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European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine 2015 December;51(6):850-2

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language: English

Physical therapy provision in multiple sclerosis across Europe: a regional lottery?

Rasova K. ¹, Martinkova P. ², Pavlikoma M. ³, Cattaneo D. ⁴, Jonsdottir J. ⁴, Henze T. ⁵, Baert I. ⁶, Van Asch P. ⁷, Santovo C. ⁸, Smedal T. ^{9, 10}, Beiske A. G. ¹¹, Stachowiak M. ¹², Kovalewski M. ¹², Nedeljkovic U. ¹³, Bakalidou D. ¹⁴, Alves-Guerreiro J. ¹⁵, Nilsagård Y. ¹⁶, Dimitrova E. N. ¹⁷, Habek M. ¹⁸, Armutlu K. ¹⁹, Donzé C. ^{20, 21}, Ross E. ²², Ilie A. M. ²³, Martić A. ²⁴ ✉

¹ Third Medical Faculty Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic; ² Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic; ³ Private practitioner; ⁴ Don Gnocchi Foundation, Larice Lab, Milan, Italy; ⁵ PASSAUER WOLF Reha-Zentrum Nittenau, Rehabilitationsklinikfür Neurologie-Geriatrie-Urologie, Nittenau, Germany; ⁶ Hasselt University, Campus Diepenbeek, REVAL Rehabilitation Research Institute (BIOMED), Diepenbeek, Belgium; ⁷ Fit Up, Fitness and Physiotherapy Center, Kontich, Belgium; ⁸ CEMCat, Neurorehabilitation Unit, Passeig de la Valld’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain; ⁹ Department of Neurology, Norwegian Multiple Sclerosis Competence Centre, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway; ¹⁰ Department of Physiotherapy, Norwegian Multiple Sclerosis Competence Centre, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway; ¹¹ MS-SenteretHakadal AS, Hakadal, Norway; ¹² MS Rehabilitation Centre, Borne Sulinowo, Poland; ¹³ Clinic for physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia; ¹⁴ Department of Physical Therapy of Technological, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Athens, Greece; ¹⁵ Health Research Unit, School of Health Sciences, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Leiria, Portugal; ¹⁶ Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University Region, Örebro, Sweden; ¹⁷ Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, “Ss Cyril and Methodius” University, Skopje, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; ¹⁸ Department of Neurology, Referral Center for Demyelinating Diseases of the Central Nervous System University, Zagreb School of Medicine, University Hospital Center Kispaticeva, Zagreb, Croatia; ¹⁹ Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health Science, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey; ²⁰ Department of physical Medicine and Rehabilitation hospital Saint Philibert, GroupeHospitalier de l’institut Catholique de Lille, Lille, France 21 Faculté Libre de Médecine, Univ Nord de France, Lille, France; ²² St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; ²³ Elias University Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania; ²⁴ Neurological Rehabilitation Unit, Department of Neurology, University Medical Center of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia