Co-contração e tomada de peso : técnicas de pressão para modulação do tônus patológico.

Abstract

Contextualize: The muscular tone is described as a type of contraction physiologic, continuous and reflexive, of the voluntary muscles, mediated by the central nervous and peripheral systems and responsible by the maintenance of the posture and of the antigravity actions. When it happens damage in the motive areas of the nervous system the muscular tone modifies itself according to the attacked area and, in agreement with its characteristics, becoming known hypertension or hypotonia. There are many techniques that help the physiotherapist in the modulation of the pathological tone, including making weight and co-contraction.Objective: To accomplish literature revision about the techniques of making weight and Co-contraction, as well as to develop the descriptive and photographic register from the physiotherapeutic clinic practice. Materials and Methods: Revision of narrative literature and descriptive and photographic register of the handlings. To do so, it was researched the word-keys “making weight”, “inhibitory pressure”, “co-activation” and “co-contraction”, in the bases of data PubMed, PEDro, SciELO and BSV-BIREME, in publications in the period from 2005 to 2015. It was also accomplished description of the handlings starting from the observation and clinical. Results: It was found that there is no registers in the literature surveyed handling, although they are very used and of effectiveness recognized in the physiotherapeutic clinic.Conclusion: Although found scant literary registers, which do not show making weight and co-contraction as therapeutic resources in area neurofunctional, it was possible to describe, to register in images and to analyze your mode of performance on the pathological muscular tone.