Background: The present review aims to examine the way an exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation program affects the cardio metabolic risk profile at patients after Myocardial Infarction. Methods: PubMed/Medline and Scopus/Elsevier electronic databases were searched for studies with no publication date limitation. A search strategy was developed based on the intersection of 2 search themes: cardio logical rehabilitation program and cardio metabolic risk profile. Results: The articles that finally met all the inclusion criteria and were analyzed, after the screening of the title, the summary, and the whole text, were 4. A total of 126 patients after myocardial infarction who received exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation were examined at this review. Conclusion: The present review has demonstrated that exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation improves physical activity levels and the cardiometabolic profile at patients after myocardial infraction. All the existing literature showed improved results, such as reduction in body weight, increased HDL, improved blood pressure and exercise capacity. The program presented better results compared to classic exercise programs.

Background: The problem of pain in the lumbar region is a big part of physiotherapy, which aims not only to relieve patients from pain but also to restore them to their previous levels of functionality. Various interventions are used for this physiotherapy treatment, one of them is electrotherapy. This review aims to investigate the effectiveness of interferential current (IFC) in pain management in patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP). Methods: A search was conducted in electronic databases Google Scholar, PubMed, PEDro, Science Direct, and Cochrane Library in Greek and English language, combining keywords of the central axes of the issue such as "chronic low back pain" or "CLBP", "pain relief", "electrotherapy", "interferential current " or "IFC". Results: Ten RCT studies, which examine the effectiveness of IFC were included in this review. A total of 807 patients were measured. Most studies (n=6) compared IFC with placebo and one of those combined placebo IFC with an exercise program. Three studies compared the different types of IFC and one study IFC with usual caressing. Conclusion: The results of this review demonstrated that IFC showed a positive effect on reducing pain and improving the functioning of patients with CLBP. This approach presents to be a sufficient intervention method combined or not with other therapies.

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Background: The aim of the present review is to identify the relationship of an exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation program (exCR) and quality of life in patients after myocardial infarction. Design: The following databases were searched: Medline databases (via PubMed), and Scopus /Elsevier. Additional relevant research was also identified by direct search in scientific journals available online. The review included studies designed to primary evaluate the quality of life of an exCR program with no limitation about the publication date. Case reports and case series were excluded. Data were extracted by one reviewer and checked by a second reviewer. Results: The results are presented as per the PRISMA reporting guideline. The articles that finally met all the inclusion criteria and were analyzed, after the screening of the title, the summary and the whole text, were 6. A total of 694 patients who received exCR were examined in this review. Discussion: The present review indicates that an exCR program improves the quality of life for the patients with myocardial infarction and that quality of life improvements have a bidirectional relationship with increased physical activity and vocational status.

The biomedical approaches managing low back pain have led to an exponential increase in health-care costs, with a concurrent increase in disability and chronicity, due to the lack of person-centred management and the failure to adopt a biopsychosocial framework based on contemporary evidence. The need of potential treatments to take the complexity of low back pain into account and encompass a representative range of medical disciplines and disciplines allied to medicine, combined so as to offer maximum benefit to patients has emerged. Cognitive Functional therapy is a multidimensional, patient-centred intervention that directly explores and manages cognitive, psychological and social factors deemed to be barriers to recovery in chronic low back pain. This review presents a new treatment method of chronic low back pain, cognitive functional therapy and describe the principals of this approach. This approach could potentially help physiotherapists who seek to treat chronic low back pain in a more multidisciplinary way.