Physiotherapist Day has a special program on Bahiana

Physiotherapist Day was celebrated in a special way in Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública. This Tuesday morning, October 13, the Physiotherapy course promoted a series of activities that brought together students, professors, academic leagues and invited professionals at the Cabula Academic Unit.

The program, which had Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy as its central theme, had two conferences with guest physiotherapists Aline Mendonça, who addressed the theme “Pilates: Intelligent Movement” and Alberto Silveira, who spoke about the “Principles of Morphological and Injury Treatments in RPG Souchard" and, subsequently, held the workshop "Experiencing the RPG Souchard technique" which had the monitor of former students of Bahiana and current teachers licensed by RPG Souchard Débora Pereira, Tarsila Secco and Sandra Porciúncula.

"Physiotherapist's Day is a date that must be celebrated by the professional and the student and this is an event that we always do with the massive participation of students and we want them not only to come and watch, but also to be able to actively do something , who feel part of the process. So, the event has been growing a lot and, this year, we didn't open it to the external public, as the internal demand was huge”, declares the coordinator of the Physiotherapy course, Prof. Luciana Bilitário.

She says that the choice of theme aimed to show students other ways in which physiotherapy can be explored. "RPG and Pilates are techniques that are well-worked within physiotherapy and orthotraumatology, but they are global instruments, you work in any area with these trainings, of course within limits, of evaluations of very specific things that only a trained professional will guide, but that work the entirety of the body. So, at this moment, we are looking at this musculoskeletal structure as a whole, regardless of specialty."

“It's always a great pleasure to be at the Bahiana, I graduated here and coming back and being able to contribute with my knowledge so that the physiotherapists here can leave with better information is essential. Along with the course coordination, we seek different approaches to what modern physiotherapy is able to offer them, with the objective of training better professionals and giving the population a health condition that we do not have”, said Prof. Alberto Silveira.

As a high point, he highlighted the realization of the experience provided in the workshop. “It was very interesting for us because not only the lecture, which is the theoretical issue, but, above all, when we went downstairs and did the experience, each one experimenting on their own body because that's what we say: muscle has memory. So, if we do a job like this, they feel it in their own skin, they can assess its importance and how it can improve the quality of life of our patients”.

“What I like most about these meetings is the dynamics, the interval between the theoretical part and the experience. The Scientific Exhibition of Bahiana it is very good for that very reason. This time, the schedule of the Physiotherapist's Day Bahiana it also brought this characteristic of experience, which is what most motivates the students, this marriage between the two experiences”, reported the 8th semester student of Physiotherapy, Lidiane Acácio.

The program also included practical workshops held by academic leagues. Care of the neonatal patient in the ICU was the focus of the participation of the Academic League of Neomatology and Pediatrics (LANEP). The league's coordinating teacher, Kelly Roberta Souza Andrade Caria, reports that, with the workshop, students have the possibility of getting in touch with content that they will only see at the end of the course “this moment is very important, as it is already being given to them. an idea of ​​what reality is, what the future expects, the market in relation to this area”.

Teacher Kelly says that LANEP emerged in the first semester of 2015 at the request of the students themselves. “We have participated in some events at the college, but always with a social nature. We participate in actions in schools in the municipal network of Salvador, where we provide guidance regarding accidents that can happen in childhood. We had now at the Scientific Exhibition of Bahiana workshops with children from the public network in Salvador and we give them the care they have to take in relation to electric shock, burns, drowning, traffic care, because they are children with a lower social level and they are more vulnerable, as they are alone in home and the parents go out to work”.

Another newly created league that participated in the program with workshops was the Women's Health Academic League. "Today we decided to talk about urogynecology, it will be very practical, so they will be able to experience electrode placement on a prototype as if they were a patient, we will show the feedback from 'electromyography', pressure feedback, body exercises with a Swiss ball, recognition the pelvic floor and about the dysfunctions so that they know a little bit about the application of this physiotherapy”, reported the coordinating professor of LASME, Maria Luísa Veiga.

The Bahia academic leagues for the Study of Pain (LABED), Functional Dermatous (LADEF) and Physiotherapy in Orthopedics and Sports (LAFORTE) also held workshops.

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