Title: Patients' Knowledge about Physiotherapy. Objectives: To contact representatives of foreign professional organizations to determine whether they were surveyed public knowledge about the physiotherapy, and let them answer some solved questions. Secondly, to investigate patients' knowledge about physiotherapy, if they see the difference between a physiotherapist and a masseur and if they properly title or address the physiotherapists. In case of desinformation of the patients to think what would be the best way to improve that. Methods: An english written questionnaire containing 6 questions was sent to the representatives of professional organizations by e-mail. The survey among Czech patients was conducted using a structured questionnaire consisting of 10 questions. Distribution took place in Prague and Pardubice. Results: Only 31% of the representatives of the professional organizations reported that the survey about the public knowledge about the physiotherapy was conducted but the document could not be obtained. 77% of the representatives also stated that patients with no previous experience with the physiotherapy rather know what is the content of this field and 69% also believed that the patients used name / surname most commonly in addressing the physiotherapists. 38% said that the...

Cette recherche doctorale concerne la professionnalisation des masseurs-kinésithérapeutes. Le courrier électronique, une des nombreuses formes de l’écriture professionnelle, est utilisé dans cette recherche comme un analyseur (Lourau, 1969). Les courriels modifient les pratiques professionnelles et en même temps ils permettent d’observer la professionnalisation des masseurs-kinésithérapeutes, comprise comme institutionnalisation de la profession, dans leur vie quotidienne. En m’appuyant sur une démarche ethnographique et sur le cadre théorique de l’analyse institutionnelle, je relève dans le quotidien des masseurs-kinésithérapeutes salariés les changements de pratiques, de valeurs ainsi que les résistances aux transformations en cours.Le parcours de la chercheuse, ici praticienne-chercheuse, est pris en compte en ce qu’il est lui-même impliqué dans l’objet de recherche. L’analyse des implications professionnelles des masseurs-kinésithérapeutes salariés est menée pour comprendre le processus de professionnalisation et d’universitarisation à partir des observations de terrain.En modifiant les pratiques de communication et d’organisation autour du patient, le courriel agit également sur la structuration du corps professionnels et sur l’activité quotidienne des masseurs-kinésithérapeutes. Cependant, comme en résistance à la progression du numérique, l’attachement à la centralité du corps dans les implications professionnelles des masseurs-kinésithérapeutes salariés reste central. / This doctoral research grant is about physiotherapists’ professionalization. E-mails, one of the numerous forms of professional writing, are employed as an analyzer in this research (Lourau, 1969). As e-mails modify professional practices, they allow us to notice physiotherapists’ professionalization, understood as a daily life institutionalization of their job. Based on an ethnographical approach and on the theoretical setting of institutional analysis, I’m taking, in employed physiotherapists’ daily life, their changes of practices, of values and their reluctance to current developments.The researcher’s record, here a practitioner-researcher, is taking into consideration because it is also involved in the research work. Salaried physiotherapists’ professional involvement analysis is taken to understand professionalization and universitarisation process, from ground observations. By changing communication and organization practices, e-mails are also working on professional body structure and on physiotherapists’ daily practice. As a reluctance to digital progress, the attachment to patient’s body central place in professional physiotherapists’ involvement stay crucial.