Today, a more sustainable health system is being pursued in which the individual takes an active role in his or her health care, while adopting healthier lifestyles that prevent secondary pathologies and co-morbidities. In this sense, this group considers, as a research activity, to determine ways of promoting health from Physiotherapy, taking into account the perspective of continuous change to which society is subjected on a daily basis. Specifically, this research group is characterised by its multi-speciality in the field of Physiotherapy, with the advantage that this entails in bringing together various new specialities in this area of health. This group' s research activity aims, from the perspective of various physiotherapy specialities, to address different areas of assessment and intervention in healthy people (health promotion), in health problems of various kinds (chronic pain, haemophilia, neurological, cardiovascular, respiratory and musculoskeletal pathology, women's health) in different population groups, as well as in aspects related to professional ethics and health in physiotherapy.
- Diseñar y validar herramientas de Evaluación y de respuesta al tratamiento fisioterápico.
- Estudiar las bases fisiológicas de las distintas estrategias terapéuticas e intervenciones fisioterápicas.
- Desarrollar e implementar nuevas técnicas fisioterápicas para su posterior aplicación en la práctica clínica.
- Describir y analizar aspectos epidemiológicos en los problemas y determinantes de salud.
- Desarrollar estrategias para la aportación de la fisioterapia en la promoción de la salud.
