Professionals of Santos Dumont Institute (ISD) participated on December 5th and 6th, 2017 in the XI RN Rehabilitation Seminar, held at the Hotel Praiamar, in Natal (RN). Promoted by the RN Child and Adult Rehabilitation Center (CRI/CRA), the event had the following theme: “Challenges and perspectives in caring for people with disabilities”.
On the morning of the 5th, the research coordinator of the Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience (IIN-ELS), Edgard Morya, participated in the round table “Planning and management in Specialized Rehabilitation Centers in RN – Characterization”. He explained that the ISD's Specialized Rehabilitation Center (CER), located in Macaíba (RN), has the advantage of integration between health and education. “In addition to providing services, the Macaíba CER is a tool for education, training of professionals and development of technologies and scientific knowledge”, informed Morya.
The CER coordinated by ISD is located in Anita Garibaldi Health Education and Research Center (CEPS) and is one of seven in Rio Grande do Norte. In addition to uniting health education and research, Morya commented that the CER also contributes to Care Network for People with Disabilities in RN in the development of standardized care protocols. “These protocols can generate data from across Rio Grande do Norte, helping to predict future changes in the system”, commented Morya.
New developments in assistance to people with spinal cord injuries
On December 6th, two ISD professionals participated in the round table “Updates in assistance to injured patients”. In addition to Edgard Morya, the medical preceptor and neurologist from CEPS, Angelo Raimundo Neto.
Raimundo Neto presented to the public the impacts of spinal cord injury on different areas of a person's life and reinforced that, currently, physical rehabilitation needs to stimulate minimal spinal function of the patient. He also showed that the most sophisticated current research on this topic works with electrical stimulation, use of grafts in neural tissue and stem cells.
Morya began his speech with some impactful data related to spinal cord injury. Every 25 seconds, for example, a person dies in the world as a result of a traffic accident. In Brazil, more than 40 thousand deaths per year arising from this type of accident. In the United States alone, 500,000 people suffer spinal cord injuries each year.
Studies were also presented that show how it is possible to improve motor rehabilitation therapies to increase quality of life. Research with rodents has shown that physical rehabilitation only brings significant benefits when there is sufficient stimuli to the nervous system, stimulating neural plasticity.
According to the coordinator of the Care Network for People with Disabilities, Célia Melo, the meeting aimed to “present new techniques, knowledge and methodologies developed by professionals from the most diverse areas, aiming at better effectiveness in the therapeutic approaches used in rehabilitation services”. The seminary was also home to the II Meeting of Managers of Specialized Rehabilitation Centers in RN.
Text and Photos: Luiz Paulo Juttel / Ascom – ISD
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