“Create a dynamic space where physiotherapists and health professionals approach the population to, together, explore innovative approaches that help and accompany people to actively face the challenges of chronicity.” This is the objective of the Health Fair: Active Coping with Chronicity, organized by the Official College of Physiotherapists of the Canary Islands, which will be held this Saturday, October 26 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in Parque San Telmo in the capital. grancanaria. The organization hopes to repeat the success of attendance and participation of the last 2018 edition, which also focused on the promotion of physical activity prescribed and dosed by health professionals, among others, the physiotherapist as an expert in therapeutic physical exercise.
With financing from the Cabildo of Gran Canaria and the collaboration of other professional associations, scientific societies and patient associations, this fair aims to bring health professions closer and make them known to all sectors of society, showing that their activity goes beyond to address a specific problem, which contribute to improving the quality of life of people with solutions to limitations and ailments of all kinds through interdisciplinary work.
Through talks, workshops, stands and interactive activities, we seek to promote the importance of prevention and health promotion. Another of its objectives is to bring the figure of the physiotherapist closer to the population, so that they are identified as a health professional, with training backed by a university degree and mandatory membership.
This fair, as well as a pre-congress day held in the month of May, are the prelude to the IV International Congress of the Official College of Physiotherapists of the Canary Islands, which will take place from November 14 to 16 at the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium and will feature international participation of professionals. health workers, social health workers, managers, people who live with chronic conditions and family members.
Paradigm change of the health system
These actions are part of the plan developed by the COFC with the aim of adopting a comprehensive approach to the management of chronic conditions and placing the person with pathology at the center of care to improve their quality of life and promote positive results in their health. recovery.
Furthermore, 80% of Primary Care consultations are related to chronic pain, it also accounts for 70% of healthcare expenses, so this professional group understands that, with an increasingly aging and sedentary society, a transformation of the model that brings us closer to a more sustainable public healthcare.
Talks and workshops
People who go this Saturday to the San Telmo Park in the capital of Gran Canaria will be able to listen to interesting talks on “Cognitive stimulation”, “Healthy aging and therapeutic physical exercise”, “Treatment and prevention of chronic foot pain”, “Physiotherapy in the endometriosis”, “Tobacco and new ways of smoking”, “The speech therapist beyond RR”, Oral health and chronic diseases”, “Chronic pain and an approach beyond drugs” or “Myths about menopause”.
As for the workshops, topics such as “Occupations in chronicity”, “Posture revitalization”, “Prevention of falls in physical exercise”, “Postural hygiene: Your friend the spine”, “People’s self-care” will be addressed. who take care of others in chronic situations”, “Nasal hygiene for everyone in the house”, “Accompanying and managing emotions when experiencing a chronic illness” and, finally, “Boccia as an active coping tool for people with physical disability.
This fair is possible thanks to the support of the College of Pharmacists of Las Palmas, College of Physicians of Las Palmas, College of Nutritionists and Dietitians of the Canary Islands, College of Podiatrists of the Canary Islands, College of Speech Therapists, College of Occupational Therapists, College of Psychology of Las Palmas , College of Dentists of Las Palmas and College of Psychology of Tenerife. As for scientific societies, the Spanish Society of Primary Care Physicians, the Canary Islands Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology, the Canary Islands Association of Midwives and the Canary Islands Society of Family and Community Medicine participate. The patient associations that wanted to be present are the Canary Islands Association of Breast and Gynecological Cancer, Association for Diabetes of Gran Canaria, Club Deportivo Impulso, Hemophilia Association of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Association of Rare Diseases, Association of Premature Babies. Las Palmas, ADEPSI Association, Association of Neuromuscular Diseases of the Canary Islands, National Association of Disability, Rare Diseases and Social Integration and the Spanish Association against Cancer.
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