Cristiano Miranda
Brasil University, Brazil
Title: Attention to Patients with Neuro Functional Disorders and their Caregivers
Biography
Biography: Cristiano Miranda
Abstract
Aim:
Currently, the incidence of neurological pathologies presents an important social aspect to be addressed by several specialties in the health area. Individuals with these dysfunctions reveal physical consequences, influencing independence issues related to daily activities.
This extension project aims at physiotherapeutic attention to patients with neurological pathologies and their family caregivers, comprising the needy community of the municipality of Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil, as well as neighboring municipalities.
Learning does not happen, if the one who is involved in the process does not recognize the uniqueness or is aware of the problem that presents itself and the subject is the one who must produce the sense of experience, and then determine it from his thoughts and actions as if will give the learning. Therefore, it becomes fundamental to train and promote training processes for academics.
Objectives:
1) To offer to the patients with neurological pathologies, physiotherapeutic care;
2) To offer to the next of kin of the patients participating in the project, guidelines for patient handling;
3) To offer to the students of the Ultras Physical Therapy course, Canoas campus, learning with the practical approach of the patients.
4) Empowering the teaching, research and extension triad through the production of low cost equipment that will assist patients with neuro functional disorders and their caregivers in the rehabilitation and care processes of these.
The population covered is composed of patients with neurological pathologies of the community and their relatives who seek the clinical school of Physical Therapy of Ulbra, Canoas campus. Physical therapy visits occur weekly. Physiotherapeutic sessions consist of manual techniques taught to undergraduate students during the regular classes of Physical Therapy and, when necessary, in the production of low cost equipment (using PVC pipes, foams and recyclables) for patients. After the visits, patients' cases are duly discussed between teachers and students involved in the project.
Results:
Community Physiotherapy in Childhood:
The project provides physiotherapeutic care to infants and children, from newborns to 12 years old, referred by the University Hospital, Basic Health Units and / or by the community. Physiotherapy students attend to infants and children, with teacher supervision, providing extension activity in Paediatric and Neuropediatric Physiotherapy at the level of secondary and tertiary prevention and health education to infants, children and their families, as well as the role of the physiotherapist in the attention to childhood, generating knowledge and experience to detect early, to evaluate and to treat from the physiotherapeutic point of view patients with alterations in neuro psychomotor development.