[Chronic diseases in neuromotor rehabilitation medicine.]

Objectives: Chronic diseases are a major problem, whose importance is nowadays raising up. Up to 86% of deaths are directly related to chronic diseases in Europe as they represent large amount of total diseases, with a major impact on global health spending.
Methods: Patients suffering from heterogeneous disabilities (such as Parkinson's disease, stroke, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis) often show an interaction between the main disease and comorbidity and multimorbidity.
Results: Therefore, the complicate interaction between all these ailments must be faced following specific care pathways. Within the latter ones, pharmacological, physical/cognitive and other (surgical and non-surgical) treatments should be reconciled in order to produce a synergic effect to counteract patient's clinical problems.
Conclusions: Finally, neuromotor rehabilitation medicine should not only be considered as a step following the acute phase but also as an effective tool of secondary and tertiary prevention aimed to avoid relapses and re-hospitalization as well as to improve patient's quality of life.
Competing Interests: The authors of this article have no conflict of interests to disclose.
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