This paper presents resources and experiences developed in European and national projects aimed at promoting healthy and active aging, preventing frailty, and improving the quality of life of older adults. Strategies for promoting physical activity, safe mobility, social interaction, and the management of geriatric conditions such as urinary incontinence are addressed ...
This presentation describes the birth and development of professional physiotherapy in Catalonia from the 1950s to the present day, drawing on the testimonies of those involved and the intersection of ethnography and historiography—two indispensable methodological tools for understanding a relatively new profession that did not achieve full academic legitimacy until the Spanish Transition ...
Currently, talking about pain and its biopsychosocial approach begins to be recognized by all, and increasingly, there is more knowledge from the degree of physiotherapy, to postgraduate and master’s training. It is also known by all that the approach to the patient with pain, whether persistent or acute, is something more complex than we could imagine until recently ...
This teaching innovation project develops intercultural competencies in Physiotherapy students through case-based learning and clinical simulation with standardized patients. A total of 41 first-year Physiotherapy students and fourth-year students from the double degree in Human Nutrition and Physiotherapy participated ...
The central idea of this presentation is that the university can act as a bridge between academic knowledge and the community, using service-learning in physiotherapy to promote health, detect at-risk situations early, and foster healthier, active, and autonomous aging ...
Cancer-related lymphedema (CRL) is characterized by the accumulation of fluid and macromolecules within the interstitial space resulting from disruption, obstruction, or compression of the lymphatic system (lymphatic vessels and/or lymph nodes) caused by the tumor itself or by cancer treatments ...
