The health of the community depends on a large number of people other than medical practitioners and nurses. These can be grouped under the heading of allied health professionals. They include the following:

* Physiotherapists (physios) help people to move by getting them to do exercises or by treating their body with heat or massage-treatment by manipulating muscles and joints with the hands. 

* Occupational therapists (OTs) help people with a disability to perform tasks at home and at work. A disability is a physical or mental condition that makes it difficult to live normally, for examplc blindness or deafness.

* Social workers help pcople to solve their social problems -for example poor housing or unemployment -or family problems.

* Chiropodists, also know as podiatrists, treat conditions affecting the feet.

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