HOW

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HOW?

• Reference person
• Personal comfort
• Hygenie

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PHYSIOTHERAPIST

• What can physiotherapist do?
• Physiotherapist can help the individual human
  being to improve its health.
• The physiotherapist and the patient co-operate to
  treat disorders or to prevent them.
• The interaction involves working on three fronts
• The human body with its weak and strong points.
• The life and working conditions of the
  individual.
• The patients understanding and awareness of how
  these conditions influence the well-being of the
  body and its health.

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OUR AIMS

• To improve health and prevent illness
• To treat and cure sick persons
• To ease life for people with permanent illnesses
  and handicaps

4
TAKE CARE

• During pregnancy
• Teach them to minimize the stress caused by
  pregnancy
• Give them exercises to strenghten the muscules
  need for the birth
• Give them clue how the child is stimulated by
  touch and activity
• During childhood
• We can evaluate the childs motor level ? give
  advise if special exercises are needed

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THERAPEUTIC EXERCISES

• The goals of it
• Include the prevention of dysfunction as well as
  the development, improvement, restoration, or
  maintenance of normal
• Strenght
• Mobility
• Relaxation
• Coordination
• Skill

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OTHER METHODS

• Manual techniques
• Massage
• Soft tissue mobilization
• Coordination training
• PNF
• Physioball
• Stability trainer
• Relaxation techniques ? developing human contacts

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
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DISCUSSION PART

• We dont have any experience with mental handicap
  patient.
• What should you do, with your profession, for
  improve the well-being of mental handicap patient?