Therapeutic itinerary and chronic disease: necessary approaches to Physical Education

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Alan Camargo
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Caderno de Educação Física e Esporte
• Texto Completo: https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/cadernoedfisica/article/view/28734
• topic: práticas corporais; itinerário terapêutico; prática integral de cuidados de saúde; bodily practices; therapeutic itinerary; integral healthcare practice

BACKGROUND: Therapeutic itinerary can be defined as the search for health care by the subject from the individual and sociocultural dimensions. Thus, the objective of this essay was to analyze the importance of understanding the notion of therapeutic itinerary by Physical Education professionals to work with chronically ill patients.DEVELOPMENT: This text was anchored on concepts and theoretical and methodological references from the fields of Anthropology and Health. The notions of illness, disease and sickness were rescued in order to relate them to the approach of the therapeutic itinerary in the scope of professional intervention in Physical Education. The perspectives of line of care and care path were also used in order to problematize the body practices for people with chronic diseases.CONCLUSION: It highlighted the importance of the Physical Education professional to stick to the notion of therapeutic itinerary to intervene with body practices. It discussed the professional competence to share the biomedical and sociocultural rationalities that each practitioner goes through in life. It progressed with the urgency of the interdisciplinary problematization about the integral care of the person with chronic disease who performs body practices. Finally, it was suggested a reflexive and relational deepening between the Physical Education professional and the practitioner based on their therapeutic itineraries.