BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The organization of poststroke care will be a major challenge in coming years. We aimed to assess hospital disposition after stroke and its associated factors in clinical practice. METHODS All cases of stroke from 2006 to 2010 were identified from the population-based Stroke Registry of Dijon, France. Demographic features, risk factors, and prestroke treatments were rec...

Pulmonary rehabilitation results in substantial and clinically meaningful improvements in dyspnea, exercise capacity and quality of life for patients with chronic respiratory diseases such as COPD [1]. There is also evidence indicating that pulmonary rehabilitation reduces subsequent health care utilization [2] and – perhaps – mortality, if the intervention is given in the post-exacerbation per...

A PC-based orthopedic rehabilitation system was developed for use at home, while allowing for remote monitoring from the clinic. The home rehabilitation station has a Pentium II PC with graphics accelerator, Polhemus tracker, and a novel Multipurpose Haptic Control Interface with its own Pentium board. This interface is used to sample patient's hand positions and to provide resistive forces usi...

The Health and Welfare Information Association has compiled a report of the future trend and development of the home care and rehabilitation equipment industry by summing up the result of questionnaires of home care equipment users, which was conducted from September, 2007 to May,2008, the trend of performance of exhibitors participated in International Home Care and Rehabilitation Exhibition a...

BACKGROUND With high morbidity, mortality and disability rate, brain infarction brings a huge economic and health burden to the whole society in China. Although some previous studies suggested that telerehabilitation may facilitate rehabilitation for stroke survivors at home, the evidence is insufficient for clinical application; additionally, as yet no trial evaluates efficacy of telerehabilit...

BACKGROUND The high incidence of falls associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) increases the risk of injuries and immobility and compromises quality of life. Although falls education and strengthening programs have shown some benefit in healthy older people, the ability of physical therapy interventions in home settings to reduce falls and improve mobility in people with Parkinson's has not be...

The efficacy of hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) in the domains of mortality, morbidity, quality of life, health behavior change, risk reduction, and psychosocial well-being has been well established. 1-3 However, because of financial constraints, physician referral practices, geographic and transportation barriers, and patient preferences, access to CR services is suboptima1.4-8 Card...

Background: Community rehabilitation services for older adults aim to address factors that lead to physical decline and falls and return people to their normal activities in the community. While community rehabilitation has been proven effective in reducing falls in the elderly, previous studies have not specified whether delivering services at home or in a centre-based format is the more appro...

PURPOSE The pulmonary rehabilitation program has become a cornerstone in the management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Programs based in hospital and treatment facilities, however, are inconvenient and underutilized. A home-based program is a promising alternative, but studies of its effectiveness have yielded inconsistent results. The purpose of this study is to...

BACKGROUND A variety of different types of secondary prevention programs for coronary heart disease (CHD) exist. Home-based programs have become more common and may be more accessible or preferable to some patients. This review compared the benefits and costs of home-based programs with usual care and cardiac rehabilitation. METHODS A meta-analysis following a systematic search of 19 database...