Sports training and competitive activity, conducted under conditions of full employment to gain the best performance, can generate, due to several causes, a variety of illnesses and serious injuries of the knee joint. The physical therapist, as part of the interdisciplinary team responsible for training the sportives (athletes), can intervene in the sense of recovery and prevention of post-traumatic shock installation (post-trauma) that can decrease considerably the knee function and that can sometimes lead the athletes to abandon the high performance activity.

Handball --- cruciate ligament

My interest for this problem coincided with a patient's request to do something for her. The patient presented a cervical osteoarthritis, with recurrences of cervicalgia, together with inflammatory symptoms: heat, edema, diminished functionality, tissue congestion, pain. After taking anti-inflammatory drugs that were not tolerated by her digestive system, and analgesics that were making her sleepy, the patient gave up her treatment, interrupted her sessions of classical massage, reeducation, physiotherapy, which increased her pain even more, and she got used to the idea that she will always live in pain. A new episode of cervicalgia determined her to ask for help somewhere else. This episode was treated only through lymphatic drainage massage, which really eased her pain, and allowed her to start again the physical therapy, this time with greater ease. Through the absorption and appeal maneuvers, the lymphatic drainage massage allowed the capture of liquids, reestablishing the tissue physiological balance, and contributed to the reconstruction of the damaged tissue, to reducing pain, and to giving back the freedom of movement in the joints, thus allowing a gradual re-adaptation of the cervical spine to movement. In conclusion, the lymphatic drainage massage can be applied as a conservatory, preparatory, and complementary treatment with the therapies that are usually used in the case of cervicalgia.

lymphatic drainage massage

This research is a comparative study carried out over a period of 35 years on the subject of the morphosomatic characteristic features of the female students of the Polytechnic University from Bucharest. By means of the Body Mass Index BMI, the characteristics of the body structure of a group of 136 female students (in the 1st and 2nd year) in 1972 and of one made up of 99 female students (in the 1st and 2nd year) in 2007 are investigated. The results obtained have been divided into weight categories and comparatively analysed, 1972 versus 2007, on percentage bases. The study aims to point out the influence that the complex economic and social transformations within the period between 1972 and 2007 had on the biological state of the 1st and 2nd year female students, particularised in this research through their morphosomatic aspects.

Body Mass Index

In this article the authors wanted to emphasize the difficulties of implementation process of a new profession in Romania: occupational therapy. Even the need of this profession was identified in Romania since 2002, when the European Commission strongly recommended to the Ministry of Health and to Romanian authorities for disabled people to include it in the multidisciplinary team of health services, and 22 Centers for integration through Occupational Therapy (CITO) started the activities without specialists, the process of higher education grows slowly. The complex analyzes of the involved factors relive the fact that philosophy of occupational therapy is closed to approach of social assistance, medicine and psychology. The interest in specific concepts is often dimmed because of self-sufficient attitude of specialists, who considers the know-how already existent. The conclusions of the authors are that the education could be better accepted if the specialists became more open for the new information concerning the good practice in Europe for increasing the quality of life, meaning the real satisfaction of individuals trough independent life.

Occupational Therapy

A large proportion of people die from smoking. The number of smokers increased dramatically as a result of aggressive advertising campaigns. Tobacco contains some thirty substances harmful to health. The most dangerous of these is nicotine. As consequences of bronchus pulmonary diseases mention smoking, and most ominous result of smoking is lung cancer. Studies show that smoking is the cause of 87% of lung cancer deaths and 30% of deaths caused by other types of cancer. Smoking also has an important role in cases of atherosclerosis, or clogged blood vessels with cholesterol (fat). In this case, cholesterol is a major risk factor for heart attack, stroke, and pulmonary thrombosis of the lower limbs. Smoking contributes to a great extent to increased cases of asthma, emphysema, pneumonia, osteoporosis. Smoke on children's body carries particularly harmful action. In addition to everything else, a teenager forms a complex neurological deviations. Suffer attention, memory, sleep, is modified. In smokers develop a dependency syndrome called nicotinic. Also, in women, the incidence of cervical cancer. Meanwhile, smoking increases the risks associated with hormonal contraceptive use (heart attacks, strokes). Increases the risk of difficult births. Pregnant women who smoke are at increased risk of giving birth early, to have a miscarriage, giving birth to a baby with low weight or to expose the newborn to an increased risk of sudden death syndrome. It is also known that smokers may have an early menopause. Chronic bronchitis and emphysema are most common in smokers, inhaling air with high concentrations of particles and irritating fumes.

Tobacco --- physical therapy

The paper presents a study of the futsal physical preparation of players during the preparatory and assessment methods of physical training status and degree of development during the special training.

futsal