IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v20y2023i10p5793-d1144738.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Physical Rehabilitation of Motor Functional Neurological Disorders: A Narrative Review

Author

Listed:
  • Ayelet N. Kelmanson

    (Department of Physical Therapy, Recanati School for Community Health Professions, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel)

  • Leonid Kalichman

    (Department of Physical Therapy, Recanati School for Community Health Professions, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel)

  • Iuly Treger

    (Department of Rehabilitation, Soroka Medical Center, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel
    Department of Medicine, Faculty for Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel)

Abstract

Functional Neurological Disorders (FNDs) are one of the most common and disabling neurological disorders, affecting approximately 10–30% of patients in neurology clinics. FNDs manifest as a range of motor, sensory, and cognitive symptoms that are not explained by organic disease. This narrative review aims to assess the current state of knowledge in physical-based rehabilitation for motor/movement FNDs in the adult population, with the goal of improving research and medical care for this patient population. To ensure optimal outcomes for patients, it is critical to consider several domains pertaining to FNDs, including which field of discipline they should belong to, how to investigate and test, methods for rating outcome measures, and optimal courses of treatment. In the past, FNDs were primarily treated with psychiatric and psychological interventions. However, recent literature supports the inclusion of physical rehabilitation in the treatment of FNDs. Specifically, physical-based approaches tailored to FNDs have shown promising results. This review utilized a comprehensive search of multiple databases and inclusion criteria to identify relevant studies.

Suggested Citation

  • Ayelet N. Kelmanson & Leonid Kalichman & Iuly Treger, 2023. "Physical Rehabilitation of Motor Functional Neurological Disorders: A Narrative Review," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(10), pages 1-9, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:20:y:2023:i:10:p:5793-:d:1144738
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/10/5793/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/10/5793/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:20:y:2023:i:10:p:5793-:d:1144738. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.