INTEGRALITY IN PHYSICAL REHABILITATION: PROFESSIONALS’ VISION OF THE DIFFICULTIES AND STRATEGIES FOR ITS ACHIEVEMENT.

Objective: to analyze the difficulties and strategies to achieve integrality of care in physical rehabilitation. Method: study based on Hermeneutics-dialectics. Data collection was carried out through semi-structured interviews with analysis through the Meanings Interpretation Method. Twenty-four professionals from a Rehabilitation Center in the countryside of the state of São Paulo, Brazil, participated. Results: five categories emerged: understanding health as a universal right; professional education; multi-professional teamwork; participation of the patient as the protagonist in the care process; strategies for achieve integrality. The difficulties in achieving integrality in physical rehabilitation are related to the user, the care and the management, and suggestions for improvement indicate the importance of reflecting on the practice for structuring courses and training. Conclusion: the difficulties and overcoming strategies point to possible communicative paths with the participation of the actors involved, which can enable integrality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]