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Hi Luis,
Absolutely – you can take different sections of the same piece, or even perhaps from the same movement. It might help, especially as you become more comfortable with the notes, to work on contrasting sections that require different types of motor skills (like soft vs. loud, fast vs. slow, different articulation demands, etc.), so there’s an extra bit of challenge involved in having to switch back and forth between dissimilar things.
Also, in terms of injury prevention, it might also be useful to think of varying the difficulty or physical demands of the things you rotate between, so you’re not only working on the most physically demanding passages, but giving yourself a physical break too with the chunks of music you choose to rotate between.