violence and physiotherapy

There's a lot in the news about violence to NHS staff and tonight the BBC is running a documentary about it. I wonder if it's something that physiotherapists face very often. Perhaps it's more likely to happen in certain clinical areas? Emergency room (A&E) work carries a much higher risk but it tends not to be some where that physical therapy goes on. Mental health is another high risk area but again not one which attracts much physical therapy at least in the UK. If there's a hunt for violent incidents should we be also including the occasional thump from a confused patient or is there some way of classifying it? Is this all being thrown in together to distort the view? Any sort of threat is horrible. I was threatened by a patient's partner for supposedly making the patient worse but with hindsight it became clear that the patient's decision to seek treatment and the partners' reactions were all part of some complex game they were playing within the relationship. I had innocently stumbled apon this but became the object of the aggression. Not nice.