Transdisciplinary Clinical Practice between Physiotherapists and Traumatologists in Orthopaedic Medicine

Abstract

Introduction: The transdisciplinary scope is conceived as an emerging practice and corpus of knowledge since it comes from the interactions between different disciplines. Transdisciplinarity emerges to solve in a more efficient way health problems of humanity that overcome the traditional biomedical interdisciplinary attention model. In this article, the transdisciplinary physiotherapist is exposed as the beginning of an authentic dialogue between the physiotherapist and the traumatologist in the care of the orthopedic patient that includes all treatment phases of integral rehabilitation, as well as its factors to consider the possible advantages and dares that this scope may present to the health services. Objective: This paper aims to propose to the scientific community the context of transdisciplinary clinical practice between traumatologists and physical therapists. Methods: It is performed a grounded theory approach to develop a thesis based on our observations and a reflection of literature that intends to explain transdisciplinary clinical practice phenomenon between traumatologists and physical therapists and pose the potential outcomes of this interactions and its implications. Conclusion: Exist theoretical and practical background to support the clinical practice of transdisciplinary care in Orthopedic and Physical Therapy attention; which make possible professionals to develop transdisciplinary clinical skills, and team shared decision making. Transdisciplinary clinical practice, as with any educational process, should ideally foster specific shared competencies in healthcare professionals, including teamwork, leadership, consensus building, the ability to identify and achieve common patient care goals and variable shared practical skills that may even include other specialization areas.