[Physiotherapeutic service of the Irkutsk region: present status, problems, and prospect].

Physiotherapy is currently undergoing a period of stagnation. Along with the existing systemic economic problems of modern public health, the deepening of this negative situation in physiotherapy is promoted by the protracted period of the formation of the new specialty of physical and rehabilitation medicine physician, the absence of its legal base, federal state educational standards, which creates a number of misunderstandings of its promises and demand for physiotherapists in near future.