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Volume 3
Journal of Physiotherapy & Physical Rehabilitation
Physicians 2018
August 15-16, 2018
August 15-16, 2018 Tokyo, Japan
8
th
World Physiotherapists and Physicians Summit
Neonatal physiotherapy
Galaad Torró Ferrero
2,3
, Francisco Javier Fernández Rego
1,3
1
Early Care Center of Lorca, Spain
2
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Virgen de la Arrixaca University Clinical Hospital, Spain
3
University of Murcia
N
eonatal physiotherapy is an area of pediatric physiotherapy, whose intervention framework covers, mainly, the first month
of life. The physiotherapists who develop their work in the neonatal intensive care units and the neonatal intermediate
care units require a specific training that demands to reach the necessary competences to safely and effectively fulfill their
intervention and understand the impact of different neonatal conditions on the motor development of the child. It is estimated
that around 15 million preterm infants are born in the world every year. If we consider the increase of prematurely born children
who survive, thanks to the evolution of neonatal care and that the frequency of appearance of motor and respiratory sequelae
described in them remains constant (due to high morbidity), it is important, from the health, social and economic point of view,
put into practice strategies that can improve the evolution of these children. In this regard, the development of physiotherapy
treatments aimed at preterm infants from a preventive and assistance perspective is fundamental to reduce to minimum the
consequences of motor, respiratory and oro-facial risk factors, etc. To contribute to the maturation of fundamental functions
such as breathing, suction and swallowing, promote the motor development of the newborn, treat the different pathologies
and injuries and provide guidance and support to parents. Neonatal physiotherapists develop specific functions such as their
identification evaluation and intervention. In addition, co-ordination functions, with the rest of the interdisciplinary team, and
research as fundamental basis.
galaad.torro@gmail.comPhysiother Rehabil 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.4172/2573-0312-C2-006