A importância da inserção do profissional de fisioterapia nas escolas

Abstract

The physical therapist is a professional who has the ability to act on health promotion, treating, rehabilitating and preventing at individual and collective levels, from this view, this study aims through literature review, demonstrate the importance of physiotherapy in health promotion in school environment through preventive interventions. In integrative review articles were searched in databases: LILACS and SciELO, using the following descriptors: " Physiotherapy ", " School Health ", " Education " and "prevention". The search resulted in 13 studies and only 3 met the wishes of the research. It was shown that the profile of action of physiotherapy professional , even in schools , is still closely linked to curative and rehabilitative profile , making it necessary that new approaches to their work in the field of prevention are formulated , there are views that the work physiotherapist through postural orientations , lectures to develop healthy environments and exchange of experiences with teachers and other professionals is of paramount importance for health promotion in the school field.