During confinement, it is impossible to go to your dentist, ophthalmologist or even your physiotherapist. However, some patients need follow-up, alerts Pascale Matthieu, president of the order of physiotherapists who calls on the government to allow them to use telemedicine, at the microphone of Europe 1. A request to which Olivier Véran, the Health Minister is expected to access it next week.
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In the context of confinement, we have a great difficulty, it is that patients will not stop being sick, especially the most fragile of them ", worries Pascale Matthieu, evoking in particular people suffering from sclerosis in plaque, Parkisnon's disease or who have been victims of strokes, "for whom physiotherapy is essential".
"Delaying care can be a big problem"
"At first, when we had the idea that it would only be a fortnight of confinement, obviously, it was quite possible to wait two weeks. But now, it becomes an urgent need for most of them ", she adds, also citing people with chronic conditions.
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"You have patients who are very imitated in terms of maintaining autonomy and it is thanks to the movements and exercises that they do, controlled by the physiotherapist, that they manage to stay in good condition", specifies- she still before concluding that "the fact of postponing the care longer can pose big problems for some of them".