I'm a bachelor of physiotherapy student, and without being biased I'll try to answer this, first of all, every medical profession is noble and there's nothing like ''better'' or even comparison between both professions as both serve a different purpose, so after clearing this, I would like to tell you more about physical therapy, it focuses on rehabilitation injury prevention and health promotion. The course is pretty much difficult encompassing anatomy, physiology(whole-body), biochemistry, fundamentals of electrotherapy, and kinesitherapy, pharmacology, pathology, microbiology, psychiatry and psychology, medicine 1, medicine 2, surge
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I'm a bachelor of physiotherapy student, and without being biased I'll try to answer this, first of all, every medical profession is noble and there's nothing like ''better'' or even comparison between both professions as both serve a different purpose, so after clearing this, I would like to tell you more about physical therapy, it focuses on rehabilitation injury prevention and health promotion. The course is pretty much difficult encompassing anatomy, physiology(whole-body), biochemistry, fundamentals of electrotherapy, and kinesitherapy, pharmacology, pathology, microbiology, psychiatry and psychology, medicine 1, medicine 2, surgery 1(general surgery), surgery 2 (orthopedics), PSM, functional diagnosis and therapeutic skills, musculoskeletal physiotherapy, neuro physiotherapy, cardiorespiratory physiotherapy, community physiotherapy(include obstetrics and gynaec, geriatric and industrial therapy.
In neuro physiotherapy, you'll be treating cases such as stroke, spinal cord injury, head trauma, facial nerve palsy, ALS, Parkinson's, etc
in musculoskeletal physiotherapy - fractures, spinal conditions (like spondylolisthesis, spondylitis, PIVD, back pain), sports injuries, muscle sprain, ligaments strains or tears, meniscal injuries, arthritis, etc
cardiorespiratory physiotherapy- COPD, asthma, diabetes, burns, cardiac conditions, etc
community physiotherapy - geriatric care, obs(labor and antenatal care), and in industries
And this is me just scratching the surface, there are several more specialties developed and many upcoming therapies like robotics, etc. Besides the field has flourished in these years.
I even got accepted for BDS through NEET but opted for physiotherapy. I won't throw shade on BDS, but you need to open your own clinic and put up an extensive investment. But if it's worth it in the end then why not
So I would suggest do whatever, just be best at it.
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