Radiography and Physiotherapy Which is more lucrative
Radiography and Physiotherapy are two courses that are recently gaining recognition in Nigeria. Their services are highly needed in the health care sector and for this reason, lots of aspirants are diving into this profession, It's still a fertile ground to start a career.
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If you are wondering which is more lucrative between Radiography and Physiotherapy, and don't know which to choose, just keep on reading.
The first step in knowing which is more lucrative is to know what the course is, what it entails, job opportunities, salary, and competition.
I will start by telling you what Radiography is, the job opportunities available for radiographers, and their salaries, then move over to physiotherapy.
Finally, we will compare both and draw a conclusion on which is more lucrative between Radiography and Physiotherapy.
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What's Radiography
Radiography is a profession in the health care sector that visualizes internal boys' tissues, organs, and bones with radiation. In other words, Radiography will help you to see the inside of a person's body, and this helps the physicians in the diagnosis and in treating the patient.
The internal body visuals are taken as photos or videos which are being interpreted by a radiologist.
Aside from bringing the internal body structures to view, Radiography helps help in the treatment of cancerous cells. A department in Radiography called therapeutic radiography makes use of ionizing rays to treat cancer.
Job opportunities for Radiography
A lucrative profession must have a secure job opportunity. This is one of the criteria to look out for when considering if Radiography is a lucrative course
Radiography has been in a hideout in Nigeria, but as of today, it has changed, the service of a Radiographer is in high demand in the medical world. A physician needs the visuals of the internal body structures to be able to give the full diagnosis of a patient illness. Also with the increasing rate of Cancer, Radiographers are needed to treat cancer.
In Nigeria, Radiography is very a lucrative profession. It's still very fertile to grow on. The service of a Radiographer is in high demand. And there are only a few Radiographers in the country, so getting a job as a Radiographer will be pretty easy.
Radiography Salary
What's Radiographer's salary, how much does a radiographer earn? these are one of the questions those looking to start a career in radiography often asked.
Considering that Radiography is a lucrative course, the salary structure of a Radiographer is one thing you will look into.
The salary of a radiographer depends on several factors like; years of experience special skills, specialty, and whether it is a government hospital/lab or private. I guess you know government workers earn more than private workers. The average salary of Radiographers in Federal settings is between an N100, 000 to N150,000
while Radiographers in private sectors earn between N80,000 to N120,000 for a start. As the level and year of experience increase, the salary tends to increase. Those in special departments will earn higher.
Now over to Physiotherapy
What's Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy is also known as Medical Rehabilitation in some schools. As you all know Physiotherapy is a professional course and it's one of the allied of medicine.
Physiotherapy is a profession that cares for the physical well-being of a patient. Physiotherapy helps to relieve pains; back pain, neck pain, weakening or stress in muscles and bones, arthritis, cerebral palsy, erbys paralysis, and stroke. They help in making a patient independent and able to walk and recover quickly.
Physiotherapy treats and carries out its services with physical or mechanical agents, like massage, exercises, and other physical modalities.
Physiotherapy is medicine without surgery. And it's a lucrative profession to dive into. Is it more Lucrative than Radiography? you will soon know, just keep reading.
Job Opportunities for Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy is one of those courses that isn't well recognized in Nigeria. Recently things have changed, and the demand for their services is constantly increasing.
Patients are now being referred to physiotherapists to help them correct their physical abnormalities, relieve pain and help them get better fast.
There are lots of job opportunities for physiotherapists, as a physiotherapist you are not restricted to the four walls of a hospital.
A physiotherapist can choose to work in
Hospital
The community health center or clinic
Gp Surgery
Sports teams, clubs
Nursing home
Rehabilitation Center
You can even go into private practice, and open your clinic and gym.
No doubt Physiotherapy is a Lucrative course
Salary of a Physiotherapist
The salary of a physiotherapist varies depending on the place of work and skills.
On average, a Physiotherapist earns N150,000 per month, N1,800,000 per year.
Which is more Lucrative
Now we have come to the crux of this article, which is more Lucrative between Physiotherapy and Radiography.
Physiotherapy and Radiography are two courses that are recently gaining recognition in the medical world, these courses are promising.
Job opportunities are readily available since there are few Radiographers and Physiotherapists in the country.
It will be hard for me to tell which is more lucrative between Radiography and Physiotherapy.
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For me I will go for Radiography, Right now the medical world can't/almost can't do away with radiography. Without radiography, the physicians are blind. Radiography is very promising.
Physiotherapy is also very lucrative without physiotherapy most of these athletes would have turned cripples, and arthritis and body pains and disabilities would have been the order of the day.
Radiography and Physiotherapy are lucrative professions but I will go for Radiography.
Please 🙏 this is my own choice. From the article, I believe you will be able to deduct which is more lucrative.
I urge all aspirants to go for what they like, if you like to see yourself as a physiotherapist in the next five to ten years go for it, if you will like to see yourself as a Radiographer in the next five to ten years, please go for it.
Follow your heart, follow your passion.