Approaching the Signs - Physiotherapy and Health - to the Human and Social Aspects

Abstract

Physiotherapy, as a profession of the Health area, has, in its origin, the rehabilitation characteristic inserted in its practices. However, its activity extends to disease prevention and health promotion of an individual or of the collectivity. This focus is present in disciplines that are part of the courses in the area, as it is the case of Collective Health. Also considered a knowledge field, Collective Health provides the future professional with a closer look at the human and social aspects embedded in the actions directed to the community's health. For this reason, Collective Health has many interfaces with the other knowledge Sciences. For a long time, research in Social Sciences that was related to Health was directed at the medical professionals, which was detrimental to the other health professionals. The articulation of Physiotherapy with the Social Sciences allows a historical, human and social look at health and disease prevention actions. Physiotherapy also has an interrelation with language, allowing the subject to meet with reality. According to Bakhtin (2002), it is at this moment that the subject becomes historical. The ideology that pervades the actions of teams that are composed of health professionals can be disclosed through the analysis of their discourses, showing the elements that constitute their professional practices and that may be hindering the transformations in the health-illness profile of a collectivity. This essay was methodologically supported by historical and dialectical Materialism, based on Marx's theory.