Department of Pediatrics, National Hospital Organization Kagoshima Medical Center, Kagoshima; Department of the Cardiovascular System, Fukuoka Children’s Hospital and Medical Center for Infectious Diseases, Fukuoka; Department of Pediatrics, Niigata City General Hospital, Niigata; Department of Rehabilitation, Aichi Saiseikai Rehabilitation Hospital, Nagoya; Departments of Child Health and Epid...

Predictive control of ankle stiffness at heel contact is a key element of 1 locomotor adaptation during split-belt treadmill walking in humans 2 3 Tetsuya Ogawa, Noritaka Kawashima, Toru Ogata, Kimitaka Nakazawa 4 Department of Rehabilitation for the Movement Functions, Research Institute, National 5 Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, 4-1, Namiki, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan 6 ...

BACKGROUND Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a great economical and logistic problem in the health care system which reduces the quality of life and productivity of the patient. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the outcome of patients after severe brain trauma according to the course of their rehabilitation. METHODS Patients with TBI were divided into three groups. Group A; after...

BACKGROUND The impact of outcome measure as early variables on rehabilitation length of stay (LOS) in traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients remains poorly investigated. AIM To investigate: 1) the association between LOS and motor and functional outcomes; 2) the predictive factors of LOS in TBI patients admitted to a rehabilitation center. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Inpatient TBI ...

The paper considers the need to create an innovative health and rehabilitation center due long-term military aggression of russia. latter leads fact that many civilians receive physical psychological injuries be treated. At first stage rehabilitation, these problems are solved by special medical facilities, while restoration both condition should carried out outside hospitals. One facilities co...

OBJECTIVE We examined use of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening exam modalities among county health centers and private physician offices, where both were located in the same geographic area. METHODS We surveyed 500 county health center registrants and 570 private physician patients, aged 52-75 years. We administered telephone surveys during 2004 to examine relationships among sociodemographic...

A matrix growth model is estimated on the basis of growth data (growth period 5 years) of 14 measurement plots of uneven-aged white pine from southern Ontario. The impact of three economic factors specific to the private forests on the sustainable management of private woodlots is evaluated and discussed, and the trade-off between environmental and economic values is examined. These three econo...