How Does Autism Physiotherapy Affect

How does autism physiotherapy affect

Mental health is defined as a dynamic state that is expressed in everyday life through behavior and interaction in such a way that it allows people and communities to deploy their emotional, cognitive and mental resources to live with others, work, establish relationshipssignificant and contribute fully to society. In that sense, the search for mental health must be an ideal within health sciences, so that the incidence of mental illness, and particularly mental disorders decreases contributing to improving the quality of life of the population.

As Plato wrote: “Love is in medicine, in the sense that the health of the body results from the harmony of the qualities that constitute good and bad temperament;And the art of a good doctor is to be skilled to restore this harmony when it is disturbed, and to maintain it ". 

Mental disorder in both depends on the way specific ways of thinking, perceptions, feelings, behaviors and relationships are grouped together. Thus, the consideration of signs and symptoms in the alteration of mental state depends on aspects such as duration, coexistence, intensity and affectation in the functionality of those who present them. Mental disorder therefore affects the way a person thinks, as he feels, behaves and relates to others. 

On the other hand, the most common mental disorders comprise unipolar depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, epilepsy, consumption of psychoactive substances, Alzheimer.

Thus, autism or autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) correspond to a set of diverse alterations that affect neurodevelopment from childhood and remain throughout life;understanding alterations of communicative processes, social relations, behaviors, interests and activities of those who suffer from it. 

Specifically, autistic spectrum disorders are characterized by motor deficits, which remain throughout life, but fortunately can be approached from physiotherapy. Here the figure of the physiotherapist becomes indispensable in the objective of achieving an early intervention of the child taking advantage of cerebral plasticity, which allows him on the one hand to influence the development of the minor, and on the other hand improve his quality of life in what corresponds to inclusionSocial. 

For this, the physiotherapeutic treatment of the patient with autistic spectrum disorder resorts to various resources that, in the current clinic they have an important efficacy and a determining role in development. For example, in water treatment, the physiotherapist has not only the possibility of influencing the motor deficit, but also in the common deficits of autism, bond and communication.