Editorial Universidad de los Llanos

El mundo oculto de los habitantes acuáticos del campus Barcelona de la Universidad de los Llanos

2024-12-12T17:21:06-05:00

Aquatic ecosystems are home to an amazing biodiversity, from microalgae to fish, which play a crucial role in their ecological balance. This book offers a detailed tour of the aquatic fauna of the Barcelona campus of the Universidad de los Llanos, the result of an interdisciplinary effort between students, teachers and graduates of the Biology program at Unillanos.

Through accessible descriptions, accompanied by illustrations and unpublished photographs, each chapter explores the secrets of microalgae, aquatic macroinvertebrates, adult odonates and fish, inviting the reader to discover their biological richness in aquatic environments.

This work not only seeks to highlight the scientific and ecological importance of the University's Barcelona campus as a biodiverse campus, but also to inspire a deep sense of belonging and responsibility towards the conservation of its bodies of water. This is a work that transcends the academic sphere, inviting both students and the community in general to admire and protect this valuable living museum.

Reflexiones sobre educación matemática desde la etnomatemática

2024-09-06T10:26:16-05:00

Currently, there is a growing interest in the community of mathematics educators in the social, cultural and political aspects of Mathematics Education. This book offers the reader a compilation of research results, projects and educational practices that explore various possibilities of research and classroom work from the perspective of Ethnomathematics.

On the one hand, teachers in initial training are presented with a vision of mathematics as a human and social production, where mathematical knowledge is integrated as part of the cultural diversity of peoples. Emphasis is placed on inclusive mathematics for all, where protagonism as producers of mathematical knowledge is encouraged and values such as respect for diversity of thought, dignity, social inclusion, justice and intercultural dialogue are promoted.

On the other hand, practicing teachers are offered tools to reflect on their own practice, based on mathematical aspects of their culture. It seeks to promote teaching and learning from a situated approach that recognizes and values the cultural and social contexts in which mathematics education takes place.

Crónicas, memoria, conflicto y escuela

2024-07-11T11:05:51-05:00

In the heart of Colombia, where violence has left deep scars, stands the heroic figure of the teachers of Meta. This book is a tribute to them, to their courage, their unwavering commitment to education and their ability to transform reality through teaching. Through chronicles and poems, this work brings us closer to some of the stories of these teachers, victims of the armed, political and social conflict; they are stories that move us, that invite us to reflect on the consequences of the conflict and that inspire us to fight for a more just and peaceful world. Crónicas, memorias, conflicto y escuela is not just a book, it is an experience. It is an opportunity to listen to the voices of those who have lived through the violence, to understand the impact of the conflict on education and to value the work of teachers.

Plain words

2024-01-22T12:15:22-05:00

We aspire to be capable of universality from our flat terroir; we write -like all men- against oblivion...*.
Palabras Llanas perhaps evokes, in the first place, the Orinoco territory, but the sense it intends is simplicity or plainness in language -its elemental sobriety- a demand as seductive as it is unattainable, especially when it comes to learning a craft as complex as creative writing. It has been difficult to achieve the purpose of not tinkering with the language. Perhaps, as pioneer goatherds, we are just beginning to clear a path that hopefully will be traveled and consolidated by others in the Llanos, the patient work of weaving words that lead to transcend the merely landscape to narrate authentically the spirit or the human effect, to tell from tradition or from the bold experimentation the resonances of the soul: realities, dreams, fictions and hopes. Thinking and practicing an ethereal, fresh language, made up of his own voices that do not reject; however, foreign words, he submits them to the sieve of inquisitive thought, full of tigritude, proud of places and customs, but with a strong desire to fraternize, hospitable as the good "llaneros", with all human cultures. Palabras Llanas is the first compilation of the Writers' Workshop of the Universidad de los Llanos (2016 - 2017). It aims to motivate those interested, especially young people, to share a taste for writing as a creative act.

Special mathematics for engineering - Fundamentals

2023-10-25T13:58:35-05:00

This text is conceived and designed as support material for the development of a Special Mathematics course, the last one in the traditional curricular structure of the Mathematics area in Engineering programs. The text is structured in three large thematic units: the first one deals with the Laplace transform focused on the solution of initial value problems, the second one presents the elements of complex variable calculus and the last one deals with the basic topics of Fourier analysis.
The way the text is structured and the way the different topics are presented correspond to the logical sequence of their construction from the mathematical point of view and were specially oriented by the teaching experience of the authors with the students of the subject of Special Mathematics, in the programs of Electronic Engineering and Systems Engineering, of the Faculty of Basic Sciences and Engineering of the Universidad de los Llanos.

Plant Histology

2023-06-28T14:17:50-05:00

The authors are grateful to the Universidad de los Llanos, because through the call for research, authorized by the Research Council, the project FCBI-7-2012 entitled "Development of multimedia material in Plant Morphology and Histology, using a metacognitive strategy to strengthen the learning of students in the courses of Biology, Botany and Plant Education of the Bachelor in Agricultural Production at the Universidad de los Llanos" was funded. This work gathers several results of this research.

My warm garden of aromatic, medicinal and spice plants

2023-07-25T10:49:24-05:00

The book you have in your hands is born from the desire to share what I have learned with so much interest and affection in several years of work and transmit to my students in the course of Aromatic, Medicinal and Condimentary Plants (PAMC) in the Agronomic Engineering Program of the Universidad de los Llanos. I am always enthusiastic about teaching those who want to learn and who can enjoy the satisfaction of knowing how to plant, harvest and take advantage of the plants that interest them. In this book I deal, in the simplest and clearest way, without ceasing to be technical and with the support of a large number of my own photographs, the most important aspects of 14 plant species, such as the flower of Jamaica, delicious drink, sweet and wine; turmeric, beautiful pigment and great medicine; ginger, exquisite spicy citrus flavor; the soon relief, for the placid digestion; rosemary, of strong imprint; basil, soft digestive condiment; coca, which is rest and medicine; lemongrass, relaxing flavor and aroma; citronella, great repellent and air freshener; chili, delicious companion; annatto, colorful pigment; bore, great protein content; aloe vera, of great contribution to beauty; and moringa, a good nutritional supplement. We hope to open readers' minds to the possibilities; there is much to do and learn.

The discourses of the body in the field of physical education. An approach to the curricular design of the Physical Education degree program at the Universidad de los Llanos

2023-08-08T11:17:16-05:00

The discourses of the body in the field of physical education is a captivating work that explores the meanings inherent in the discursive practice of the body within the framework of the curricular structure of the Physical Education teacher training program at the aforementioned university. This analysis is carried out from an archeological-genealogical perspective, providing a novel and critical view of how corporeality is approached in this context. From an archeological perspective, the book delves into a thorough analysis of the "archives" or documentary materials of the curriculum, the research agendas of the program's professors, the academic productivity (books, articles, records), as well as the advanced or postgraduate training of the professors. This approach makes it possible to trace the vestiges of discursive practices about the body, establishing a dialogue between past and present. On the other hand, the genealogical analysis examines the conditions that allowed discourses about the body to become institutionalized since 1998 and to become legitimized practices in teacher training. This work, then, illuminates how these discourses have influenced and continue to shape the training of Physical Education teachers at the Universidad de los Llanos.

Introduction to PIC microcontroller programming

2022-11-21T09:54:11-05:00

Digital systems are the basis of modern electronic equipment, where its core is centered on a microcontroller or processor. Learning how to program a microcontroller and properly use its peripherals is the basis for the design of current electronic technologies.

This book begins by recalling the basic concepts of C programming that are used in microcontroller programming. It then presents the way in which the data bus architecture operates to acquire information, process it and expose it to the user.

This opens the way to examples of the rest of the microcontroller architecture, with modules for analog-to-digital conversion, serial communication, analog comparison, and so on. These are covered in the framework of application examples, which orient the reader to their use and potential.

At the end of each chapter, the reader is left with proposed exercises that, supported by the previous documentation, will allow him to consolidate his knowledge and challenge himself to generate new applications.

Digital circuit design using VHDL and Nexys 3 board

2022-11-18T11:15:08-05:00

The design of digital systems has evolved from Transistor Transistor Logic (TTL logic) to the use of hardware description languages and CAD tools. The learning and use of these languages and tools are the fundamental basis for the current design of digital applications of combinational, sequential and finite state machines.

Fundamentals of electrical circuits. Laboratory Practices

2022-11-18T15:17:30-05:00

Electrical circuits are fundamental in the basic structure of modern technology; this is why it is important that, from the training received, professionals in electrical and electronic engineering are competent in the design, construction and analysis of electrical equipment and systems that contribute to technological progress.

To achieve this objective, the analysis of electrical circuits is fundamental, since it has an impact on other disciplines that have emerged from electrical engineering, such as telecommunications, robotics, mechatronics, systems and computer engineering, electronic instrumentation, electromechanics, automation and control.

This book begins with the study of the variables and elements that make up an electrical circuit, and then takes on the basic analysis of resistive circuits, the study and mastery of the methods and techniques for their analysis and design.

Likewise, the laboratory practices presented seek to support the student to apply the concepts and develop skills in the analysis and design of direct current (DC) electrical circuits. The structure of the text has been adapted for those who are approaching the study of electrical circuits for the first time.

Physical education for health. Orientations for elementary school classes

2023-07-18T10:31:42-05:00

This book compiles a series of experiences that are the result of the intervention of the project of physical education for health at school, application of the SPARK program, adapted to schoolchildren between 6 and 11 years of age, whose purpose was to evaluate the motor age of schoolchildren, inquire about their habits and lifestyles and, with the results, adapt activities to elementary school contexts to promote the practice of healthy habits and lifestyles.

Species of liverworts and mosses. Foothill zone, surroundings of Villavicencio, Meta

2023-08-04T14:34:43-05:00

This catalog is presented as a result of the project Study of the bryoflora associated with piedmont ecosystems in the surroundings of Villavicencio, Meta. The ecosystems are described as study areas characterized by forests with a wide vegetation cover. The bryophytes are a group of plants that, although apparently simple, are an important representation in the biodiversity and water dynamics of the Colombian Orinoco The experiences with the students of the Biology of Lower Plants course, who since 2009, During the field trips that are part of their academic training and together with the teachers of the course, they have taken samples in different areas of the foothills, such as the Botanical Garden of Villavicencio (JBV), Vanguardia Alta, Santa María La Baja, Buena Vista, El Carmen and El Triunfo hills. The catalog is accompanied by photographs, illustrations, taxonomical aspects of the specimens collected, as well as morphological descriptions based on plant material and bibliographical consultation.

A glimpse of Salamanca

2022-11-21T11:31:09-05:00

Those of us who knew Rafael Pardo and shared with him the years of his academic work at the Universidad de los Llanos witnessed his permanent obsession for the progress of our institution. Rafael was proud to be a conservative, but we always saw him as one of those liberals of mind and intellect, creator of far-reaching projects, tireless in his work to convince his colleagues, directors and students to think big to leave a mark on future generations.

He fought day after day for the reforms he saw as necessary and pushed forward, against all odds, the creation of new faculties and new programs. He was an enemy of seeing his university conform to the image of being a small university, because, for him, the limit was his own imagination.

When he enjoyed his sabbatical year, he surprised us with the idea of spending it getting to know one of the oldest universities in the world, the University of Salamanca. We took it as a pleasant exercise in historical research, very much in accordance with his conservative mentality. We were very wrong.

Tropical ecosystems and their conflicts. Case studies in the Orinoquia piedmont.

2023-08-08T14:11:47-05:00

The ecosystems of the Orinoquia provide environmental services associated with regulation, provisioning and culture. The natural reserves in the Orinoquia are protected areas of importance for wildlife, especially those at risk of extinction. They are areas that provide ecosystem services to the urban area of Villavicencio and, at the same time, are examples of environmental conservation and welfare scenarios. On the other hand, agroecosystems have a high biological richness. However, anthropogenic activities, such as the introduction of exotic species, pollution, illegal logging, mining, forest fires and urbanization due to population growth, have diminished the fauna and flora species of all biological groups. For this reason, the academy plays a fundamental role in the formation of people aware of the fragility of natural wealth and the sustainable use of biological resources. Ecosistemas tropicales y sus conflictos: estudios de caso en el Piedemonte de la Orinoquía is a book that gathers the results of sampling and analysis of areas of great ecological importance in the Orinoquia, specifically in the municipality of Villavicencio.

At six floors

2023-11-27T13:55:03-05:00

De seis pisos is an anthology of poetry written at the Universidad de los Llanos in Villavicencio, Meta. Six authors with close ties to this institution participate in it, some as teachers or former teachers and others as students and graduates, which makes the work not only manifest the concern for poetry (within the academic spaces: corridors, classrooms, gyms and laboratories...) of an individual, but of a collective, of a resonance between subjects. This is proven by the themes, images and sensations that are repeated among the authors, despite the differences in time and space of their texts.

Roots and dreams

2024-01-26T11:45:47-05:00

The French philosopher Jean-Marie Schaeffer has persuaded us that there is nothing in fiction that has not come out of reality; for this reason, the fictional capacity is a cornerstone for the construction of social reality, since the aesthetic nature of works of art is not something intrinsic to the works, but a human dimension, a capacity that manifests itself in everyday life, implying that from its local voice any narrator can affect reality.

Raíces y Sueños is a unique work that, consequently, is close to what Schaeffer postulated; conceived from the eyes of a son of Orocué, in which beautifully flourish, like aquatic flowers, telluric dictates of the blood, expressions of genes acrisolados by men on horseback. A novel about and from the Llano, saturated with equinoctial shines in which mythical rivers and almost Macondian characters, transhumants of the savannah of Casanare, intertwine. A historical chronicle overflowing with imagination that raises another superb trip to our Creole roots: we drink from the pristine jar of the 'llaneridad' forged by immemorial crossings of languages and cultures, raving or reverie that flow from the pen of Jairo Ruíz Churión that traps us as readers and invites us to embark on a sort of Jacob's ladder in contravía: a symbolic landscape of adrenergic descent from the clouds of the cultural alienation in which we live to return to the Llano, the true paradise to be maintained, the true paradise of the world.

Teacher professional identity

2023-07-13T11:58:51-05:00

The configuration of the professional teaching identity of the early childhood educator is not linear, it is an identity under construction, zigzagging, with ups and downs, with a deep passion for the formative path of this profession, but also with intense questioning about the desire and interest in being a professional in early childhood pedagogy. The students' narratives show the tensions, uncertainties and concerns in the labor and professional development of early childhood pedagogues, which are caused by the Colombian teacher education policies for preschool education professionals. A crisis arises in the configuration of the professional teaching identity of the students in formation of the Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Pedagogy at the Universidad de los Llanos, which demands a deep curricular reflection in the academic instances of the program with the students that advance this professional formation.

Introduction to veterinary clinical biochemistry

2022-11-21T10:55:23-05:00

This book addresses, in a simple and concise manner, the main topics of clinical biochemistry applied to veterinary medicine. To this end, the knowledge is built from the structural and functional characteristics of biomolecules and their insertions in metabolic pathways, passing through the metabolic disorders in which they participate, and culminating with the clinical correlations and their diagnostic interpretations.

The text is concerned with making clinical biochemistry understandable to undergraduate students, an understanding that is often hindered by complexity, lack of integration between topics, and the amount of available literature. Although the text has been written primarily with students in mind, veterinarians from different areas of the profession will also find information relevant to clinical practice, as well as other professionals in the agricultural and biomedical sciences.

The content of this book reflects more than thirty years of experience of its authors as teachers in the area of veterinary clinical biochemistry in renowned universities in Colombia and Brazil. This work had its first Portuguese-language edition published in 2003, followed by two more, revised and expanded, in 2006 and 2017, all under the auspices of Editora da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre (Brazil). This edition, the first in Spanish, is the result of the joint work of that Editora with Editorial Unillanos, in Villavicencio (Colombia), having been revised and expanded.

Prospective analysis of Meta's exports to the Andean Community

2023-06-07T16:02:56-05:00

Economic growth demands that the departments export their goods and services, but crossing the border of national territory implies taking on the challenges posed by international trade. One of the first challenges to get ahead in the export bet lies in the criterion of institutions and organizations to design joint actions to project the economy abroad.

This book presents an overview of international agreements and the competitiveness of the department of Meta, as a preamble to recognize the importance of the Andean Community in international trade. In addition, it establishes the starting point for a prospective analysis that considers the participation of the actors involved in the growth and economic development of the department, with the purpose of proposing the actions that should be followed to conquer the Andean market, the international market most related to Meta. The author invites us to build a promising future, as long as we commit ourselves to design the future we want and need.

Disaster management for flooding in Villavicencio

2023-07-12T10:16:09-05:00

Natural disasters are phenomena that significantly affect people's quality of life and their consequences can be catastrophic. For this reason, governments establish within their public policies guidelines for risk management in cities, through mechanisms that provide comprehensive attention and mitigate the social, economic and environmental impact. Flood disaster management in Villavicencio investigates the regulations that currently cover the capital of Meta, making a detailed study of the regulations and the repercussions of their implementation -and non-implementation-. In this way, the actors, scenarios and characteristics of a city with more than forty neighborhoods at risk are analyzed. The authors propose a critique of the failure to comply with the guidelines and the consequences of the lack of design and execution of action plans consistent with the reality of a city highly prone to flood disasters.

on the excursion through the geography of freedom

2023-06-08T15:22:25-05:00

Freedom is a value that has enjoyed great symbolic prestige throughout history and is, in turn, a highly complex construct that has been debated between deterministic, indeterministic and intermediate positions, giving rise to nebulous issues that, if not examined with caution, can lead to countless uncertainties, misunderstandings and transgressions: am I free not to take responsibility? Can freedom end up being such an uncomfortable problem for someone that they shy away from it, and am I not free if I choose to live under the submission or control of another? What role do relativism, chance, imperfectibility, subjectivity, necessity and ignorance play in the very nature of freedom? Is there no place to be free in a world commanded by biological, social, cultural, political, economic, linguistic, technological, educational, legal, geographical, physical, historical, moral, etc. factors? To what extent have millions of human beings been deprived of their bodies, conscious and unconscious of their slavery? What are the implications of the freedoms of teaching, of worship, of expression... in their ethical behavior? How free am I?...? And other problems that the reader has encountered in the uneven postural geography presented by the phenomenon of freedom, trying to find some clear ones that will allow him to contribute to its understanding. Therefore, it is a profuse, intricate and multidimensional reality that presupposed a critical prism that congregates several reflective glances in a logic of synthesis and complexity, thus configuring this discursive structure in a journey that hopes to promote other levels of depth and routes of exploration.

Bodies without souls. Bodies without God

2023-06-08T13:38:02-05:00

Undoubtedly, the multidirectional phenomenon of education affects the body in countless planes, moments and places. But religious education is perhaps the most powerful influence to which humans have been exposed since time immemorial and from childhood, which has transformed their conscience, convictions and ways of living together to unsuspected limits.

And even though this area of study may seem very strange in physical education, given the widespread sports-oriented and schooled notion of it, as well as the reductionist perception of the body, this essay seeks to defend its academic-scientific legitimacy by approaching the catechized bodies. To this end, several questions are explored: to what extent has Christianity penetrated corporeality when it comes to evangelizing the being, its freedom, environment, worldview and meaning of life? To what extent has the Judeo-Christian ethical system permeated, molded and led the body (in the broadest and highest sense of the word)? What role did Christianity and the Catholic Church play in the history of slavery? How much weight have their verses and precepts had on the sexual dimension of their faithful? How have their stories of souls, gods, saints, heavens and hells, taken for unobjectionable and untouchable, had an impact on decorporealization? How and why were they conceived? What motives are hidden behind them all? And, of course, what reasons have the unbelievers had for not considering the dogmas of the Churches in the formation of their identities and their projects without fear of condemnation? What notion of the body (life, death, happiness...) do they have? What are their ethics?

Wet before use

2023-12-06T11:15:28-05:00

Mójese antes de usar is a posthumous novel by poet and friend Carlos Pachón. It narrates the wanderings and occurrences of a young writer in the city of Villavicencio in the 80s and 90s. With an urban and informal language, but full of poetic and literary images, Pachón reveals another face of the territory of the plains beyond the landscape, and puts in the center of the panorama a human being writer who seeks to survive the tedium of his daily life through his letters.

"Sport, Social Inclusion, and Community Experiences in Latin America"

2023-06-27T09:27:36-05:00

Thirteen Latin American authors came together to create Deporte, inclusión social y experiencias comunitarias en América Latina, a work that compiles the work of teachers and researchers who, from their own territories, have discovered how sport can contribute to change in society. Each chapter covers different experiences where the most important actors are the State, as the guarantor of rights; the physical education teacher, as the executor of policies and responsible for practices that contribute to the development of a community; and physical activity, as an instrument to generate various inclusion initiatives. The book offers an overview of the different realities of countries such as Colombia, Mexico, Argentina and Cuba, discussed at the third Latin American and Caribbean Conference on Social Sports and Recreation for Inclusion, with the aim of maintaining a permanent reflection and openness to academic dialogue on sports.

Informal economy in Villavicencio with a neo-structuralist approach

2023-07-19T12:25:31-05:00

In the city of Villavicencio, nearly half of the employed labor force belongs to the informal sector. From street vendors to workers who do not comply with the minimum labor rights are the most evident face of a problem, which has its own dynamics of an economy that has not been able to respond to the challenge of informality. However, in spite of the fact that different governments have tried to implement policies to face this situation, the actions have not been efficient because they are temporary measures of a police type that do not help to mitigate the growth of informality. Thus, the authors propose a different approach to understand this phenomenon and provide a perspective that facilitates the dimensioning of the behavior of informality from a neo-structuralist viewpoint.

From protest to revolution: social movements in the economic and social construction of Colombia.

2023-11-27T12:02:36-05:00

From Protest to Revolution presents an approach from economics on social movements to show the similarities and differences with respect to the approaches and contents of other social sciences. The theme aims to give a human and collective sense to economics that is related to the use of knowledge in and for society. This is why the author applies his own method to narrate a scenario, which despite its nuances, appears conjunctural in the midst of the new and continuous national panoramas.

Occasional considerations. Articles, essays and conferences

2023-12-05T16:29:13-05:00

We welcome and wish a qualified reception in the university and cultural sphere in general, to the significant and recent work of Professor Nayib Camacho O., Consideraciones ocasionales.
This new work, which we have had the privilege of reading, stands out for its wise critical approach and for its sensitivity in addressing and raising decisive issues of our daily living, deliberating and thinking on campus and in the diverse and complex universe of culture, the arts, science and technology.
It is a multipurpose and necessary book, to be read between the lines, as it constitutes a bold and to that extent authentic record, to break our conformism and passivity in relation to the flashpoints that occupy our daily concerns. To the extent that the book thematizes them, it makes them suggestive for reflection and analysis.

Miguel Antonio Guerrero Borda

Stories from the Orinoco country

2023-12-05T14:44:04-05:00

The Orinoco country: a territory as imaginary as it is real. This region of contrasts and exotic landscapes is the scenario where stories of an enigmatic land that preserves narratives and traditions rooted in the memory of those who sail its waters are recreated. Relatos del país del Orinoco gathers the memories of a man who grew up in the immensity of the jungle that overflows the banks of the Orinoco; it portrays iconic characters and emotional experiences that will mark in the reader's imagination new nuances of an unknown "country" that transcends borders beyond any map.

Laboratorio de electromagnetismo

2023-11-30T11:04:18-05:00

Electromagnetism Laboratory is a support tool for teaching and was created with the objective of strengthening the knowledge of electrostatics, electric currents, elementary circuits and magnetism. Its purpose is based on eleven practices oriented to the realization of experiments, through the proper handling of precision instruments and the strengthening of analysis skills.
The practices presented in Laboratorio de Electromagnetismo are the result of the experience acquired in more than ten years of teaching by the author, who has chosen the laboratory activities taking as a reference the current conditions of the instruments, equipment and materials of the Physics Laboratory of the Universidad de los Llanos.

Fundamentals of Cow Reproduction

2023-07-24T10:03:20-05:00

This book introduces the reader to recent models and concepts of contemporary knowledge. Based on an extensive bibliographic review, this book brings together the new paradigms in topics such as the physiology of the estrous cycle, the oviduct, embryo implantation, gestation, among others. Its contribution, significant in this field of science, will provide a fundamental tool in the professional training of veterinarians and zootechnicians, as well as a starting point for future research. In each chapter, the authors reflect their own knowledge, from their academic and scientific experience, to provide the reader with a complete work, at the forefront of knowledge, with a didactic writing that will guide the processes of teaching, learning and research in this area of livestock sciences.

Exercises for the prevention of disability in people affected by leprosy (PAL)

2023-06-09T13:28:32-05:00

Motor disability is one of the most serious consequences in leprosy patients. Although this disease was declared by the WHO as a public health problem and the actions taken have helped to reduce its spread, leprosy is still present in the 21st century.

Untimely access to adequate care and the current belief that the disease has disappeared have led to an alarming number of cases in Colombia.

Disability prevention is key to diminish the effects of the disease.

Exercises for the prevention of disability in people affected by leprosy (PAL) presents a scheme of exercises based on Orem's self-care theory. Thanks to its methodology and simple activities, it contributes to the prevention of disability caused by the disease and rehabilitation of those affected by leprosy.