Estudio cualitativo y comparativo sobre los beneficios en salud de un programa de natación terapéutica

We present a qualitative study about the nature of a swimming therapeutic program, and the benefits in physical and psycho-social health that provides the users who participate in it. We compare these benefits with the obtained ones by the participants in other physical activity programs of playful and recreational character. We justify these activities in municipal sport facilities field because of the answer absence from Sanitary System to the necessities of mobility related to health. Methodologically, our work presents three modalities: (a) study of a case to analyze the program of Therapeutic Swimming; (b) series of cross-sectional cases to analyze the mobility activities; and (c) a specific descriptive study to inform us about the mobility programs that are made in the sanitary institutions. Our analyses it is come off: that the program of therapeutic swimming is a program of education for the health from which important benefits in health are derived from the physical and psycho-social point of view; that most of the users of the programs of mobility of playful character they go with the intention to improve his health and they obtain it, but in much smaller measurement than those of the program of therapeutic swimming; that the sanitary system does not offer suitable answer to the necessities of health related to mobility; that the program of therapeutic swimming arises like answer from the society to its own necessities of health; that the communitarian scope constitutes a space to work for Physiotherapist.