A home for paraplegic soldiers

Coming home: self-guided dialogues to facilitate soldiers' readjustment.

Challenges for Infants’ Home Care: a Qualitative Study

Background Home care is an acceptable strategy for the relationship between family and healthcare team and implementation of healthcare interventions, and infants’ nurses could play an important role in enhancing the capability of families and promoting child health in this area. This study examined challenges facing infants’ home care from nurses’ viewpoints in Iranian culture.Materials and Me...

Health Food for Soldiers

One of the biggest challenges the Indian army has been confronting is maintaining its troops at tough high altitude battle field of more than 18,000 feet. At such high altitude, troops are exposed to inclement weather, perilous altitude, difficult terrain and psychological problems arising out of being isolated from the main land miles away from their near and dear ones. Under such circumstance...

Eight-Channel Stimulator for Paraplegic Cycling

An eight-channel surface stimulation system, designed for paraplegic stepping was adapted for paraplegic cycling on a newly developed tricycle. The stimulation system consists of two four-channel modules an Inter Integrated Bus (I2C) to RS232 interface for direct stimulator control and data exchange and a standard laptop computer. A software package for personal computers with a comfortable gra...

Paraplegic para-articular calcification.

Abnormal ossification or calcification of the joints is seen in osteo-arthritis, Charcot's joints, and the Pellegrini-Stieda syndrome; less well-known is that seen in the soft tissues not involving the joint surface, consequent upon disease or injury of the nervous system. This condition has a variety of names: "para-osteo-arthropathy" (Dejerine, Ceillier, and Dejerine, 1919); "neurogenic ossif...