OBJECTIVE To describe and evaluate the rehabilitation concept after posterior deltoid to triceps transfer in patients with tetraplegia. DESIGN Retrospective observational study. SETTING Rehabilitation units. PARTICIPANTS Patients with tetraplegia who had posterior deltoid to triceps tendon transfer and had muscle strength measurements 1 year postsurgery from 2009 to 2013 (N=44). INTERVE...

background: noise is defined as unwanted or meaningless sound that apart from auditory adverse health effects may distract attention from cues that are important for task performance. human performance is influenced by many job-related factors and workplace conditions including noise level. objective: to study the effect of noise on human performance. methods: the participants included 40 healt...

OBJECTIVE To compare individual, group and combined intervention formats for improving goal attainment and psychosocial function following acquired brain injury. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial, waiting list controls. PARTICIPANTS Thirty-five participants with a mean time of 5.29 years (standard deviation = 3.9) since acquired brain injury were randomly allocated into 6 groups involving ...

BACKGROUND Rheumatic diseases commonly affect joints and other structures in the hand. Surgery is a traditional way to treat hand problems in inflammatory rheumatic diseases with the purposes of pain relief, restore function and prevent progression. There are numerous measures to choose from, and a combination of outcome measures is recommended. This study evaluated if instruments commonly used...

OBJECTIVES To explore the ability of six outcome measures to capture clinically important changes in patients with rheumatic diseases undergoing hand surgery and to study predictors of changes in activity performance in different patient and surgery strata. METHODS A total of 172 patients (median age 59 years, disease duration 18 years) were stratified into subgroups: diagnosis, age, general ...

The research study reports the results of our investigation on causes of occupational stress, coping strategies adopted and their relationship with the teachers’ performance in CBSE affiliated school teachers in and around Hyderabad. A survey of 300 CBSE affiliated school teachers consisting of 200 women and 100 men from in and around Hyderabad carried out to assess the eight independent stress...

This study systematically reviewed the validity, reliability, sensitivity to change, and clinical utility of measurements of participation for children with cerebral palsy. Sixteen measures were identified and seven met the inclusion criteria of having 30% content measuring participation, for use with children aged 5 to 13 years with physical disability, and were condition specific. The Childre...

BACKGROUND Quality-of-work-life (QWL) includes broad aspects of the work environment that affect employee learning and health. Canadian health care organizations (HCOs) are being encouraged to monitor QWL, expanding existing occupational health surveillance capacities. AIM To investigate the understanding, collection, diffusion and use of QWL indicators in Canadian HCOs. METHODS We obtained...