Abstract

NINO-HERNANDEZ, César Augusto  and  GRIMALDOS-PEREZ, Lina Mercedes. Childhood perceived from physiotherapy in the context of violence in Colombia: Taking action based on reflection. rev.fac.med. [online]. 2016, vol.64, suppl.1, pp.151-156. ISSN 0120-0011.  https://doi.org/10.15446/revfacmed.v64n3Supl.50828.

Violence in the contemporary world is a ubiquitous phenomenon. Every day, social contexts are permeated by the multiplicity of expressions of violence, calling the different sectors of society, social partners and individual citizens to confront the atrocities they produce. However, rather than a welfare task to restore the rights of victims and deal with the aftermath of violence, the challenge of physiotherapists is to think and to act in favor of the empowerment of human and social capabilities towards a society in peace.

Thus, this paper aims to raise social awareness in physiotherapists and to consider the deconstruction of their object of study as a possibility of resistance that raises critical issues and reinvents physiotherapy in an affirmative and performative manner. To achieve this, this paper covers some philosophical bases that show elements of analysis to study the relationship between the profession and the violence exerted on children. Finally, a landscape for understanding professional practice is provided for extending and complementing the perspective on human body movement, characterized by being functionalist, reductionist, instrumental and objectifying.

Keywords : Child; Violence; Physical Therapy Specialty; War (MeSH).

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