Rehabilitation plays a major role to maximize outcome and prevent complications following musculoskeletal trauma its interventions. It is reported in several studies that mortality risk patients not receiving rehabilitation was higher compared with who received one. The key principles include adequate pain management, anti-infection measures, early ambulation physical therapy, establishing prop...

Numerous scientific evidences show that people with a mental disorder suffer not only from the itself, but also, and perhaps above all, for social relational consequences produces which manifest themselves in form of stigma. The improvement health, view to Recovery, is fact based on possibility taking advantage socio-professional contexts users operators have opportunity live meaningful relatio...

PURPOSE To evaluate the psychometric properties of the UK FIM + FAM. METHODS (a) A systematic literature review integrating the evidence for psychometric qualities of both the original and UK versions, and (b) exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of admission/discharge data from an inpatient general neuro-rehabilitation cohort using parametric and non-parametric techniques. A prospect...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relations between demographic factors, specific psychosocial factors, and cardiac rehabilitation attendance. DESIGN Cohort, repeated measures design. SETTING A large tertiary care centre in western Canada PATIENTS 304 consecutive consenting patients discharged following acute myocardial infarction and/or coronary artery bypass graft surgery. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE...

Organized torture practiced by oppressive regimes against political enemies constitutes a serious worldwide epidemic. According to Amnesty International, 150 out of 215 countries practiced human rights abuses in 2005. The United Nations defines torture as ‘‘any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purpose as obtaining...

For the past two years we have engaged in a research project devoted to the problems of rehabilitation among chronically disabled rheumatoid arthritis patients. To be admitted to the study, patients had to be severely disabled, and their disease process had to be still in an active phase. Our objective was to determine the feasibility of a combined programme of hormone therapy and physical medi...