Background. A Required Fourth-Year Medical Student Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) Clerkship was found to increase students' knowledge of PM&R; however the students' overall rotation evaluations were consistently lower than the other 8 required clerkships at the medical school. Objective. To describe the impact of a revised curriculum based upon Entrustable Professional Activities a...

Hanshin Expressway Public Corporation had been privatized in 2005 and has responsibility for maintaining service level of civil structures at sound condition and completely paying off its debt within 45 years after privatization. Therefore, it is an important issue to establish maintenance and rehabilitation plan considering the payment of the debt. This study addresses on Hanshin Expressway as...

Doctor Shoja-ad-Din Sheikholeslamzadeh (also known as Dr. Sheikh) (1931-2014) was an outstanding orthopedic surgeon. He is credited for the establishment of the Iranian Association of Rehabilitation, Shafa Yahyaian Hospital as an Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Center, the Social Welfare Organization, Iran’s emergency dispatch center (115) and many other major projects that led to the upgrading o...

In the past, rehabilitation research initiatives for low back pain (LBP) have targeted outcome enhancement through personalized treatment approaches, namely through classification systems (CS). Although the use of CS has enhanced outcomes, common management practices have not changed, the prevalence of LBP is still high, and only selected patients meet the CS profile, namely those with a nocice...

Erectile function (EF) recovery remains a prominent functional outcome underachievement of radical prostatectomy (RP), despite the success of anatomic "nerve-sparing" technique and its recent refinements in the modern surgical era. Delayed (for as much as a few years) or incomplete (partial and unusable) EF recovery commonly occurs in many men still today undergoing this surgery. "Penile rehabi...

BACKGROUND an organized, goal-defined and time-specified plan of management as envisaged by the integrated care pathway approach can achieve quality outcomes at lower cost. Integrated care pathways may have applications to stroke management because diagnosis is well defined, complex interdisciplinary inputs are required and there is good evidence on best practice. METHOD we reviewed medical, ...

Yun-Shan Yen1†, Shu-Han Yang1†, Chen-Liang Chou2,3, Daniel Chiung Jui Su1, Julie Chi Chow4 and Willy Chou1,5* 1Department of physical medicine and rehabilitation, Chi Mei medical center, Tainan, Taiwan 2Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Taipei Veteran General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan 3National Yang Ming University, school of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan 4Department of pediatric, Ch...

Author for Correspondence : Hidetaka Wakabayashi, MD Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Yokohama City University Medical Center, 4-57 Urafune-chou, Minami ward, Yokohama city, Japan 232-0024 E-mail: [email protected] Conflict of Interest and Funding Disclosure There is no conflict of interest. This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists(B)from the Japanese Minist...

Comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation is an important component in the clinical management of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Although supervised exercise training is considered the cornerstone of effective pulmonary rehabilitation, there are many other components that should be considered to manage the impairments and symptom burden, as well as the psychosocial and l...