Análisis de un caso de afasia a través de la Clasificación Internacional del Funcionamiento, de la Discapacidad y de la Salud

A person with an acquired brain injury entails important personal, familiar, social and ocupational implications. This fact is due to the inherent consequences that the damage in cognitive and motoric functions.

The approach to a patient with a brain injury, perfectly matches those in a transdisciplinar treatment, which is composed by different areas: physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech therapy, Clinical Psychologist, Medicine, etc.

The International Classification Functioning, Disability and Health, developed by World Health Organization, uses an unified standard language, which allows the universal communication about health and sanitary attention between the different approaches. It is based on two different conceptual models (sanitary and social) that have been used to understanding functioning and disability.

This report describes, throughout an observational analysis, the advantages and disadvantages in the application of the Classification in a single case. We realized that the structured and systematic use of this classification enhances the patient description from a “biopsicosocial” view. Therefore, it helps to classificate the cognitive and motoric issues what are damaged (body functions and structures) and also the functional problems that belongs to that alteration (activities and participation). Moreover, it classificates the person environmental characteristics which have a positive or negative influence in his/her autonomy (environmental factors). In this way the intervention path is set in each case, becaming a useful tool to set up functional objectives in acquired brain injury patients.