Word physiotherapy day- How should we call ourselves?

This is a positive blog, which people complain I usually dont write about. Well many of us think we are pain experts, movement science specialist (a term encouraged by Carr and shepard) and so on. However, I think having a restricted definition is not defining us fully.
what should be changed.

What is health?
The WHO defines it as -Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

There are 2 parts to this definition- the most salient part is it does not talk just about physical, hence my contention we should not call ourselves- movement science specialist. We are more than that we make or we ought to make persons with disease function in the world not just change their pain or movement.

It took me some years to understand my patients with cerebral palsy are worried more about toilet training rather than kneeling.  Not just pain relief, but again ride their motor bike back to their job. There are many more examples which I need not point to our community as we all have made a great deal of change in our patients beyond just movement. Hence we need to think ourselves and refer ourselves as health care professionals with unique skills, which cannot be restricted to movement or pain alone.  I am not sure exactly how that “unique “should be defined- maybe we can all opine? but it should be more global than pain and movement.
The second part of the WHO definition is sort of technical- really complete absence- is it really possible.

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Hariohm K