Physiotherapy in patients with brain damage aims to achieve the highest degree of autonomy and mobility
physiotherapy in patients with brain damage aims to achieve the highest degree of autonomy and mobility October 26, world day of acquired brain damage (DCA) -physiotherapeutic treatment, within a health care team, favors the person with DCA can return to its average family and maintain their usual activities -in Spain there are 420,000 with DCAa disease caused by a lesion, usually sudden, in brain structures Madrid, October of 2012- the aim of physiotherapy in patients with acquired brain damage (DCA) is to achieve the highest degree of physical autonomy and optimisation of residuals of the patient engines resources, as stated by the General Council of physiotherapists schools of Spain (CGCFE) on the occasion of the held inn of the world day of the disease. For this purpose, apply the measures necessary to prevent secondary complications caused by injury to the brain, preserve the functions, and achieve maximum possible physical, functional and social capacity. Therefore aims that the person can return to its average family and, if possible, school, work and maintain its leisure and sport activities ”, said the Member of the CGCFE, Iban Arrien. Physical therapist develops individualized in the patient with DCA, programs that include the following techniques: mobilization and postural control, treatment of alterations in muscle tone and posture (spasticity and stiffness), techniques to re-educate the alterations of coordination, to acquire and improve the reactions, equilibrium,...
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