Introduction. The present study was intended to evaluate the effects of a rehabilitative training, the Cognitive Pragmatic Treatment (CPT), aimed at improving communicative-pragmatic abilities and the related cognitive components, on the cerebral modifications of a single case patient diagnosed with schizophrenia. Methods. The patient underwent two functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) s...

OBJECTIVES This case-control study aimed to investigate the predictors of return to work (RTW) following work-related major forearm, wrist or hand injury at the preparation stage of return to work. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 80 clients were recruited and divided into 2 groups depending on their readiness of RTW. The groups were compared with each other with regard to their demographics, ...

Objectives: Attention is one of the cognitive functions that can be enhanced through cognitive rehabilitation. Play therapy is a treatment option for cognitive impairments. The present research aimed to investigate the use of rehabilitation based on play therapy to increase the attention of medical students. Methods: The present research is a randomized controlled clinical trial. In 2022, the ...

Background:Addiction is regarded as one of the most important social issues influencing all aspects of people’s lives including personal, social, physical, and mental aspects. Given the increasing rate of the disease and its associated irreparable damages to a patient’s life and the community, this disease and its methods of preventing and treating should especially be taken into consideration....

Purpose: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is believed to be an important risk factor for falling. Total knee replacement (TKR) is a commonly used choice when other methods are not satisfactory. Proprioception impairment, risk of falling and balance disorder are within the main complications of this method. While multiple protocols have been suggested for TKR, efficacy of early isotonic ...

this paper is a short review on the jann and content of speech and language rehabilitation services and the trend of their institutionalization in iran. a summary of formal education in speech and language therapy in iran as originated by establishing a 4 year bs rehabilitation program in the college of rehabilitation sciences in tehran in 1974 is given. since then, speech and language rehabili...

Human beings have an amazing capacity to learn new skills and adapt to new environments. However, several obstacles remain to be overcome in designing paradigms to broadly improve quality of life. Arguably, the most notable impediment to this goal is that learning tends to be quite specific to the trained regimen and does not transfer to even qualitatively similar tasks. This severely limits th...