Physiotherapy students give guidance to women during visit to CMEI

In celebration of International Women’s Day, the Faculty of Physiotherapy of the University of Rio Verde – UniRV, did, this Wednesday, March 8^th, a visit to CMAI Anázia Antônia Cunha, in Céu Azul Neighborhood. Being invited by the manager, Josilene Teixeira, students from the 9^th and 10^th periods, under the supervision of professor Me. Maira Paz Rodrigues, presented, by using a guidebook, the necessary care to ensure workplace well-being. On the occasion, the students still gave advice related to women’s intimate health, highlighting the importance of urogynecological physiotherapy.

Apart from working actively in the treatment and rehabilitation of injuries, a physiotherapist still works in other highly important activities in healthcare, such as the preventive area that focus on primary care.

For professor Maira Paz, developing and participating in activities that give information to the population is a valuable opportunity for student enhancement in the construction of a professional career. She highlighted students’ participation in the CMEI. “We bring important information to women about urinary incontinence, posture and muscle relaxation. Beyond that, students could apply their theoretical knowledge, doing, in practice, women’s everyday life”, she comments.

Always involved in the faculty’s activities, the 9^th period student, Maria Fernanda Parreira Alves, emphasizes that the guidebook contributed to the practical understanding of information. “Preventive physiotherapy is very interesting, for, most times, we leave the clinical and hospital environment and go to other areas to take these information, generating, thus, a greater connectivity to the population. Yesterday, on women’s day, I had the pleasure of being in action with my profession in a preventive way. I clearly saw that the information we bring these women made all the difference in their lives” she said.