Rehabilitation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Why it Matters

Marco Orsini*; Mauricio Sant'Anna Junior; Acary Bulle de Oliveira; Adriana Leico Oda; Cristina Salvioni; JacquelineFernandes do Nascimento; Antônio Marcos da Silva Catharino; Nicolle dos Santos Moraes Nunes; Valéria Camargo Silveira; Carlos Eduardo Cardoso; Marcos RG de Freitas

Since the initial description of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis by Jean Martin Charcot, theories and shortcuts in the pathophysiological framework have signaled us to a mechanism of neuronal apoptosis that permeates the depletion of upper and lower motor neurons [1]. Previously considered a progressive, degenerative and inexorable disease of the neurons of the anterior tip and of the pyramidal bundle in varying degrees, a “superficiality” in this title is already notorious...