Centro de rehabilitación y acondicionamiento físico para personas con discapacidad y limitaciones físicas

Abstract

The world health organization defines physical disability as ¨That situation or state in which a circumstance occurs that makes, prevents or greatly hinders the person suffering from it from being able to move freely and in a way that full functionality. This type of disability affects the locomotor system, being especially visible in the case of the extremities, although it can affect in a way that the skeletal muscles cannot be moved voluntarily¨. Currently in Colombia there are 1,313,692 people with disabilities (Ministry of Health, 2017), which represent 2.73% of the total population. For Bogotá, 3.28% of the population suffers from some physical limitation (264,912 people), of this population 25.35% have a physical therapy rehabilitation order. However, only 15% have the possibility of accessing these services, since barriers such as economic and displacement factors prevent attending this type of therapy (Observatorio de Discapacidad de Colombia, 2017). This project aims to improve quality of life of adolescents aged 13-19 years who have a condition of absence of movement of walking, jumping, running in lower limbs and who reside in the town of Suba in Bogotá through rehabilitation and physical activity. physical conditioning that will be located in suba, in the Nice neighborhood, which has machines for each specialty, and a team of professionals necessary to carry out the activities planned for each person. As a differentiating factor, there are comprehensive physical therapies that consider the needs of each person.