Magnetic resonance imaging as a tool for objectification of the effect of physiotherapy by people with multiple sclerosis

Abstract

For people with multiple sclerosis, the physiotherapy has positively good effect on reducing the majority of symptoms. It slows a progression of the disease and thereby prevents patients from social and work disabilities and therefore it improves quality of life.

The clinical tests are mainly used to prove these benefits of physiotherapy but they may not be considered as enough "evidence based". The mechanisms of achieving the benefits to the patients (especially regard to neuroplasticity) are also not well known yet.

This thesis shows a potential of magnetic resonance imaging for demonstrating effects of physiotherapy in multiple sclerosis patients as well as its potential for better understanding of reparations processes in the brain tissue.