This article Wt!S acceptedfin publication November 3, 1997. I mplementing occupation-centered approaches in hand rehabilitation has been uncommon because this specialty has been dominated by biomedical approaches. However, some trends suggest that the practice of occupational therapy in hand rehabilitation is changing. Third-party payers are increasingly interested in final outcomes rather than...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to examine the causal relationships between the psychological acceptance process of athletic injury and athletic-rehabilitation behavior. [Subjects] One hundred forty-four athletes who had injury experiences participated in this study, and 133 (mean age = 20.21 years, SD = 1.07; mean weeks without playing sports = 7.97 weeks, SD = 11.26) of them provided ...

Psychosocial rehabilitation and in particular group dances allow the recovery of lost or compromised ability of patients with mental illness, and they facilitate their reintegration into the social context. The dance group has enabled users of the Day Centre of the Unit of Mental Health Torre del Greco ASL NA 3 south to achieve the objectives of rehabilitation such as: taking care of themselves...

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that triggers the occurrence of impaired function in human brain, behavior, cognitive, and emotional functions. This has become problem study health, which must be treated comprehensively by using empirical treatment combined with rehabilitation. Hopefully, increasing maximum level healing reducing recurrence rates can improve social quality life. Thus, this r...

OBJECTIVE To examine gender differences in clinical characteristics and physiological and psychosocial outcomes at entry into phase II cardiac rehabilitation. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS The study comprised 442 consecutive patients with cardiac diseases assessed at entry into a phase II cardiac rehabilitation programme. METHODS Clinical characteristics of the patients, such as ...

This study gives an overview of publications on factors that are associated with the outcome of voice rehabilitation after laryngectomy. A systematic literature review was conducted. Fifty-six manuscripts were analyzed regarding the parameters investigated, the number of participants included, the study designs used, the assessment instruments, and the results. A broad range of factors were con...

Cardiac rehabilitation can reduce mortality and morbidity for patients with many types of cardiac disease cost-effectively, yet is generally underutilized. Rehabilitation is helpful not only for patients who have had a myocardial infarction but also for those with stable angina or congestive heart failure or those who have undergone myocardial revascularization procedures, a heart transplant or...