Importance of Prevention

Many diseases are avoidable and unfortunately are caused by ignorance. Also of people health the absence of prevention in the society have many effects in the economy, health quality, life expectancy, etc. By the above the functions of the health specialists in the prevention subject are very important. Despite the necessity to promote the prevention in the population, this is a complex task because we must consider too many aspects according to age, likes and social stratum, for example.

There are many intervention areas and must be elected the best way. I like the sports area because is closer to my likes. In this area is important considerate not only the sportsman or sportswoman, because the training ambient, relation with partners, technic, nutrition in resume all the environment of her/him are important too.

I think the physical therapist could have an important labor in the performance of workers. Lesions or bad postures could reduce the performance and profits. In this area, ergonomics is the principal actor and source of knowledge, because its objective is to observe and identify the interaction between the factors before mentioned.

But the job of the health specialists isn’t restricted at the specific labor of prevent bad conditions in the environment; also can join in the emotional state of the people. Nowadays, medical advances allow to improve people’s condition, and we, as physical therapist, have the responsibility for giving our knowledge to the population.