Lifestyle adaptation in hemiparetic patients

Abstract

The fundamental factors that contribute to the formation of lifestyle (inferiority, attitude towards life's demands, overcoming inferiority, and masculine protest) are recalled and, based on experience gained in a clinic specializing in rehabilitative physical therapy, it is noted that hemiparesis has always changed the lifestyle of patients, who were generally between 45 and 60 years of age, not only requiring them to adapt to their new status, but also to claim rights that were previously unfulfilled. This led to the need for the subjects to be assessed from a psychological point of view. In addition to having individual characteristics due to their different experiences, the different ways in which they have lived them, and the different personalities that have thus been formed, the patients also have other characteristics that depend on their gender, social, professional, and family status. Two examples are given, and it is emphasized that, even though patients do not generally request analytical treatment, individual psychological psychoeducation must still be provided to help them accept the new situation created by hemiplegia