Atenção ambulatorial de média complexidade em saúde e reabilitação de pessoas com deficiência física no âmbito da Terapia Ocupacional: reflexões a partir da prática

This article aims to contribute to the understanding of medium-complexity ambulatory care delivered to persons with physical impairments and disabilities resulting from these occurrences, through practice developed by the Occupational Therapy with this population at the Center for Teaching and Research of the Department of Physical, Speech and Occupational Therapy at the University of São Paulo, from March 2009 to December 2010, on a weekly basis. Due to the lack of studies on medium complexity health care, official documents of Public Health Policy were used as a guide for reflection on this practice. The research was carried out using a qualitative exploratory approach developed from the documentary study of the records of twenty-two users. It proposes the use of individual, group and body approaches as a means of body reappropriation and capability development to produce one´s own health. For most people, the experience was a chance to receive, albeit partially, their health and rehabilitation needs. The emphasis on the group approach associated with the body approach contributed to improve the user’s ability to self-care, and the integration of the knowledge acquired as a result of interventions with strategies adopted in personal daily life activities