Looking back at 30 years of rehabilitation medicine.From physical medicine to rehabilitation medicine.

Physical medicine and rehabilitation.

An important priority has been the development of quantitative methods for measuring the disability status of patients undergoing rehabilitation. Intramuscular injection of botulinum toxin is an effective new therapy for spasticity due to a number of causes.

of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Forty years history of physical medicine and rehabilitation in Iran.

J Rehabil Med 43 © 2011 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/16501977-0785 Journal Compilation © 2011 Foundation of Rehabilitation Information. ISSN 1650-1977 While physical modalities and therapeutic exercise have been used traditionally in Persian medicine, some rehabilitation issues have also been discussed, in particular, in The Canon of Medicine by Avicenna (980–1037). For example, the recommendation...

American Journal Of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Izawa KP, Watanabe S, Omiya K, Hirano Y, Oka K, Osada N, Iijima S: Effect of the self-monitoring approach on exercise maintenance during cardiac rehabilitation: A randomized, controlled trial. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 2005;84:313–321. Objective: To evaluate the effect of the self-monitoring approach (SMA) on self-efficacy for physical activity (SEPA), exercise maintenance, and objective physical a...

Global Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

The system developed by Särelä et al. (2003) [6] consists mainly in a wearable device and a base station, installed at the user ́s home, to monitor the user ́s movements. The wearable device collects activity data and sends it to the base station, which can synchronize the data with a dedicated server through a wired public telephone line or send alert messages to a caregiver. The target populati...