Rethinking Our Approach to Mistakes

Rethinking our approach to blood-borne viruses

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Rethinking our approach to physical activity.

Activity, Activity, Activity: Rethinking our Physiotherapy Approach to Cerebral Palsy

This presentation will provide a scientific overview of current and perhaps future therapeutic (re)habilitation strategies for individuals with cerebral palsy (CP). The entire field of neurorehabilitation is experiencing tremendous change and excitement that is spilling over into pediatric rehabilitation. Evidence has been accumulating in recent years that strongly supports the role of therapis...

What have we learnt from our mistakes?

The authors discuss the general steps involved in good decision making and use those steps to organize results from behavioral decision research, illustrating some of the challenges in making important choices. Framing effects, self serving biases, and context effects are a few of the errors and biases presented. The authors also discuss a variety of techniques for reducing biases and errors. T...

Activity, activity, activity: rethinking our physical therapy approach to cerebral palsy.

This perspective outlines the theoretical basis for the presentation with the same name as the second part of this title, which was given at the III STEP conference in July 2005. It elaborates on the take-home message from that talk, which was to promote activity in children and adults with cerebral palsy and other central nervous system disorders. The author proposes that the paradigm for phys...