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The evolution of the rehabilitation treatment to patients with patellar chondromalacia, is one of the polemical topics among the specialists of physical medicine and rehabilitation. This paper aims to elaborate an alternative of rehabilitative treatment for patients with patellar chondromalacia. Different methods and technics were used which allowed us the development of the whole investigative process. The elaboration of the scientific results is corroborated beginning from the diagnosis, where the necessity of an alternative treatment is revealed, because in the consulted literature it becomes evident the presence of lacks of the practical order which justify the present investigation. The results were compared applying the treatment to two groups of patients randomnly selected, one group received the traditional treatment and the other one received the alternative treatment. Some statistical tests were applied like t Student test. The achieved results reveal their validity in practice since the quasi-experiment and it was demonstrated that the relevant clinical effect is high. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper focuses on the confrontation between public health systems of the Welfare States and the private medical offers, which in spite of being directed to satisfy different goals, share the same reproduction logic applied to medical practices. The author underlines the critique to the biomedical model of health care. Then, she analyzes the link among the called alternative medicine, and the alternative movement in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In several studies about the alternative medicine, have been observed characteristics of the adult population. The aim of this study is to discover knowledge that young people have in traditional care and whether transmission occurs equally among men and women. This paper assesses the patterns of transmission through a qualitative study with a young group of Villena (Alicante). In contrast to previous studies, has concluded that the transfer of this knowledge is without gender differences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the kinesiology users' perceptions among middle class individuals of the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires city, linking these perceptions with the view of the alternative medicines offer, especially the options that include corporal-work techniques. The article mainly explores the individuals' ways of healing of whom have selected the option of alternative therapies, which are the most of the cases recorded during the field-work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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