Precision Health: A Primer for Physiotherapists

Health care provision is changing, and so is the information we use to guide decisions related to patient care. Increasingly, we will need to deal with genetics and ‘big data’ in the context of clinical practice. Indeed, commercial packages for consumer genetic testing are already widely available, and devices enabling self-monitoring of health are in daily use by many of our patients. “Precision health” (distinct from “precision medicine”) provides a model, which allows us to bring our genome together with our external environment (lifestyles, societal influences etc.) and eventually, our transient internal environment (reflected by ‘omics’), to optimise disease prevention and care.
Source: Physiotherapy - Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Tags: Debate Article Source Type: research