Stroke rehabilitation has been energized by the increasing confluence of supporting literature from animal studies, neuroimaging investigation of poststroke recovery, and an explosion of clinical rehabilitation trials. As basic scientists and clinical researchers converge, the exciting new technologies and more rigorous clinical methodologies used provide increasing support for some of the basi...

Mira Meeus Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy, University of Antwerp and Ghent University, Belgium; Pain in Motion International Research Group Email: [email protected] Jo Nijs Department of Physiotherapy, Physiology and Anatomy, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium Email: [email protected] Paul Van Wilgen Transcare Transdisciplinary Pain Management Center, The Netherlan...

Psychiatric rehabilitation contains value-laden concepts that may be unacceptable to certain cultures and many individuals. The concepts of independence and work are examined in a clash between mental health professionals in charge of national policies in psychiatric rehabilitation in Israel and a rehabilitation center for the severely mentally ill within the ultra-orthodox Jewish community. Th...

OBJECTIVE To identify risk factors that may predispose California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) to development of cutaneous poxvirus nodules during hospitalization in a rehabilitation center. DESIGN Retrospective case-control study. ANIMALS 90 California sea lions admitted to a rehabilitation center. PROCEDURE Hospital records of 275 stranded California sea lions admitted to the reha...

This article briefly relates the experience of a clinical coder working in the private healthcare sector in the Australian state of New South Wales and questions whether it is possible to work in this environment while adhering to the Clinical Coders' Creed. Private facilities in Australia that handle acute, psychiatric, respite and rehabilitation cases, rely mainly upon health insurance funds ...

Affiliations 1 Department of Palliative Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne 2 Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Cologne 3 Cognitive Neurosciences, Institute of Neurosciences and Medicine (INM-3), Research Center Jülich 4 Department of Palliative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine of RWTH Aachen University 5 Institute of Nursing Science and Practice, Paracelsus Medical University, ...

Approximately 45,000 individuals are hospitalized annually for burn treatment. Rehabilitation after hospitalization can offer a significant improvement in functional outcomes. Very little is known nationally about rehabilitation for burns, and practices may vary substantially depending on the region based on observed Medicare post-hospitalization spending amounts. This study was designed to mea...

Applying the ICF for the acute hospital and early post-acute rehabilitation facilities Gerold Stucki a; T Bedirhan Üstün b; John Melvin c a Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, WHO FIC Collaborating Center (DIMDI) and Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany b Assessment, Surveys and Terminology Unit, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland c Department of Rehabilita...

background: main suggested theories about patients’ adherence to treatment regimens recognize the importance of motivation in positive changes in behaviors. since cardiac diseases are chronic and common, cardiac rehabilitation as an effective prevention program is crucial in management of these diseases. there is always concern about the patients’ adherence to cardiac rehabilitation. the aim of...