Li Zuo, Chia-Chen Chuang, Benjamin T. Hemmelgarn, and Thomas M. Best Radiologic Sciences and Respiratory Therapy Division, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio; and Division of Sports Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Sports Health & Performance Institute, The Ohio Stat...

This paper is based on a research carried out for evaluation of addict rehabilitation centers in Iran. The research has been conducted by application of survey method, questionnaire technique and interview with help seekers (addicts) in Qarchak Varamin Rehabilitation and De-addicion Center in south- eastern of Tehran. This study has been carried out in two stages of pre-treatment and rehabilita...

1Department of Medical IT Convergence Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi 730-701, Republic of Korea 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Yeosu 59626, Republic of Korea 3Department of Neurorehabilitation Engineering, University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August University Göttingen, 37075 Göttingen, Germany 4Sensory Motor Performance Pro...

An increasingly aging society creates the need for a reliable evaluation of postural stability, specially for rehabilitation. Estimation of a subject’s center of mass (CoM) is important for the assessment of unsupported, stable standing. A portable, in-home estimation of CoM can be used as a rehabilitation tool and could be achieved using a Microsoft’s Kinect. To validate this approach we compa...

conclusions this study revealed that the type of hearing loss, presence in the rehabilitation program, and the age of cochlear implantation can be major prognostic factors of the response to the treatment, then the country’s health policy makers and health planners must executively take into account the infants’ hearing screening program during the first 6 month of age. results the mean and the...

BACKGROUND Rehabilitation is a non-pharmacologic therapy that can restore health and reverse the patient's disability, but the efficacy of rehabilitation in critically ill patients is not well documented. METHODS In a prospective cohort study, we assessed whether the degree of change in functional status after comprehensive rehabilitation influenced clinical outcomes in 77 tracheotomized pati...

in this study we analyze the effects of environmental performance on the generation of firm value from dow jones sustainability index europe. we use a sample of 122 firms from different sectors, except financial one, which belong to this index for the years 2007 through 2009. the expected results, taking into account our hypotheses, should show a positive relationship between the generation of ...

Respiratory Rehabilitation and Respiratory Division, University Hospital; Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; and Respiratory Rehabilitation, Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium; and Rehabilitation Clinical Trials Center, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Cente...