Result of rehabilitation treatment in patients with multiple sclerosis

Abstract

Introduction: multiple sclerosis is a demyelinating, degenerative, chronic and progressive disease of the central nervous system that constitutes one of the causes of neurological disability in young adults. Objective: to evaluate the result of rehabilitative treatment in patients with multiple sclerosis. Method: a development, preexperimental, longitudinal and prospective research was carried out. The study sample consisted of 64 patients diagnosed with multiple sclerosis from the regional multidisciplinary consultation of the Hospital "Arnaldo Milián Castro" in the period from January 2017 to December 2018 to whom the rehabilitation treatmentbased onexercises and magnetic fieldswas applied. Results: it was found that the highest number of patients with multiple sclerosis belonged to the age group between 30 and 39 years (24 patients, 37.5%) and that the female sex prevailed (60 patients, 93.8%), also was found that multiple sclerosis relapsing remmiting accounted for 46.9% and patients with relapsing remmiting and progressive secondary clinical forms had a better response to rehabilitative treatment. Conclusions: the application of rehabilitation treatment with magnetic fields, together with Frenkel exercises, report good results because there was a significant clinical improvement in terms of muscle fatigue and independence in activities of daily living, both in multiple sclerosis relapsing remitting as in progressive secondary, not in the progressive primary clinical form.

Keywords

• physical and rehabilitation medicine
• multiple sclerosis