MILANO (ITALPRESS) – Physiotherapy at the centre of the debate and of the comparison to “FIF, Professional Exhibition of Physiotherapy” which has just ended. From March 27 to March 29, the international physiotherapist community met at the Allianz MiCo in Milan to discuss, discuss and update. At the event, even this year, OFI could not miss, the Interprovincial Order of the Physiotherapists of Milan. The OFI stand has been a reference point for a three-day scientific study. During the many meetings, which also attended institutional representatives and many students, the increasingly strategic role of physiotherapy in prevention, management of chronic pathologies and safety of care has been put at the centre, confirming the centrality of the profession in contemporary welfare paths. “It is our third year of participation in FIF – said Angelo Giovanni Mazzali, president of the Interprovincial Order of the Physiotherapists of Milan – and for us it is a very important event, fundamental for contact with our members. In these contexts we are able to convey to them some concepts, especially this year they are those of seeing a physiotherapy all round”. “physiotherapy – continued Mazzali – is evolving a lot compared to the concepts of prevention, care and rehabilitation. Now we have so many new branches, for example the palliation, within which the physiotherapist is expressing all his professionalism. Then there is the question of artificial intelligence that is increasingly interlinking with those that are the concepts of rehabilitation.” Among the most interesting moments was the comparison with young future physiotherapists, a large group of young people attending the University of Brescia visited the fair: “It was beautiful – said Piero Ferrante, President of the National Federation of Physiotherapists Orders – to see a university that sends us graduates, has done well to the heart. Physiotherapy is increasingly needed. Our task as a political representative institution of the health profession of physiotherapist is to give the new generations a physiotherapy that is where it deserves to be”. Among the focus on the OFI stand was the prevention of chronic pathologies such as obesity, diabetes and hypertension. Space was also dedicated to patient management in a home context while, among the most promising moments of perspective, there was the meeting entitled “The therapy and rehabilitation in the right hands”, with the participation of the councillors of the Lombardy Region, Giulio Gallera, Marco Bestetti and Maria Rozza (III Permanent Health Commission), who favoured direct comparison between professionals and institutional representatives. To open that event was Andrea Vianello, journalist and president of A.L.I.C.e (Association for Fighting at the Ictus Cerebrale) who in 2019 was hit by Ictus. Vianello told his experience, in previous days he had been subjected to cervical manipulations practiced by professionals not properly trained and non physiotherapists. Although the nexus causes-effect between manipulations and stroke is not scientifically certified, doctors on several occasions linked them: “When you are a victim of a stroke, as I happened – said Vianello – finishing in the right hands of physiotherapists is our future. The stroke often leaves important motor damage and not only cognitive damages and are the physiotherapists who, with their hands, help us and with their expertise guide us in the rehabilitation path, crucial for the quality of our lives”. -photo f03/Italpress – (ITALPRESS).
