Martine Samé
Campus Sante Porte de Paris, France
Title: Normative plasticity in physiotherapy: A scientific and ethical key issue
Biography
Biography: Martine Samé
Abstract
Physiotherapy and ethics are often considered as two different and opposite worlds, whereas their common rigorous constant
quest for a better life makes them a single rational approach in a rehabilitative process. In order to illustrate the importance of a
combined physio-ethical treatment to gain excellence in physiotherapy, the field of plasticity will be explored in the light of neuro
scientific research and philosophical expectations. The ethical requirement that human dignity should be respected, specifically
every one’s mental and biological ability to create and choose new norms and paces of life, will be related to some principles of neural
plasticity to apply in our physiotherapy practice. This perspective demonstration will thus discuss evidence that such a plasticity
strategy, when taking into consideration the normative human capacity as a whole, provides essential key issues to help health
professionals and patients invent a more individualized functional space to adapt to and to live in.