What we do

DevelopingPhysio is developing a physiotherapy teaching curriculum, so that communities with no access to rehabilitation can learn skills and treat patients themselves.
The curriculum is split into thirty teaching modules (these include strokes, amputees, burns, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injuries, polio, leprosy, back pain, fractures and more). All modules are non-linguistic and use picture flow diagrams to guide the student safely through assessment, diagnosis and treatment stages. See how it works…
Why are we doing this..?
80% of people with disabilities live in developing countries (WHO) and 62 countries (one third of the world) have no access to rehabilitation. This is why it is so critical to teach physiotherapy skills to communities in such a way that it empowers their own rehabilitation systems and enables them to treat their patients themselves.

Why we do this

“The probability of children never having attended school is doubled if they have disabilities…”

“Unless disabled people are brought into the development mainstream, it will be impossible to cut poverty in half by 2015 or to give every girl and boy the chance to achieve a primary education by the same date (which is among) the goals agreed to by more than 180 world leaders at the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000” (James Wolfensohn, former President of the World Bank, 2002).

One pair of hands can provide genuine sustainable rehabilitation, please help us pass on these skills.
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DevelopingPhysio teaches a curriculum of physiotherapy internationally, so that communities without access to rehabilitation (health care) may learn the necessary skills to treat their patients themselves.

Why we do this

In 2002, James Wolfensohn, former President of the World Bank, highlighted the significant link between rehabilitation and poverty and why this remains such a global issue:
“Unless disabled people are brought into the development mainstream, it will be impossible to cut poverty in half by 2015 or to give every girl and boy the chance to achieve a primary education by the same date, which is among the goals agreed to by more than 180 world leaders at the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000″

Within his statement lies a question: If qualified therapists are both willing and able to provide the help needed, then why does one-third of the world remain without access to such offers of aid?

“80% of people with disabilities live in developing countries (WHO) and 62 countries (one third of the world), have no access to sustainable rehabilitation”

It is in the light of this that  the trials of our rehabilitation modules matter so much. We believe they will lead to enabling communities that most need such aid to be in a position  to treat their patients entirely themselves within the next two years. And the trials to date are proving positive! See how it works…

Current trials

The physios trialling our modules  work with those communities most in need of it and the icons below link to what they are doing.
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