Especially if you're suffering from chronic pain or a serious long-term injury, it can be hard to bring yourself to trust a new healthcare professional. With something like physiotherapy, you're really putting your comfort into a stranger's hands - but naturally, that additional stress is not going to help your condition.  In the efforts of reducing these concerns and to prove exactly how experienced the person you're trusting is, here's a rundown of the kinds of qualifications that physiotherapy requires, and what they involve.