kinesioactivity: reeducational functional space for neuromotor disorders in adults - doi:10.5020/18061230.2004.p149

Abstract

Mental and physical diseases during the postwar period marked the beginning of the use of occupation as a therapeutic mechanism. Most of the current trends in Occupational Therapy interventions still use occupation as its main axis actuation. Along the last 10 years, a new practice has been adopted. This technique is based on theories of kinesiotherapy, associated with a proposal of relating the subject with non specific objects, in an action context, by means of a task exercise. This therapy is called “kinesioactivity”, a neologism that agglutinates the words “activity” and “kinesics”. In order to study the therapeutic potential of this practice in the grasping space recovery, some activities are isolated for qualitative analysis: grasping, transferring, dragging, overlapping and handling in what concerns the mobility aspects that request postural variation, the task complexity and the space relationship, all activities that favor the mobility of the upper waist body. It is concluded that from the functional analysis, it is established a parallel of the isolated subjects’ functional conditions, in order to know the influence of kinesioactivity in the performance of functional expressiveness activities.