Possibilidades de atuação do fisioterapeuta na atenção primária: um relato de experiência

Abstract

Basic health care is the first level of health care, and it is a way to reach users in an absolute and continuous way, with activities to promote, protect and rehabilitate health. This report of experience brings the activities developed by a physiotherapist within a family health strategy (ESF), from a renovation of the current model of care provided, the activities of the physiotherapist were based not only on rehabilitation, but, as a priority in the promotion of health and prevention of aggravations of the population. Experience has reported that the professional has developed several activities either in the school context or within the scope of the family health strategy and that the activities were carried out in view of the situational diagnosis previously made to supply the community demand. After performing the activities, it is possible to verify the great difficulty of the insertion of the Physical Therapist within an ESF as a professional capable of promoting health, since its role is seen mainly as a rehabilitator. Therefore, it is necessary to include the physiotherapist in the primary care to further spread their potential in all levels of attention.