On September 18, the liberal physiotherapists are called upon to close their office. At the origin of this movement, the anger at the postponement of an increase in their prices, initially scheduled for July 2025 and now postponed on January 1, 2026. The main union of the profession, the FFMKR, denounces a government decision taken following an alert on an alert on an alert on an alert of more than 0.5 % of health expenses, which exceeds the objectives set in the funding law.
Why the physiotherapists denounce the postponement of pricing increases
During the 2023 negotiations with health insurance, the physiotherapists had accepted “Very strong geographic and demographic constraints“In exchange for a revaluation of their acts. But these promised increases will not arrive before 2026. The union is already afraid of a new identical scenario: expert alert in June 2026, then postponement of the planned revaluations. To avoid this, the FFMKR claims that the tariff increases expected in July are advanced on March 31, before the next budget assessment.
In a statement, the president of the National Council of the Order of Masseurs-Kinesitherapists, Pascale Mathieu, wanted to “send practitioners by expressing her”Support in all the difficulties that we arewe will in an unstable political context and in the face of public decisions that permanently weaken the profession“. Pascale Mathieu alerts the state of emergency that affects all practitioners:”This situation affects the entire profession, liberals as employees share the same difficulty in exercising a demanding and essential profession without recognition and means being there“.
The actions scheduled for September 8 and the strike of 18
The FFMKR launched on September 8, “on September 8Recordable actions“, including the third -party third party strike and the judgment of remote transmission. A symbolic gesture, the reversal of professional plates, is also one of the mobilizations planned. The highlight of this challenge will be the closure of the firms on Thursday, September 18.
This mobilization is part of a tense climate. Pascale Mathieu denounced in her press release that “For years, physiotherapists have only benefited from tiny revaluations. The health segur, although beneficial, has not compensated for previous blockages in health establishments. For the liberals, the few cents harvested after years without increase have been made at the cost of very high concessions, but today only constraints remain. They weigh on the students, required to finance more and more expensive training alone, and confronted with uncertain perspectives, and on professionals whose patients undergo access to physiotherapy care more and more limited“.
The physiotherapists therefore join the pharmacists, another health profession, which also plans to close their establishments on September 18. Pharmacists demonstrate the government decision to reduce their margins on generic drugs, which will negatively impact their income.
The demands of the profession and the call to support
Beyond the revaluization calendar, the FFMKR claims “the possibility of invoking additional fee exceedations” And “the generalization, throughout the territory, of direct access to physiotherapists“, Without prior medical prescription. According to the union, the purchasing power of practitioners has dropped by 20 % in ten years.
The President of the Order insists on the consequences for patients: “This economic context directly threatens access to care, and patients already suffer the consequences. We measure weariness, sometimes anger, but also the deep concern that crosses the profession. It is difficult to continue to meet public health needs under these conditions. Rest assured that we relentlessly alert the public authorities to the consequences of the lack of recognition of our skills, so little mobilized in health policies, and the lack of prospective vision concerning our demography and the needs of the population“.
She concludes by reaffirming her commitment to the physiotherapists: “On this symbolic day, rest assured that the order will remain by your side, while respecting its missions, to defend the quality of care and the essential place of physiotherapists in our health system“.