
João Rafael de Oliveira Rocha da Silva
Connect Life Rehabilitation and Performance, BrazilPresentation Title:
How to evaluate and optimize motor control in individuals with chronic low back pain
Abstract
Guidelines for treating chronic low back pain are directly related to changing habits and carrying out patient-centered exercise programs, using passive resources such as manual therapy, for example, to aid treatment.
In previous studies, it was possible to observe changes in motor control in individuals with chronic pain, which directly affect the performance of exercises, making treatment adherence difficult.
The professional capable of carrying out an adequate assessment of motor control in these individuals will have a greater range of resources and therapeutic strategies that are more specific to each individual's dysfunction.
We currently have a scientific basis for carrying out different exercise methods for the treatment of chronic low back pain, but we still do not know which method has the highest level of evidence, and we use the patient's preference when choosing the program to be carried out.
The use of an initial approach based on the assessment of the individual's motor control is based on metrics of the possible dysfunctions present in each individual, which helps in the evolution of each patient's dysfunctional diagnosis.
Biography
João Rafael de Oliveira Rocha da Silva has been a clinical physiotherapist for over 15 years, with a postgraduate degree in rehabilitation applied to sport from the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology at the Escola Paulista de Medicina CETE- UNIFESP, also having a postgraduate degree in Improvement in assessment and interdisciplinary treatment in Pain at the Hospital das Clínicas of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo HC-FMUSP. He recently published five studies related to the treatment of Pain, which were presented at more than five international conferences and congresses. He's a scientific reviewer for international journals.