First Mexican Physiotherapy method based in Neuroscience

Novelo Pérez Fernando

Abstract

Pediatric physiotherapy (PP) is in constant evolution, in the last 20 years neuroscience has made new discoveries and advances about the nervous system and how babies and children learn to move, how the nervous system works after a lesion and what neuroplasticity strategies should activate during therapy. These new knowledge is impacting directly in every theory and techniques in the PF world. Mexico does not have proper strategies to satisfy the need of babies and children with neurological damage, congenital and/or genetic anomalies, Mexican still use classic physiotherapy without scientific evidence; the physio-cognitive method Novelo-Merida (NM) is the Mexican proposal of how to interpret ate and apply all these knowledge under the optic of the cognitive theory.