Pathology, Treatment, and Rehabilitation of Movement Disorders
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 40
Special Issue Editor
Interests: rehabilitation; biomarkers; outcome measures
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The term “movement disorders” refers to a large and varied group of peripheral and central nervous system conditions that affect the movements. The causes of these disorders are numerous, the pathomechanisms can vary, and often therapies are still lacking.
Recently, only one common practice has emerged as useful in dealing with this type of patient: rehabilitation.
The aim of this Special Issue is to highlight the close connection between pathomechanisms, therapies, and rehabilitation. Knowing the physiological basis of the disease is fundamental to understanding the history of the disease and the possible treatments, but even to consciously choosing which rehabilitation can support the pharmacological therapy. In fact, it is well known that a double pharmacological and rehabilitative treatment provides greater benefits for the patient.
Finally, in recent years, new frontiers of therapies have emerged for some movement disorders. The use of appropriate functional assessments provides a new tool for understanding when and if the new therapy is working.
In this Special Issue, we aim to collect papers regarding the pathomechanisms and therapies in a “rehabilitation-centered” view. We aim to show how rehabilitation can help to reduce the effects of the disease and how it can help pharmacological therapy, as well as how functional assessment can reveal the effects of a new pharmacological treatment or how it can reveal the underlying pathomechanisms of the disease.
Dr. Valeria Prada
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- neurorehabilitation
- outcome measures
- functional assessment
- therapies
