PURPOSE A key challenge for providers and commissioners of rehabilitation services is to find optimal balance between service costs and outcomes. This article presents a "real-life" application of the UK Rehabilitation Outcomes Collaborative (UKROC) dataset. We undertook a comparative cohort analysis of case-episode data (n = 173) from two specialist neurological rehabilitation units (A and B),...

In the modern era, rehabilitation after sports injury has become a domain for specialists, and its evolution has necessarily brought together the sports physiotherapist, the sports physician, and the orthopedic surgeon. The changing profile of sports related injury, as well as limited availability of facilities for rehabilitation in many areas of India, is a matter of concern. Elite sportsperso...

Cancer patients may suffer from severe distress that results in low mood, lack of energy and fatigue, reduces the effectiveness treatment. For a favorable outcome, they need rehabilitation to help them cope with psychological effects cancer. A psycho-oncologist is specialist who provides support care for cancer their relatives. The first studies demonstrating efficacy psychotherapy were conduct...

This paper presents a shoe-integrated sensor device which collects objective information concerning the gait quality in patients' physical rehabilitation. It involves four pressure sensors, two bending sensors, an ultrasonic sensor and a 9dof IMU, an Inertial Measurement Unit with three accelerometers, three gyroscopes and three magnetometers. The device includes a SDRAMPS with the aim of stori...