Asociación portuguesa de fisioterapeutas
La Asociación Portuguesa de Fisioterapeutas celebró el Día Mundial del PT 2021 (WPTD) con varias actividades destinadas a:
- Promocionar la profesión entre el público;
- Promote the initiatives implemented by Portuguese physiotherapists in the context of the commemoration of the WPTD;
- Increase the literacy of the public regarding how physiotherapy can help managing the impact of Long COVID-19, and COVID-19 in general;
- Increase the awareness about the importance of physiotherapy and its benefits in several conditions.
Para lograrlo, se implementaron las siguientes iniciativas:
- Translation of the materials created by World Physiotherapy for the WPTD;
- Creación de un área en el sitio web de la asociación dedicado al WPTD con los materiales traducidos;
- Promoción de un concurso to reward the best initiative to celebrate the WPTD promoted by Portuguese physiotherapists;
- A página de Facebook dedicado al WPTD donde se promovieron los materiales traducidos y las iniciativas nacionales;
- Launch of a children's book "Tomás discovers physiotherapy”, with an online promotional event. The book is mainly aimed at the youngest – but not only – and seeks to explain, in a simple and fun way, what physiotherapy is;
- Varias participaciones en agencias de noticias nacionales, including the national television, with interviews to the President of the Portuguese Association and news in the context of the WPTD and the importance of physiotherapy to the sustainability of the health system (link1, link2 (después del minuto 6:10), enlace 3);
- Un marco de Facebook alusivo al WPTD que se compartió en la red social;
- An issue of the Portuguese Association of Physiotherapists magazine (REVISTA FISIO) dedicated to the discussion of the quality of the response to COVID-19 in Portugal, in the context of physiotherapy (Physiotherapy after COVID-19 infection: are we providing an adequate response?).
Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud de Alcoitão
As part of this year's celebration of World PT Day, students and teachers of the physiotherapy course at the Alcoitão School of Health Sciences developed a mobile application (ReageCOVID) whose main objective is to promote self-management, in the short and long term, in the post-COVID-19 context .
The app is public and free to access and is divided into several sections, where self-management strategies were presented that could contribute to improving the functionality of people affected by COVID-19 (and Long COVID).
La aplicación se puede utilizar en computadoras de escritorio, teléfonos inteligentes y tabletas a través de este enlace: https://reagecovid.glideapp.io/
Hospital Dr. Nélio Mendonça - SESARAM (Madeira)
A group of physiotherapists from Hospital Dr. Nélio Mendonça - SESARAM developed a series of activities with the support of different entities. Using this year's theme, the main objective of the activities was to promote the importance of physiotherapy in the rehabilitation for Long COVID. The target population were people with post-covid symptoms, people with physical motor disabilities resulting from other pathologies, health professionals, young, adult and elderly population in general (Portuguese and foreign). A total of 69 participants took part in the day.
