Policy statement: Patients’/clients’ rights in physiotherapy

World Physiotherapy advocates for:

  • respect of a patient’s/client’s dignity, integrity, and self-determination
  • protection of the legal status of the patient/client in connection with the health system and the physiotherapist
  • patients’/clients’ rights to a relationship based on trust, reliability, and confidentiality between them and the physiotherapist
     

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Policy statement cover thumbnail: Patients’/clients’ rights in physiotherapy

Patients’/clients’ rights in physiotherapy

English

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Policy statement cover thumbnail: patients'/clients' rights in physiotherapy (in Japanese)

理学療法における患者/利用者の権利

Japanese

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policy statement: patient/clients rights in physiotherapy (French)

Droits des patients/clients en kinésithérapie

French

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policy statement: patients’/clients’ rights in physiotherapy (Spanish)

Derechos de los pacientes/clientes en fisioterapia

Spanish

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