What is the difference between a personal trainer and a physiotherapist?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 มี.ค. 2021
- Hi everyone welcome back to the channel my name is Masud. In today’s video we will be talking about the difference between a physiotherapist and a personal trainer.
1. One key difference is in the training of both professionals. A physiotherapist is medically trained and has been educated to a arguably higher standard than a personal trainer. To put this in perspective, a typical physios trains for atleast 3-4 years before they are able to go out and practice professionally. A personal trainer can do a 8-12 week course and go out and train people and call themselves a personal trainer.
2. The objective of a physiotherapist is to get your health back up to a level where you can carry out your activities of daily living w/o pain/discomfort. This requires a deeper understanding of how the body works as you’re working with people who aren’t fully healthy yet. A personal trainer on the other hand main objective is to help you lose weight or gain muscle so you’re usually working with someone who has full capacity to carry out their activities of daily living independently already but wants to improve their body from their already fully functional state.
3. The physio and personal trainer would probably overlap in their ability to prescribe exercise to target specific muscle groups but a physios understanding of the body will allow them to be more specific with their prescription. Perhaps it is an action such as tying shoelaces or brushing hair that aggravates the patients symptoms in their shoulder or lower back and as a physio you would firstly assess that patients joints by doing tests, you’d look at their range of movement in depth, you’d look at their muscle power. You may assess the joints above and below the affected joint and try to workout the relationship between them to see what exactly is it that is causing their pain and then use your knowledge of exercise to give to that person taking into consideration their level of fitness, age, contraindications , medical history , home life , pretty much everything so that the they can have the best possible outcome from your treatment. I’m not sure if a personal trainer goes into such depth but this just paints a picture.
4. Both jobs are rewarding as you’re helping someone improve the quality of their life.
5. I’d argue that because of the lower entry barrier to becoming a personal trainer for the reasons mentioned above it diminishes your ease to be successful in it. Usually the more competitive an industry is the harder it is to be successful and earn a lot of money and vice versa.
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Love this video Masud!
Physiotherapy is such a broad discipline. I did my personal training course in 2 months (both level one and level two), whereas my physio course was a gruelling 2 years!
I massud I don’t know if you remember but I left a comment saying I had an interview. I got in! All thanks to your videos! Thank you so much :)
Good luck on the course Alfie 👊🏼
What I learnt from you now:
Physios are from a medically trained background.... got it! 📝
There are also many branches/areas of physio!
Thanks for this ... I’m trying to understand the very basics as I have an interview at a Physio clinic - in admin/reception area.
Thought it was best to try to get a basic understanding of what Physiotherapists do 😇
I’ve only worked in Psychology clinics which is a totally different area!
This may be a silly qn - but how much does admin staff need to understand in regards to physio to be able to assist and communicate effectively with clients at reception area?
Or from your experience, do you find that admin /reception staff mainly handle payments and appointments without requiring to know too much about it?
Sorry if it’s a silly qn.... I just want to be prepared as I can for the interview this week 🤓
Hey Sofeea, thank you for commenting. I wouldn’t expect the admin staff to know a huge amount but just enough to be able to understand a clients inquiry and help them.
So if you are preparing for your interview I think these videos would be enough (research wise). Your employer will have their own expectations of you so I’m not sure how much you need to know exactly but as I say I don’t suspect it to be a lot.
Good luck 😉
@@masudsaeediphysiotherapy8689 Aawwww thank you for responding Masud! I’ve enjoyed watching your videos - they have genuinely helped give me an understanding of physiotherapy 😌🙏
I'n currently training to be a personal trainer and then looking to do an access course to go into Physiotherapy at Uni. I've found your videos very helpful thank you! I guess my question about this is, is a Physiotherapist in an NHS setting different to a Private setting? In NHS it will be people with chronic issues or out patients. Where as in private, I suppose you treat less acute issues to help people get better? But then could you use skills from personal training for prevention, eg, so exercises such as weight training, or yoga stretches to help strengthen areas to prevent issues coming up again, or does physiotherapy cover this too?
Hi Mandy, thanks for commenting. NHS physios can see a variety of people depending on the setting which is similar to private so not at all different.
Outpatients/MSK - usually the most able bodied/healthy
Neuro - people with neurological impairments
Respiratory - people with pulmonary issues and breathing problems.
These are the most common areas for a physio to work in within the NHS. You can find private clinics that treat neurological and respiratory impairments of patients but they’re not as common as a private MSK(outpatients) so most private clinics see MSK conditions normally..
Hope this helps to answer your question.
Hi Masud, i am trying to become a Physiotherapist assistant and have an interview for a job next week, what's the best way to prepare for this do you have any recommendations? thanks a lot
Hi..im frm india and I completed my bachelor's in physiotherapy. I'm moving to london in few dys can u pls help me wat is the process to work in london as a physiotherapist
Hi Masud,
I'm first year Physiotherapist student, and I do have an interest in training elite athletes and being extremely holistic in my physiotherapy career.
My question is whether you would advise me to also do a personal training course alongside my physiotherapy degree? Would it be worth it? I feel I could do it easily. I was also thinking about doing a sports nutrition course next to my degree as well (during the summers)
What do you think? Good idea? Or waste of time?
Hey bro,
It’s a tricky one as my personal opinion is different but I would say do what you feel is right for you.
I would say to use that break and relax because you’ll need it before the 2nd year.
If you get bored and restless then yea just crack on with the courses, they’ll keep you busy and I guess you could add another title/qualification to your resume.
But personally I don’t think they will be that valuable at this part of your career since it’s so early and I guess your end goal after this will be a physiotherapist .. and you’ll probably go for a physio job after you finish which is in about 2-3 years time .. and your first physio employer won’t really care about a sports nutrition course or personal training you did over the summer in your first year.. it’s quite meaningless.
Better to leave all the CPD stuff for later in your career once you’ve got the basic physio skills locked down ;)
A better idea would be to try and reach out to professional sports clubs and make friends with a physio who could give you pointers on how to get in the industry with their network.
Hi I'd also like to work with athletes as a physio, and I personally think a personal training course can be useful, however its not that important. I know someone who is a physio and he work with soccer athletes he did some courses after or while he was doing his degree and he also has some kind of personal training course. He also treat or train people privately as a side hustle so its a good idea. I will do the same!
Hi Masud, I’m 14 and interested in the physiotherapy field. Could you make a video about what the works like at uni.
Hey Rory, sure what exactly would you like to find out mate ? Let me know specifically and I’ll do my best
@@masudsaeediphysiotherapy8689 what kind of things would be good to study/know or do before uni and what the mix between practical and bookwork is like. Thanks Masud!
@@rorydoherty4125 I’m on it bud!
@@masudsaeediphysiotherapy8689 cheers mate
hey Masud I have a doubt regarding a degree if don't have a science background in 11th and 12th will I be able to study physiotherapy at a university.
Probably not, but check with the uni you want to attend. They all generally look for some science background.
Hi Masud, I have an interview tomorrow and I'm kinda nervous actually, I would like to ask you if you know how I can describe if they gave a picture to describe it and what is like I have to include for example a disabled child sitting in a wheelchair something like that? If you know please let me know
Hi Samrey, please elaborate more on the question so it’s clear. I’ll try to answer
Can I contact you on Instagram if you have please
Yes go ahead, no need to ask :)
I have sent you a message on Instagram Masud
Hi Masud,
Thank you for all your work, your statements are amazing. PLEASE help me out. (any other welcome)
I would like to open a discussion about Kinesiology and Physiotherapy field. Could you maybe do a video about it? Do you agree that people with kinesiology knowledge are able to treat people with specific or unspecific pain? or are able to do a rehabilitation from the start of the injury? I mean, in my country (Slovenia) physios are not divided in different areas which is poor and not right. And as far as I know, private physios are much more successful with their patients than public sector (private physios usually welcome kinesiologists to cooperate with them). So my point is... If you have a degree in kinesiology (where you study anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, sports medicine, etc. ) and you really understand movement... why shouldn't you work with certain patients? Physios and kinesiologists in my country are usually very divided and physios have "higher ego" and they think they know everything. While kinesiologists are up for learning more about pathology by themselves and they can get pretty close in the knowledge with physios.
thank you in advance.
Hi Ivana,
Thank you for commenting.
What you’re saying may be true in that similar things are covered however to practice as a physiotherapist you need to have medical training which kinesiologists don’t have.
I mean hands on practical training in a healthcare setting like a hospital. That’s one of the distinct differences in study for physiotherapy and kinesiology.
One is theoretical heavy the other practical. However I may be wrong about this as I don’t keep up with new advancements in education. So please excuse me.
I can understand why those physiotherapists would feel like they have higher ego… it’s the name of ‘physiotherapist’ and it’s been accepted by society as this role within the healthcare/sport industry which is glamourised at times so a lot of the general public know who they are and respect them…
But kinesiologists on the other hand are not talked about so much so people don’t give them their true recognition and this is reflected in the behaviour of other therapists and people in general.
To conclude I do agree with you and think they do have their place and could work alongside perhaps a sports physio in a club alongside other medical staff.
Just sharing my thoughts , let me know what you think ?
Kind regards
Masi
I think kinesiologists can treat people with specific pain
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Thank you for your answer.
Glad to hear your opinion and I liked the fact where you said that they could work ALONGSODE physiotherapists.
In my country, physios don’t study in medical school! They do just 3 years on physio faculty and it is really hard to get in. So.. basically they have the same amount of years in studying as kinesiologists do(they study on Faculty of sport).
Next, people say that physios are “afraid” they would lose their function in society if kinesologists would be able to take care that people would finally move healty and functionally and injuries would be less and less common.
And lastly, i really feel like in practise, these two jobs really go hand in hand and there is so much information and research on the internet if you need upgrade in any knowledge. And kinesios should learn from physios and physios also from kinesios. Its all about human body.
Obviously I come from the field of kinesiology 🙃. And from my point of you I believe that people should do what they are trained for and what they are capable of and should be thinking outside the box and keep up with the research. However sometimes i feel like people overlook us and physios look us from above and exclude us 🙃.
Thank you for your content it is useful and you seem like a very nice person. 😇
Assalamu alaykum, whilst doing your physio course, do you have to remove clothes to partake in the practicals?
Walakum salaam, yes you may have to but you will usually wear clothes for exercise and if you don’t feel comfortable doing this that’s OK. You can work around it but yes physio is quite practical and there is a lot learning about techniques and movements which you can’t do fully clothed.
Assalam O Aliakum!
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To be fair anyone can become a physio, the degree requirements are very low. As for status aren't physiotherapists just failed medical school applicants? Good luck with your career ;) - part time personal trainer, mbchb student (UOB)
🔥 Well played Ajmal, personally I can’t relate but I’d be interested to see you say that to your physio colleagues the next time a patient has built up secretions and you ask for ‘chest physio’ .. 😉
@ajmal Have to disagree with you mate, I personally declined an offer from 2 medical schools to join a physiotherapy program, I still wanted to do healthcare but medicine seemed quite draining and hectic. So no physiotherapists aren’t just failed medical school applicants :)
@@bilal3791 no you didn't get 2 medical school offers :)
@@ajmalmohammed8027 whatever helps you fall asleep at night, cheers