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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Artefatos para Fisioterapia Aquática: Posicionador Cervical e Prancha para Propriocepção e Estímulo Tátil / Artefacts for Aquatic Physical Therapy Cervical and Head support and Board for proprioception and tactile stimuli

Roveda, Patrícia Oliveira 22 September 2004 (has links)
Water is essential in the life of human beings, and, if used in therapeutic way through the Aquatic Physical Therapy, it promotes health and the recovery of countless diseases. In this work some of the artifacts used in the Aquatic Physical Therapy were analyzed with the objective of proposing their improvement. For that, supports for head and cervical column and boards already available in the Brazilian market, were selected for study. A survey of users' satisfaction it was made, with base in interviews with patients and reports of physiotherapists' experiences. The artifacts were considered in agreement with the stages suggested by design methods. Then recommendations were offered in order to present therapeutic options for those who employ such products with therapeutic ends. The main contribution of this study is to demonstrate to physiotherapists one way in which they cam participate in morphologic, functional and use evaluation of artifacts of their everyday use, and the professional role in the improvement of the function of such products. / A água é essencial na vida do ser humano, e, se utilizada de forma terapêutica através da Fisioterapia Aquática, promove o bem-estar e a recuperação de inúmeros distúrbios. Neste trabalho, alguns dos artefatos utilizados na Fisioterapia Aquática foram analisados com o objetivo de propor o seu aprimoramento. Para isso foram estudados alguns posicionadores de coluna cervical e cabeça e pranchas disponíveis no mercado brasileiro, foi feita uma sondagem da satisfação dos usuários com base em entrevistas a pacientes e relatos de experiências de fisioterapeutas. Os artefatos foram estudados de acordo com as etapas sugeridas por metodologias projetuais. A partir daí recomendações foram oferecidas no sentido de apresentar opções terapêuticas a serem usadas no meio aquático pelos pacientes. Por fim, a principal contribuição deste estudo é a demonstração de um modo de participação do fisioterapeuta na avaliação morfológica e funcional dos artefatos que utiliza e do seu papel na melhoria da função desses no atendimento fisioterapêutico.

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