The Council stresses the importance of child physical therapy in the early treatment of health problems.
Madrid, February 2012.- the Member of the General Council of schools of physiotherapists of Spain (CGCFE), Alicia Quintana has emphasized on Tuesday child physiotherapy in treating early health problems, since it uses a variety of techniques for the treatment of diseases or disorders that affect children.
As highlighted Quintana, child physiotherapy encompass all those therapeutic strategies to obtain the highest possible functional level in children.
Child physical therapist, has stressed the vowel, specialises in the assessment, treatment and care of the newborn infants, children and adolescents with disorders or muscle-skeletal, neuromuscular or congenital development disorders ”.
Pediatric physical therapist helps the child to achieve the maximum potential of independence through observation, evaluation, and promotion of health and well-being, as well as the implementation of a wide variety of therapeutic strategies and aid posture or mobility ”explained the vowel of the Council, who has made it clear that this professional also provides support to the families of the children.
In the same way, Quintana has ensured that knowledge of psychomotor development, learning, movement control and adaptations to the growth are aspects that help the paediatric physiotherapist at the time of raise the appropriate therapeutic strategies and discover the motor potential of the child ”.
Complaints are handled in children physiotherapy units, include the child respiratory pathology, neurosensoriales disorders and attending in motor development, spinal cord injuries, degenerative diseases, genetic syndromes with malformations or delay in development, infantile cerebral palsy and congenital torticollis, among others.
Thus the physiotherapeutic techniques commonly used include passive and active, mobilizations Maso-therapy, functional, technical neurological dressings, physiotherapy respiratori, postural reeducation, early stimulation and sensorineural, as well as health education.
CGCFE
The General Council of physiotherapists schools of Spain (CGCFE) is the body representing more than 40,000 physiotherapists, Spain, working with the common goal of promoting the health of citizens. In addition, orders the profession, guardianship the interests of physiotherapy, as well as its optimal implementation and universalization.
Physiotherapists are health professionals, as provided for in the existing legislation, accredited with the University degree in physiotherapy, taught in 43 universities and possessors of knowledge and skills to benefit the health of the population. in addition, there is a greater number of doctorates and mastersthat ensure their high qualifications
