**Meet the editors**

Mario Bernardo-Filho is the Head of the *Laboratório de Vibrações Mecânicas e Práticas Integrativas-LAVIMPI, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcantara Gomes, Departamento de Biofísica e Biometria, Policlínica Piquet Carneiro, UERJ*. He has completed the academic courses of biomedicine and physiotherapy, and obtained his PhD (1988). In 1999, he became a Full Professor (UERJ). He has started and su-

pervised research (2010) involving integrative and complementary medicine (auriculotherapy and acupuncture) and mechanical vibrations generated from a vibrating platform that produces whole body vibration exercises (WBVE) when a subject is in contact with a platform. Studies to evaluate the consequences of WBVE and extracts of medicinal plants in rats are ongoing. Investigations on the effects of the WBVE in individuals with different diseases and healthy people are ongoing too. He is the supervisor of Master of Sciences and PhD theses and has participated and lectured in various national and international congresses. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Brazilian Journal of Health and Biomedical Sciences, and guest editor of some scientific journals. He is the reviewer of several scientific journal indexed in the PubMed and Scopus.

She has been a postdoctoral fellow of the Laboratory of Mechanical Vibration and Integrative Practices, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil since 2016. She has been a professor and researcher in the Faculdade Bezerra de Araújo since 2017. She completed her academic course of Physiotherapy in 2004. She obtained her Master's degree in 2015 and her PhD degree in 2016 with

studies involving whole-body vibration exercises in chronic diseases. She performed her first postdoctorate in Université de Reims in 2018 and a second in Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro in 2019. Nowadays, she researches the biological, biophysical, and biomechanical effects in individuals with different clinical conditions and healthy individuals that are exposed to mechanical vibration from a vibrating platform.

He is a biomechanic and a Professor at the University of Reims Champaign France. He is Head of the RTBE (Redha Taiar Biomechanical Engineering) Society developed for sport and medical advice for the industry. His research focuses on the industry engineering for medicine and high-level sport. He is an engineer for different industries such as high-level sport and Sidas, Medicap-

teur for the medical development. In the industry, his last work was for the Notrax Society on conception and validation of anti-fatigue mats. For sport, his last work focused on the development of a swimsuit for triathlons and swimming for the Brazil Olympic Games (2016) and suit fabrics for skiing in the Olympic Games at Sotchi in 2014. He is responsible for different patents such as the development of a new kind of knee rehabilitation tool for high-level athletes and pathological subjects, and the conception of a new shoe for high-level athletes and pathological subjects. Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Physical Therapy Interventions in Pelvic Floor 1**

Dani Zoorob and Sara Anderson

**Reproductive Disorders 15**

Joseph A. Balogun

**Approaches 45**

**Rehabilitation 65**

**Interventions 93**

Yoshibumi Bunno

Filho

Chapter 1 **Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy and Women's Health 3**

Chapter 2 **Efficacy of Physical Therapy in the Management of**

**Section 2 Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation with Physical Therapy**

**Musculoskeletal Performance 47**

**Section 3 Neurophysiological Aspects and Physical Therapy**

Chapter 5 **Effectiveness of Motor Imagery on Physical Therapy:**

Chapter 3 **Whole-Body Vibration Exercise as an Intervention to Improve**

Chapter 4 **What to Expect: Medical Quality Outcomes and Achievements of a Multidisciplinary Inpatient Musculoskeletal System**

**Neurophysiological Aspects of Motor Imagery 95**

Vincent Grote, Alexandra Unger, Henry Puff and Elke Böttcher

Danúbia da Cunha de Sá-Caputo, Redha Taiar and Mario Bernardo-
