The Importance of Combining Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy within the Complex Program of Functional Rehabilitation in Persons with Scapulohumeral Periarthritis

Abstract

Physical therapy through its fundamental and/or auxiliary means, aims to restore the functionality of the shoulder, responding to pathological changes caused by the algofunctional syndrome characteristic of scapulohumeral periarthritis. For those persons with scapulohumeral periarthritis occupational therapy has as a primary objective their full reintegration, and integration on all levels: personal, family, and socio-economic. By combining physical therapy programs with individualized programs of occupational therapy we succeed in emphasizing the progress of rehabilitation, evidenced by improving the functional level of the subject and implicitly their quality of life.