Physiotherapy and Obesity The latest medical literature on the issue of obesity has factored in the role that physiotherapy plays in preventing or mitigating escalation of overweight and obesity among children and adults. One of the most significant findings from these studies is that "…exercise combined with diet is effective as a weight loss and weight management strategy. Further, regular exercise has health benefits even if no weight is lost" (Canadian Physiotherapy Association, 2008). Exercise with diet may be common knowledge to people, but it is critical that the assumption that exercise with diet can improve an individual's health be proven with empirical data as supporting evidence. As supporting evidence to the finding that exercise indeed provides health benefits to the individual, the Canadian Physiotherapy Association (2008) presented clinical data showing the positive effects of exercise to hypertension, diabetes and hyperlipidemia. Specifically, exercise, even without weight loss, helped improve patients' diastolic blood pressure, triglycerides and fasting glucose levels.

Given this clinical data about the role that physiotherapy (through exercise) plays in improving one's physical health and condition, it is necessary to establish how the information mentioned above will be relevant to the target audience of this discussion, which could be as immediate as one's community or, on a larger scale, to the whole country...

More than just answering how physiotherapy helps a person with an obesity problem, it is more relevant to discuss physiotherapy and obesity from a different standpoint. One perspective that can be looked at is how physiotherapy contributes to mitigating obesity problems, which, in effect, helps improve people's quality of life. Quality of life encompasses all aspects of an individual's life, which includes not only physical health, but also psychological wellness and social health of the individual. Physiotherapy as a means to mitigating obesity is an important and relevant issue to the community, country and the world because it brings about a change in the individual's quality of life. Thus, the research question for this study is: how can physiotherapy contribute to the achievement of quality of life through mitigation of an obesity problem? This new research question provides a more relevant and interesting angle to the issue of physiotherapy's role to mitigating obesity problems.
The first assumption that aims to validate the hypothesis that physiotherapy contributes to quality of life by mitigating obesity problems is the common knowledge that a healthier body/physical condition leads to a longer time for an individual to live his/her life to the fullest. As already established in the earlier discussion, preventing an obesity problem contributes to improved physical condition, such as reduction in diastolic blood…