The Importance of the Physical Therapist’s Performance in the Family Health Support Center

Introduction: Created from Brazilian social and sanitary movements, the Unified Health System (SUS) has changed the concept of health, its management, and how society should actively participate in this process. Portrait n. 154, dated January 24, 2008, created the Family Health Support Centers (NASF), and with it emerged the need to organize the professional practices of Physical Therapy in all actions of its responsibility, through the Health Strategy of the family. Physical Therapy in Basic Health Care is a process under construction that faces challenges since the physiotherapist is trained for rehabilitation.

Objective: To demonstrate significantly the importance of the physiotherapist in the Family Health Support Center.

Materials and Methods: This is a qualitative bibliographic review with an exploratory design, carried out through a bibliographical survey related to the theme The Importance of Physical Therapist Performance in the Family Health Support Center, published since 2006, in the Portuguese language. The descriptors were: Physiotherapist; Family Health; Primary Health Care; Public health for search. The exclusion attributes were: publications inferior to the year 2006 and that flee from the selected theme. The surveys will be carried out in the following databases, Medline, VBS, Lilacs, Scielo, Google Scholar, and Official Sites of the Government of Brazil.

Conclusion: The physiotherapist when inserted within the NASF (Family Health Support Nucleus) team is a fundamental piece, fulfilling its role in primary care investing in the promotion and prevention of diseases and their diseases, recovery, rehabilitation and quality improvement of life of the population, with an integral practice that per passes by the education in health, reception, individual attendance. The literary shortage when the subject is Basic Attention mainly in what concerns the NASF, making difficult the understanding of the importance and the role of preventive Physiotherapy in this context. For physiotherapy to be increasingly recognized, the training of professionals capable of acting in this area should be encouraged.