Physical Exercise in Chronic Diseases: Assessment, Implementation and Effectiveness
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Chronic Care".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 68
Special Issue Editor
Interests: physical exercise; chronic pain; quality of life; physical therapy
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Dear Colleagues,
The treatment of chronic diseases is based on an accurate diagnosis, the administration of specific pharmacological treatments, and a healthy lifestyle. Sedentary lifestyles are one of the main red flags when implementing active programmes where the patient must be at the centre of the treatment and the key to success.
The literature shows that therapeutic exercise programmes show a high degree of efficacy in functional improvement and recovery in patients with acute diseases and post-surgical processes. However, in chronic diseases, especially the more minor ones, the scientific evidence for therapeutic exercise is not as remarkable. Knowing the prevalence and incidence of physical activity in these patients, the predictive models of activity, and the preferences of these patients when developing specific programmes are areas of interest that have yet to be developed in chronic diseases. Similarly, identifying the efficacy of therapeutic exercise programmes in patients with chronic diseases will allow us to implement them clinically and thus improve the treatment of these patients.
We are pleased to invite you to provide clinicians and researchers with evidence-based recommendations on the safety and efficacy of therapeutic exercise protocols in the management of patients with chronic diseases. Also of interest is the identification of outcome measures and predictive models of therapeutic exercise and physical activity that allow us to implement them in rehabilitative approaches for these patients. Thus, review articles describing the current state of these therapeutic techniques and clinical studies assessing the efficacy of exercise are welcome, providing evidence for their clinical implementation in patients with chronic diseases.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of the efficacy of therapeutic exercise in the treatment of chronic diseases.
- Studies on the assessment and prognosis of therapeutic exercise in patients with chronic diseases.
- Experimental studies measuring the efficacy of therapeutic exercise in patients with chronic diseases.
- Comparative and psychometric studies of different tools for the assessment of activity and therapeutic exercise in chronic diseases.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Rubén Cuesta-Barriuso
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- physical exercise
- chronic diseases
- diagnostic
- prevention
- rehabilitation
- effectiveness
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