Communicative skills: verbal and non-verbal in physiotherapist practice

Abstract

This study was meant to observe and interpret the verbal and non-verbal
communicative skills of Physiotherapy students during physiotherapeutic
procedures. The work tried to reveal communication, as present in the students' daily life, and retrieve what was possible to be detected. The research was structured from the descriptions of Communicative Skills in Physiotherapy given by the students as observed during their physiotherapeutic practices. The discourse and the analyses enabled the knowledge of meanings and senses directing communication and showing experience in the process. In this context it was observed interpersonal relationship, verbal and nonverbal language, the research during evaluation and the treatment. The Communicative Skills evidenced a way in which the students communicate through their own experience in academic life. Based on the evidence of this skill, a reflection was made and subsides were obtained to think over the act of communication and the learning of physiotherapy.