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Definition of Physiotherapist
1. Noun. Therapist who treats injury or dysfunction with exercises and other physical treatments of the disorder.
Specialized synonyms: Massager
Generic synonyms: Healer, Therapist
Derivative terms: Physical Therapy, Physiotherapy
Definition of Physiotherapist
1. Noun. A therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Physiotherapist
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Physiotherapist
1. A physical therapist. See: physical therapy. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Physiotherapist
Literary usage of Physiotherapist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Inclusive Education at Work: Students with Disabilities in Mainstream Schools by Oecd (1999)
"Often the physiotherapist and advisory teachers are instrumental in helping bids
for equipment needs through the health authority bureaucracy. ..."
2. American Medicine (1920)
"No greater mistake has been made by a physiotherapist, neurologist or orthopedist
than to assume or state that the acute stage of a traumatic synovitis, ..."
3. The Selfish Pig's Guide to Caring by Hugh Marriott (2003)
"But the lecturer, a physiotherapist, said these problems were individual ones to me
... After two weeks I contacted the physiotherapist and reminded her. ..."
4. Radiant Healing: The Many Paths to Personal Harmony and Planetary Wholeness by Bellamy Isabel, Isabel Bellamy, Donald MacLean, Maclean Donald (2005)
"While Gerda was working as a physiotherapist in a clinic in Norway, she found
she was able to change her clients' behaviour patterns through body ..."
5. The Surgical Clinics of North America by Robert E. Hermann, Avram M. Cooperman (1922)
"These cases belong to the intelligent physiotherapist, not to the surgeon.
In these proper hands they mostly do well. Case 13.—M. Age fifty-two. ..."
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