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Hello people, I am America Cruz I am 21 years old, and I am studying the 5th semester of the degree of Physiotherapy at the BUAP, in this blog I will tell you about topics that are seen in the subjects throughout this career and a little of my experience when choosing this career and how my university life has been. I hope you like it and help Welcome to my blog!

What is physiotherapy?

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In a very general spectrum, we can say that physiotherapy is a technique, which deals with the physical rehabilitation of the person, which consists of a series of localized exercises that help stimulate certain parts of the body that by for one reason or another, they are inhibited, or they are simply not completely lucid to function as they should. Physiotherapy techniques: 1.-Kinesitherapy. 2.-Massagetherapy. 3.-Mechanotherapy. 4.-Electrptherapy. The truth is my first choice was medicine, but my mother’s opinion had a lot of influence in choosing this career. I was very surprised that this career is too complex everything that can be seen of the human body from tissue to the musculoskeletal apparatus, personally I really like the area of health and as time went by, I liked the career I chose and to date I have no regrets. Studying physiotherapy has allowed me to meet great friends and live beautiful experiences such as living in another state, also expand my knowledge an...

Habits of students

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The habits in physiotherapy students are not out of the ordinary. We have several traits area, even though we have to take the time during the day are, their origin their innervation and insertion; I will list some habits of us: 1.-Sleep our 8 hours. 2.-Eat breakfast and eat well. 3.-Read notes of the day. 4.-Exercise, he specified this because we show the patient some activity. We must do it correctly. 5.-Participate in class and ask our questions. 6.-Braw or pain muscles for easy memorization. 7.-Be active during the day.

What is Neurological Physiotherapy?

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 Neurological Physiotherapy is a branch within physiotherapy that is dedicated to the treatment of alterations and injuries caused by involvement of the central or peripheral nervous system and that affect movement. The practice of neurological physiotherapy can be divided into three areas. 1.-Neurophysiological or related to neurological development. 2.-Motor learning and relearning. 3.-Ecletcic the appropriate method is selected depending on the needs of each patient. I like the subject of neurological physiotherapy because of the topic it covers, such as what parts of the brain act in movement or what should be done in a patient with a neurological condition. The importance of this subject is relevant because it helps us understand the brain and its relationship with movement.

The cryotherapy

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  Cryotherapy is based on applying any element to the body that eliminates heat and regularly lowers the temperature of the tissues, in order to achieve therapeutic effects that are complemented by physiotherapy processes including injury recovery and others. Therapies that use cold include several effective methods, such as the use of: 1.-Cold soakers. 2.-Towels. 3.-Plastic bags with crushed ice. 4.-Cold gels. 5.-Chemical cold compresses. 6.-Draining massages with ice. For me, the topic of cryotherapy is very important because is of great help when doing therapy it is interesting how ice works on the muscle and how to manage it, you see all this in the subject of physiotherapy when we did the practice it was very interesting and fun, we used materials that were very easy to use, that’s why I really liked topic of cryotherapy.

How does physiotherapy help with fractures?

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  Local treatment of fractures is based on reduction, immobilization and later recovery. The reduction and Immobilization, performed by the specialist, can be done by surgical treatment osteosynthesis material or conservative immobilization with plaster, for example. In physiotherapy it must be very clear that it is not the fracture that has been to treat the bone injury will already be treated by the traumatologist but everything which is related, soft tissue injury and the possible complications. It will also be necessary to foresee the derivatives of the same immobilization joint stiffness, muscle atrophy, consideration, pain, edema. Basic objectives of physiotherapy treatment 1.-Promote consolidation. 2.-Treat soft tissue involvement. 3.-Reduce the effects of immobilization. 4.-Avoid and prevent complications. This issue is of personal importance since I have a family member with a fracture and learning this is helping me to understand what is happening in his proce...