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Chapter 6 **Parkinson's Disease Rehabilitation: Effectiveness Approaches and New Perspectives 115** Luciana Auxiliadora de Paula Vasconcelos

Preface

chapters are highly engaging.

ters for their contributions.

Physical therapy involves non-pharmacological interventions in various clinical conditions. There‐ fore, it is important to highlight the procedures that are suitable, effective and, in general, do not have side effects or complications when properly performed. Physical therapy can be valuable in different situations along various steps of an individual's life and in various clinical disorders. In‐ deed, the editors wanted to select chapters that could be useful for readers and could contribute to improving their professional performance. In this book, there are six sections and the topics and

The sections are (i) *physical therapy interventions for the pelvic floor* will bring new findings about the interventions in women's health and in the management of reproductive disorders; (ii) *musculoskele‐ tal rehabilitation with physical therapy approaches* will explore the relevance of the whole-body vibra‐ tion exercise as an intervention to improve musculoskeletal performance and the medical quality outcomes and achievements of a multi-disciplinary inpatient musculoskeletal system rehabilitation; (iii) *neurophysiological aspects and physical therapy interventions* will discuss neuroscience and the effec‐ tiveness of motor imagery on physical therapy and its neurophysiological aspects and interventions in Parkinson´s disease rehabilitation indicating the effectiveness of the approaches and new per‐ spectives; (iv) *physical therapy interventions related to pulmonary conditions* with the application of a single case study or case research design to present the rehabilitation effectiveness in a clinic, in the targeting of limb muscle dysfunction in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the early mobili‐ zation in patients with mechanical ventilation; (v) *physical therapy interventions associated with chronic clinical conditions* will demonstrate the relevance of actions in clinical chronic conditions of physical activity in non-communicable diseases and of the extracorporeal shock wave therapy in chronic wound care, and finally; (vi) *conceptual approaches of physical therapy interventions* discusses the effect and exercise, the conceptual framework for the inclusion of recreational therapy within South Afri‐

can healthcare paradigms and the question of "Is manual therapy art or science?".

might contribute to health promotion, wellbeing, and human development.

The readers will have the opportunity to read about the latest findings related to various ap‐ proaches of interventions in several fields related to health sciences. It is expected that this book

At the end, the editors would like to thank the publisher IntechOpen and all the authors of the chap‐

**Mario Bernardo-Filho**

**Redha Taiar**

Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil **Danúbia da Cunha de Sá-Caputo**

Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil

Laboratory of Mechanical Vibration and Integrative Practices

Laboratory of Mechanical Vibration and Integrative Practices

Faculty Bezerra de Araújo, Physiotherapy Course, Brazil

University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France

