Department of Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28922 Madrid, Spain.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jan 20;19(3):1112. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19031112.
Medicine requires the brightest minds, regardless of gender. Women working in the health sciences have time and again demonstrated the value of their technical training, communication skills, emotional support, and ability to provide understandable explanations to their patients. The objective of this work was to carry out a historical review of the main female authors linked to classic sensorimotor neurorehabilitation techniques throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as female authors linked to eponymous tests or assessments, exposing their scientific trajectory and main contributions to the field of neurological rehabilitation. A literature review was conducted. The databases of Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro), Scopus, CINAHL Medical Science, Medline through EBSCO and PubMed were used to obtain the biographical information of each author, searches of papers were limited until August 2021 in English and Spanish languages. Seventeen female authors were identified who linked to the main rehabilitation techniques or approaches described for neurological rehabilitation and for scales or tests with an eponymous origin as an example of female contribution on neurorehabilitation. Biographical information based on the computerized search in the electronic databases showed 57 potentially relevant articles. Of those articles, 43 were subsequently excluded. Fourteen articles were used to show their contribution to neurorehabilitation. This paper demonstrates the influential role of women in the history of sensorimotor neurorehabilitation throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, linked to the methods, techniques, concepts, or approaches used in physical therapy or occupational therapy.
医学需要最聪明的人才，而不论其性别。在卫生科学领域工作的女性一次又一次地证明了她们的技术培训、沟通技巧、情感支持以及为患者提供易懂解释的能力的价值。这项工作的目的是对 19 世纪和 20 世纪与经典感觉运动神经康复技术相关的主要女性作者，以及与同名测试或评估相关的女性作者进行历史回顾，揭示她们的科学轨迹和对神经康复领域的主要贡献。进行了文献回顾。使用了物理治疗证据数据库（PEDro）、Scopus、CINAHL Medical Science、EBSCO 的 Medline 和 PubMed 来获取每位作者的传记信息，在英语和西班牙语中，搜索论文的时间限制在 2021 年 8 月之前。确定了 17 位女性作者，她们与主要的康复技术或方法有关，这些技术或方法是为神经康复描述的，也与以神经康复为例的同名起源的量表或测试有关，这是女性对神经康复的贡献的一个例子。基于电子数据库中的计算机检索的传记信息显示了 57 篇潜在相关文章。在这些文章中，随后排除了 43 篇。使用了 14 篇文章来展示他们对神经康复的贡献。本文证明了女性在 19 世纪和 20 世纪感觉运动神经康复历史中的重要作用，与物理治疗或职业治疗中使用的方法、技术、概念或方法有关。
