Introduction

Nowadays technologies are very useful, even sometimes you think that without technologies you couldn’t live. They are useful in different aspects like sports, medicine, music, art, engineering, etc. The problem with technological instruments is that people become lazier for example the remote control, but I have to say that I couldn’t watch TV with it. With technologies you can get parameters more accurate and with this you will give a good diagnosis. In Physical Therapy the main technologies is internet, but this one is totally useful in all aspects, so other more specific to physical therapy is goniometer and the last one could be microscope.

Internet
This tool like I said before is useful in all aspects, because when you have a doubt you can surf in the internet and the find the answer, instead of to look for in a book, because this could be longer and make your work inefficient. I’m going to tell you my own experience with the famous internet. When I have had to do a work, report or analysis, I looked for information in the internet. In general this is a good way to do it, but sometimes you have to be careful, because not everything that goes online is true.

Goniometer
For physical therapists, this technological instrument is very useful, because this can give us information about the joint of the patient. The goniometer can help us to know range of motion of some joint and with this information we can decide which treatment we can do or how we can do it. We can infer if there is any pathology with the result if they are out of the normal parameters.

Microscope
To science this instrument is indispensable, because most if the advances have been done with one. Of course more technological than we used in the university, because we are beginning in this area, so we have to learn how to use it first o simply to know the basics.

Conclusions
In conclusion I think that without technology, we couldn’t do things with great precision, and take us to a mistake in our treatment to the patient. We can’t forget that the technologies are a “tool”, something that helps us to do best our job, but we musn’t thin that technologies “do” our job. We can not allow that the develop of our mind stops because of the technologies. So we have to receive the help of the instruments and the most important use our mind.

The challenges that my discipline is currently facing are in different areas like technology, social matters and education. In technology, physical therapy has a lot of kind of machines that are used to rehab people with different kind of disability. Also there is another kind of implements like balls, sticks, ropes, weights, etc. The big problem here is that the technological machines are too expensive, so most of the public hospital doesn’t have it, but you compare with a clinic, they have many machines that are very modern. If the physical therapist is working in place where there are not a lot of technologies, he can invent or imagine how he can do an exercise to patient with basic implements. When this occurs, you would know who is a good physical therapist.
Respect to social matters, I think that physical therapy is in a high level, but not so much like medicine. People when think in physical therapy, they always say: Oh! You are going to do a very good massage!!. But if you think in a physical therapist doesn’t do just that. This could be resolve with more publicity of physical therapy, but I really don’t know why people think that, because here in Chile we have an institution very important called “Teletón”. Teletón is popular and with this people can see the function of a physical therapist.
A Physical therapist creates a big connection with his patients, because he stayed during all the rehabilitation of the patient. At the end of the therapy, patients are always very grateful, because the physical therapist changes their lives.
In the third area that I mention at the beginning is education. Respect of this I think that the best place to learn physical therapy is in the University of Chile, because this university was the first one in all the country, so they have a lot of experience. If you decide to study in there, you can be sure that you going to be a excellent physical therapy. After university, you can make different types of training courses. In my opinion I think that these kinds of courses are good, but I would prefer to go another country to do some kind of these training courses, maybe would be better.

Hi everyone today!
I’m going to talk about my faculty. Here in the faculty the infrastucture is very poor. Most of the building are too old and this could be very dangerous in case of a earthquake, because old buildings don’t have the technology than the new ones. In other way the falculty don’t have good computers. The faculty need more green areas. The current computers are so slow and you always have problems to use one, for differents reasons like the password doesn’t work or the Internet is too slow… etc. But there are not only problems for example I can say that the library is very comfortable in winter. You sometimes think that is a little small, because is crowded in period of exams. Other problem here is the parking is too small, so you have to arrive very early in the morning to catch one. All this thing that I mention have to be improved, but the big and the unique problem is the money. There are other kind of problems like the teachers sometimes speak too low, or the teacher doesn’t arrive on time to classes, or something worse like they don’t warn when there are not classes and all the students come and they have to go back home. To this problem we don’t need money. The solution could be to talk with teachers or the faculty contract other. To the first problem, the faculty more money to resolve it, but now the problem is how to get the money?. The real benefits could be the students will be a little bit more motived, but this is not all real. The thing that I’m sure is would be better is with more green areas , places where the sutdent can rest.