World Physiotherapy advocates for:
- respect of a patientPatient: An individual who is the recipient of physical therapy and direct interventions. A person for whom a health service accepts responsibility for treatment and/or care. Individuals who are recipients of physical therapy may also be referred to as clients or service users. See also Client, Service userView full list of glossary terms’s/clientClient: a person, group or organisation eligible to receive services either directly or indirectly from a physiotherapist. The client is: an individual who is not necessarily sick or injured but who can benefit from a physiotherapist’s consultation, professional advice, or services; or a business, school system, and others to whom physiotherapists offer services. See also Patient See also Service userView full list of glossary terms’s dignity, integrity, and self-determination
- protection of the legal status of the patientPatient: An individual who is the recipient of physical therapy and direct interventions. A person for whom a health service accepts responsibility for treatment and/or care. Individuals who are recipients of physical therapy may also be referred to as clients or service users. See also Client, Service userView full list of glossary terms/clientClient: a person, group or organisation eligible to receive services either directly or indirectly from a physiotherapist. The client is: an individual who is not necessarily sick or injured but who can benefit from a physiotherapist’s consultation, professional advice, or services; or a business, school system, and others to whom physiotherapists offer services. See also Patient See also Service userView full list of glossary terms in connection with the healthHealth: 'Health' is defined in the WHO constitution of 1948 as a state of complete physical, social and mental well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. See also Health promotionSee full list of glossary terms system and the physiotherapistSee Physical therapist
- patients’/clients’ rights to a relationship based on trust, reliability, and confidentiality between them and the physiotherapistSee Physical therapist
