Ana Carolina
Facchin
Estudante
Federal University of Juiz de Fora
Student of the Physiotherapy course at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. She is a member of the ADAPT Project Promoting Mobility extension project for children and adolescents with disabilities, at the UFJF Faculty of Physiotherapy (2022-current). She is currently also president of the October 13th Academic Directory of the UFJF Faculty of Physiotherapy and is part of the Academic League for Interprofessionality in Health Care.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Chronic pain is a condition that affects thousands of individuals who seek health services every day. Patients with chronic pain require a biopsychosocial perspective, requiring comprehensive assistance, which goes beyond the field of health and education. In this context, interprofessional work allows this condition to have a broad view, improving patients quality of life and minimizing suffering. Despite this, there is a gap in the training of professionals involved in this care, both from the point of view of patient management and in relation to the importance of teamwork for the…