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Evaluación del riesgo de patologías lumbares en cuidadores familiares de pacientes hospitalizados en casa con algún grado de dependencia por alteración de la movilidad utilizando el método MAPO
The work consisted of applying the MAPO method (care mobilization of hospitalized patients) evaluating the biomechanical risk by mobilizing patients to whom the family caregivers of patients hospitalized at home with some degree of dependence are subjected by taking a population group north of the Aburra Valley Performed in the north of the bored valley, in the year 2018; Observational data were taken from 10 caregivers (family members), without distinction of age, gender, race or religion, whose common characteristic is to be in the care of a relative with some degree of physical dependence. The participants were contacted through patients who belong to the physical therapy and home rehabilitation program. It is an exploratory study and uses in the nature of the data observational, quantitative and qualitative methodology; It is exploratory because it is the first time that the risk of lumbar pathologies has been evaluated in family caregivers of patients hospitalized at home with some degree of dependence due to impairment of mobility using the MAPO method. The following variables belonging to the MAPO method were taken: proportion between the number of totally non-collaborating patients and the number of caregivers, elevation factor, proportion between the number of partially collaborating patients and the number of caregivers, minor aid factor, factor of wheelchair, environment factor, and training factor. The study resulted in an MAPO risk index of 18.7 compatible with high exposure risk. We can conclude a high level of exposure of biomechanical risk of the lumbar spine in family caregivers of patients hospitalized at home with some degree of dependence due to mobility impairment according to the characteristics presented by each factor: minor aids, wheelchairs, elevation, place of mobilization, training.