Reflection on Physiotherapy

Running head: REFLECTION ON PHYSIOTHERAPY
Reflection on physiotherapy
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1REFLECTION ON PHYSIOTHERAPY
Reflection:
Description:
As a student occupational therapist, I once worked with a senior physiotherapist to take
care of a patient who had left femur operation recently. After visiting the client’s home, I was
supposed to interact with patient and support the physiotherapist during bed transfer assessment
and bed mobility at home environment assessment. Although I had no practical experience in
conducting these kind of assessment, however with the guidance of the physiotherapist, I learnt a
lot about rapport building and ways to gather information
Feelings:
Initially I was very nervous regarding the process. I tried to be friendly with client and
introduced myself to him. However, I slowly understood the process with the instruction and
feedback of the physiotherapist. By closely monitoring the action of the physiotherapist, I
gradually became more relaxed and took notes to ask question and clarify doubts.
Evaluation:
While conducting bed transfer assessment, I asked the patient regarding any difficulty the
client faced during bed transfer. I was focussed more on taking information from client regarding
any safety issues for client during assessment. However, the physiotherapist made me aware
regarding assessment of height of bed, bed lever and other things around the bed too. The
supervision of the physiotherapist played a crucial role in completing the assessment in the right
manner (Pendleton and Schultz-Krohn 2017). I faced challenges in bed mobility at home
environment assessment as I lacked practical knowledge in the same procedure.