Editorial Open Access
Volume 1 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/rehabilitation.1.002
Physiotherapy in Mental Health Facing the Covid-19 Pandemic
Norma Elisa Gálvez Olvera1,*
- 1President, Mexican Association of Physiotherapy in Mental Health, Mexico
Corresponding Author
Norma Elisa Gálvez Olvera, elisa.galvez@fisioterapiasm.org
Received Date: July 01, 2020
Accepted Date: July 08, 2020
Olvera NEG. Physiotherapy in Mental Health Facing the Covid-19 Pandemic. J Rehabil Res Pract 2020; 1(1):4-5.
Copyright: © 2020 Olvera NEG. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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