INTEGUMENTARY REHABILITATION- AN IGNORED AREA IN PHYSICAL THERAPY

Abstract

Besides many other health related fields, Physical therapy is expected to grow with an average rate of 40%
in 20171. New generation entering in the field of physiotherapy are experiencing revolutionary changes.
Integumentary rehabilitation is one of undergoing radical changes as the research work is revealing the
anonymities of complex manners of the wound healing, tissue reparation, deprivation and revival of tissues.
Evidence-based practices bring innovation and new technologies helping in the wound healing, but it is an
ignored field in Pakistan, where physiotherapists lack in knowledge of Integumentary rehabilitation. Rehabilitation
teams are working for about five decades on the dynamic changes occurring in wound care
concept2.