In this theoretical paper, we argue that the adoption of the social model to aphasia rehabilitation within group settings changes the metaphorical location of the boundaries between clinicians and clients. Despite a growing literature on group work for aphasia and social model applications for people with chronic aphasia, there has been almost no attention paid to how professional boundaries ar...

Motor function changes in the unaffected hand of stroke patients with hemiplegia. These changes are often ignored by clinicians owing to the extent of motor disability of the affected hand. Finger tapping frequency and Lind-mark hand function score showed that the motor function of unaffected hands in stroke patients was poorer than that of a healthy control hand. After 2 weeks of rehabilitatio...

Parkinson's Disease (PD) is characterized by motor and cognitive decay, coupled to an alteration of brain oscillatory patterns. In this study a novel neuro-rehabilitation tool, based on the application of motor imagery into a Brain Computer Interface system, is presented with some preliminary data. Three patients were evaluated (with motor, neuropsychological and EEG testing) before and after a...

The principles of physical rehabilitation therapy can be applied to the horse to provide a reduction in discomfort and dysfunction associated with the various forms of joint disease. Physical agents,such as ice, heat, electricity, sound, light, magnetic fields, compression, and movement, can be used by the rehabilitation therapist to attempt to control pain, reduce swelling, and restore optimal...

Despite the remarkable progress of medicine and science, we still suffer from incurable diseases. The development of society has resulted in new diseases that did not exist in the past. The economic imbalance between countries or regions is a factor for new social conflicts and related diseases. Excessive nutrition and lack of exercise have led to the expansion of metabolic diseases in modern h...

background: many patients with parkinson diseases are faced with constant attention disorders and evaluation of these disorders in these patients is important. methods : a cross-sectional study was conducted on 80 patients with parkinson disease and 80 healthy iranian people aged 40 to 70. all participants in the two groups of healthy and patients were examined by neurologists and psychiatrists...

The Loess Plateau is well known for its deep loess deposits and serious soil erosion. This paper analyses the characteristic of soil erosion on the Plateau and reviews the small watershed management and ecosystem rehabilitation practice and development in the future. In the last 30 years, the government has paid great attention on the integrated small watershed management and restoration of the...

the situation of people with disabilities in the developing countries should be a matter of great concern. there are today close to 250 million severely and moderately disabled persons in these countries; the annual increase is 10 million. most of them are poor, dependent neglected, excluded from education, training and jobs; they die early and have no power while alive. between 15 and 20% of a...