes to this is the changes that the government is making with it’s medicare and medicaid. On 2011 house representative Jim Gerlach had the idea to repel outpatient physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech pathology. This proposed act has not been decided, however they are still waiting for the committee chair to make the decision. Another issue that is being faced it that they are also not allowed to treat patients in which had medicare and are wanting to pay cash at a physical therapist owned practice. The cause of not being able to treat these patients really brings down the patient population drastically. The patients who are making this change are senior citizens who are living longer and have work all their lives to be able to pay out of their pocket. The effects that these causes have is that it leads the physical therapist to have less patients which means less job; less money. It also causes jobs to close down since they don’t have patients to treat. This is why many people are not so happy with the changes that the government has taken over and applied. This leads to why people protest for a fair and reasonable use of the medicare and
At the end of the day they are the ones who make the rules on peoples insurance, which might help some people however with harm other who are totally dependable since it is their job. Some of the therapist will even have to move to a different place in the state in which they will offer a better pay or even have their part of private insurance taken out of their own paycheck so it can help them have lower rate of taxes owed. Other possible solutions can be that we have to watch what the government will now make the changes with the medicaid and the medicare, and now be aware of what the changes will cause with people and their jobs. Solutions for this problem may not be easy, however it is possible with the help of smart people who are aware of what is happening and are aware of the beneficial things and the harmful things of these changes. These are possible and helpful ways to help the physical