Terapias Físicas Básicas - Unidad 1

Methods, actions, and techniques using physical means to treat, prevent, recover, and adapt individuals with somatic, psychosomatic, or organic dysfunctions, or to maintain their health.

Scientific and artistic treatment using physical means, curing and preventing diseases, promoting health, recovering, enabling, rehabilitating, and adapting individuals with psychophysical dysfunctions to maintain adequate health.

Includes assessments using electric and manual tests evaluating nerve and muscle function, functional capacity, joint range of motion, and vital capacity. Essential for diagnosis before treatment.

Promoting, maintaining, restoring, and enhancing the health of individuals and improving quality of life, social integration.

Trained professional using physical methods for treating, preventing, promoting, recovering, and rehabilitating psychophysical dysfunctions in patients.

Spanish Association of Physiotherapists.

Combination of psychological and physical impairments.

Examination of a patient's condition, using techniques to measure movement, strength and capacity before any act of care.

Bertrán Rubio's study of using electricity for therapy in 1864.

Introduced by Sebastián Busqué Torró, medical use of exercise in 1865.

A comprehensive facility in Barcelona offering various therapies like kinesitherapy, hydrotherapy, balneotherapy, and electrotherapy in 1872.

Physiotherapy practice influenced by high-quality research, patient preferences, and experienced physiotherapists' knowledge.

Physiotherapy decisions go beyond research findings, considering cultural factors, healthcare policies, and available resources.

Physiotherapy's roots trace back 1500 years to civilizations like China, Egypt, and Mesopotamia who used physical therapies.

Ancient Greek physicians who contributed to early physiotherapy techniques, focusing on bodily movements and massage.

Under the legal instruction, those providing physical therapies in 1857.

Professionals providing assistance, probably focused on basic treatments in 1902.

A role supporting physiotherapists, likely with specific skills and responsibilities in 1953.

A recognized qualification in physiotherapy focusing on specific treatments, likely in 1950s.

Spanish organization, likely responsible for governing standards and practices from 1969.

Regulations that likely defined criteria and standards for physiotherapists; particularly in 1980; possibly the establishment of a specific title.

Physical agents that use heat or cold to treat injuries or pain.

Increased blood flow to a tissue.

Physical agents that use forces to treat injuries.

Sound waves used for deep tissue therapy.

Physical agents that use chemicals for treatment.

Physical agents that use electromagnetic energy for treatments.

Unintended effects of a therapy, sometimes necessary for effectiveness.

Treatment using water or mineral baths.

Medication delivery through the skin using electrical currents.

Improved movement and range of motion caused by therapy.

Physical tools used by physiotherapists as treatment, guided by clinical reasoning and evidence.

Biological and physiological changes resulting from physical agent application.

Methods used to apply physical agents effectively.

Conditions where physical agents are suitable.

Situations where physical agents are NOT suitable.

Historically focused on medical diagnosis and treatment, relying on physicians.

Currently incorporates scientific advancements and theories from other disciplines emphasizing patient-centered care.

Involves collaboration with various healthcare professionals (nurses, psychologists, etc.) for holistic patient care.

Physiological principles of electricity are at the core of its application.

Physical laws are essential for understanding and applying exercise in therapy.

Physiotherapy's inclusion in academic settings.

Collaboration with various health professions for comprehensive patient care.

Physiotherapy draws upon its own theories and theories from related fields such as physics and medicine to understand and treat conditions.