Maria Lucia Paz Medina, professor of the Physiotherapy program and Coordinator of the "Love to Health" initiative reported that teachers and students have been working to generate interest in the body with "an internal movement strategy to generate external movement".

 

She added that the epistemological referent is the human body movement, and that with physiotherapy the intention is to innovate and start to impact a motivational area in which all habits, good behaviors, what has to do with health and wellbeing, "get motivated from an inner movement."

 

Last week, the workshop 'My Life in Motion' was held, a vocational activity oriented in order to  prepare for a working life, which was developed with students from the 9th semester of the referenced program.

 

"It was a pioneering experience, there are many fruits from that workshop. We identified some situations that from physiotherapy and the health profession have limitations or difficulties and from the workshop were identified and what is next is to address among the graduates how to overcome those challenges," said Paz Medina.

 

Last Thursday, June 22nd, a second workshop was held called 'Education and Pedagogy', aimed at physiotherapy teachers, seeking to renew their vocation through the communication with students. Equally from the pedagogical side motivate creativity and inspire movement and healthcare for people.

 

Gerardo Anderson, Bachelor of Social Communication who has been in charge of conducting these workshops, graduated from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD - Dominican Republic), and is a member of the Institute of Communication Research INAINCO, from the same institution.

 

The expert said that "we speak of the vocation from his professional area, which must be addressed with some topics such as sensitivity. A person who works in physical therapy must have a very great degree of sensitivity, understand that the person who comes with a pain comes with a historical process, and that the pain that is being psychosomatized in the body is not necessarily by a blow or bad position but by circumstances of stress, or family that provoke aggravating symptoms."

 

He pointed out that it must be emphasized that people who seek help from a physiotherapist must first be heard, and after that think about the therapy process.

 

"We also touch philosophy as part of the project, what do I owe to it? This is called belonging. Solidarity also, which is more framed so that I am a helper in the end, from any professional area, and that this service I have to be willing to exercise it with my colleagues, teachers, the environment, the University, and that my service will not necessarily be motivated by a specific result, rating, recognition, or pay," said Anderson.

 

More information:

 

Maria Lucia Paz Medina

Physical Therapy Program

Mobile: 3104549624

Email: mlpaz@unicauca.edu.co