{"id":6916,"date":"2023-10-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/?p=6916"},"modified":"2023-10-13T19:59:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T18:59:23","slug":"ordem-dos-fisioterapeutas-assinala-papel-da-fisioterapia-em-cuidados-paliativos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/en\/noticias\/ordem-dos-fisioterapeutas-assinala-papel-da-fisioterapia-em-cuidados-paliativos\/","title":{"rendered":"Order of Physiotherapists highlights the role of physiotherapy in palliative care"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6916\" class=\"elementor elementor-6916\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fc2767e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"fc2767e\" 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-75fe1f4\" data-id=\"75fe1f4\" 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-169b1c9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"169b1c9\" 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>This Saturday, 14th October, marks the <strong>World Palliative Care Day<\/strong>This is an internationally recognised date to celebrate and raise awareness of the importance of access to <strong>Palliative Care<\/strong>.<\/p><p>The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that by 2060 the number of people with palliative needs in the world will have doubled.<\/p><p>In Portugal, only 30% of people with palliative needs have access to <strong>Palliative Care<\/strong> specialised.<\/p><p><strong>Physiotherapy can help<\/strong><\/p><p>Did you know that not all palliative patients are bedridden?<\/p><p>In fact, the WHO recommends living as active a life as possible until death.<\/p><p>To fulfil this recommendation, the <strong>Physiotherapy<\/strong> has emerged as an intervention of excellence in non-pharmacological symptom control and improving well-being and quality of life, right up until death. The main focus of <strong>Physiotherapist,<\/strong> in this context, is the promotion of autonomy and independence, with the function that exists at any given time.<\/p><p>Scientific evidence proves the benefits of the <strong>Physiotherapy in Palliative Care<\/strong> in the management of various symptoms such as reduced mobility, fatigue, pain, respiratory symptoms, anxiety and depression. We also know that physiotherapists actively contribute to a more meaningful and fulfilling end of life.<\/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>This Saturday, 14 October, is World Palliative Care Day, a date established at international level to celebrate and raise awareness of the importance of access to palliative care.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ordemdosfisioterapeutas.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}