Evaluación clínica-funcional de los sistemas fundamentales del cuerpo humano según la Asociación Americana de Terapia Física (APTA) en pacientes con patologías músculo-esqueléticas de origen traumático en la articulación de la rodilla, que asisten al Centro de Medicina Física y Rehabilitación del Hospital Luis Vernaza de la ciudad de Guayaquil. Octubre 2017 – febrero 2018.

Abstract

Functional-Clinic evaluation to the fundamentals systems of the human body according to the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) is based on the patient assessment from a holistic and integral view. That’s the reason to include the cardiovascular-pulmonary system, neuro-muscular system, skeletal-muscle system and integumentary system inside the parameter to consider in a physical rehabilitation. Like this, the patient will be re-integrated to their functions in a better way. After the evaluation of each system, the next objective of this final project is to determinate the kinesiopathology association between systems, and how these ones are altering or not the muscle in traumatic knee injuries at patients that assist to Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Center of Luis Vernaza Hospital in Guayaquil city from October 2017 to February 2018. The methodological design is a quantity study with descriptive reach and deductive-quasi-experimental approach was concluded, using 30 patients as sample. The results determinate the closest kinesiopathology association in the skeletal-muscle system evaluated, specifically at hip internal rotators muscle (60.71%), hip external rotators muscle (78.57%), medium and minor gluteus (60.71%); being the last one muscle mentioned the most affected. At the same time in the neuro-muscular system with 33.33% in L2’s dermatome (medium and minor gluteus relation); the cardiovascular-pulmonary system it’s not affected in most of the cases (80%-100%), the same thing with the integumentary system (70% not affected). To conclude, the medium/minor gluteus is the most affected muscle in traumatic knee injuries, against the most work it; quadriceps.