{"id":6011,"date":"2023-05-20T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/?p=6011"},"modified":"2023-05-19T14:19:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T13:19:58","slug":"ordem-dos-fisioterapeutas-apela-ao-aumento-da-intervencao-dos-fisioterapeutas-nos-programas-de-gestao-de-peso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/en\/noticias\/ordem-dos-fisioterapeutas-apela-ao-aumento-da-intervencao-dos-fisioterapeutas-nos-programas-de-gestao-de-peso\/","title":{"rendered":"Portuguese Physiotherapists Order calls for an increase in the intervention of physiotherapists in weight management programmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6011\" class=\"elementor elementor-6011\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-866048a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"866048a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3875fb1\" data-id=\"3875fb1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-662766e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"662766e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>On this <strong>National Day for the Fight against Obesity,<\/strong> which is celebrated today, 20 May, the Order of Physiotherapists appeals to the <strong>increase in the intervention of physiotherapists in weight management programmes<\/strong> and in the availability of these programmes to the general population.<\/p><p>Obesity and overweight can be defined by an abnormal or excessive accumulation of fat that can contribute to non-communicable disease situations such as cardiovascular (leading cause of death) and respiratory diseases, osteoarticular (especially osteoarthritis which is highly disabling) and some forms of cancer, as well as diabetes.<\/p><p>In Portugal, noncommunicable diseases are responsible for 87% of total deaths (WHO, 2023). They are caused by determining factors such as dietary changes, physical inactivity or sedentary lifestyles, smoking or alcoholism, among others.<\/p><p>O <strong>physiotherapist has a fundamental role<\/strong> on <u>primary prevention<\/u> of obesity and overweight through its intervention in the determining factors, mainly in counselling and monitoring the practice of physical activity adequate to these clinical conditions, in respiratory alterations resulting from obesity and overweight and in osteoarticular alterations, also contributing to the increase of health literacy.<\/p><p>The action of the physiotherapist is also revealing at the level of <u>secondary and tertiary prevention<\/u> in surgical intervention for obesity, surgical and non-surgical intervention for osteoarthritis or intervention in respiratory and sleep disorders, without forgetting intervention in diabetes management.<\/p><p>We recall the fundamental role of the physiotherapist as a health professional, whether or not integrated in health teams, for the <strong>management of overweight and obesity<\/strong>in all its aspects and contexts.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this National Day of the Fight against Obesity, which is celebrated today, May 20, the Order of Physiotherapists calls for an increase in the intervention of physiotherapists in weight management programmes and in the availability of these programmes to the population in general.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}