No beginning and no end ... with body practices and Expanded Clinics

Abstract

Over the last few years, although the number of actions regarding body practices/physical activity within primary health care (taken to be a tool for improving the health of the population) has increased, there is an urgent need to qualify these initiatives with a view to accepting and acknowledging people’s healthcare requirements, especially considering the detachment between training and intervention that still persists with healthcare subsectors. For this purpose, we propose interlocution between body practices and Expanded Clinics so as to turn care production into problem-solving actions through a more creative pathway that lays emphasis on movements of composition between the singularities of users and healthcare workers and the principles of the Brazilian National Health System (SUS). With this methodological arrangement, we follow a path involving knowhow in relation to processes and experience of collectively produced care and call for thinking and writing about what lies in between.