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Integrative and Complementary Therapies (ICT) are terms that define a concept and, at the same time, a new vision and paradigm about the health care model.
ICTs include all practices that promote and improve the individual's health and well-being, treating and enhancing their recovery from illness.
Over the last few years, there has been a true revolution in health care, due to the different approaches and different ways of dealing with the many situations of illness.
Therapeutics such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, Homeopathy, Osteopathy, Naturopathy, Phytotherapy and Chiropractic, are regulated or in the process of being regulated (Law 71/2013 of September 2).
Other interdisciplinary areas such as different massage methods and techniques, therapeutic touch, aromatherapy, auriculotherapy, neuromuscular bands, integrative holistic kinesiology, have been to deserve a prominent place for its development as ICT, over the last few years. This massive participation, which in recent years has happened all over the world, demonstrates that Integrative therapies optimize results in the treatment and recovery of patients in different areas of health specialty. In Portugal it has also evolved, demonstrating and asserting a place of greater exposure and importance.
Many scientific studies have been published in recent years, proving the effectiveness of results in several areas of Traditional and Complementary Medicine.
Currently, it is relatively common to find Acupuncture, Therapeutic Touch or Reiki in many hospital centers across the country, especially as part of Pain Consultations.
The ICT in Pain Course seeks to respond to the growing demand that different therapies have had in recent years and at the same time seeks to fill a gap in the available training offer.
It has become pertinent to create a Postgraduate course that can provide different health professionals with knowledge in new aspects and areas of action, enabling them to provide information scientific knowledge and several tools that are, undoubtedly, already much sought by society, for the treatment of a number of disease conditions, with special attention to pain as vital sign and centered on the different phases of the life cycle.
Health professionals, including TNC's Health Professionals (with certificate)
The health professional provided with the Postgraduate Course in Integrative and Complementary Therapies in Pain Treatment must ensure the necessary competences to apply different treatment techniques in a holistic and integrated way, using integrative and complementary therapies, especially in clinical pain scenarios,
without usurping the functions of Non-Conventional Therapies professionals with their own legislation.
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The professional development project in these specific areas allows the acquirement of skills in different areas such as SPORTS, COMMUNITY HEALTH, GERIATRIC AND PALLIATIVE CARE or the HOSPITAL ASPECT, in the different life cycles.
This course is organized by specific areas, which allow the health professional to be an actor and author of his own professional and academic development project, at his own pace, being able to choose to do some modules (isolated Curricular Units) or complete the postgraduate course.
The objectives aim to provide students with the necessary skills to:
• Provide treatments and promote health using Integrative and Complementary Pain Therapies.
• Provide treatments and promote health with special intervention on Pain, using Oriental Medicine techniques, Tui Nà Massage, Shiatsu, Massage Therapy and Lymphatic Drainage, Clinical Reflexology, Auriculotherapy, Neuromuscular Bands, Therapeutic Touch and Aromatherapy, based on the fundamentals guiding philosophical principles of each therapeutic area.
• Provide expertise in clinically oriented palpatory anatomy, Manipulative Techniques and Diagnostic Assessment Tests, and applied integrative Holistic Kinesiology
to Pain will be fundamental to enhance the different therapeutic techniques of the other Curricular Units.
• Develop diagnoses, prescribe and apply therapies, according to the different guiding principles of the Curricular Units, and integrate them into areas such as “sports health”, “community health” or “intervention in health units”, Geriatrics”,
“Palliative Care”, according to its application and relationship with Pain as a guiding Focus of practice and Vital Sign.
• Use rehabilitation techniques in different areas of intervention.
- Ricardo Picão Caldeira Rodeia - ricardo.rodeia@essnortecvp.pt
Decree-Law no. 74/2006, of 24 March, amended and republished by Decree-Law no. 65/2018, of 16 August