Diaphragmatic paresis is a rare but recognized complication of atrial fibrillation ablation.A 59-year-old woman experiencing dyspnea in supine position and for minimal effort was admitted in a cardiac rehabilitation center. One month before, she was referred to a cardiac center to ablation of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. After the procedure, the patient developed respiratory failure attribut...

Affiliations: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Physical Education and Sports Science; 1st Department of Respiratory Medicine, Pulmonary Rehabilitation Unit; 1st Department of Critical Care Medicine, Pulmonary Rehabilitation Centre, Athens, Greece. Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, USA. Dept of R...

The five acts of jihadist violence between 2012–2020, particularly the 2015 Paris attacks, combined with an increasingly polarized political discourse in France, have pushed extremism to center government policy and public opinion. Approaches last decade comprised two characteristics: claims amalgamating Islam Muslim religious practice—especially its stricter forms—with extremist violence, alon...

Accepted: July 15, 2016 Study carried out at Multiprofessional Residency Program in Hearing Health, Audiological Research Center – ARC, Cochlear Implant Section, Hospital of Rehabilitation of Craniofacial Anomalies – HRAC, Universidade de São Paulo – USP Bauru (SP), Brazil. 1 Hospital of Rehabilitation of Craniofacial Anomalies – HRAC, Universidade de São Paulo – USP Bauru (SP), Brazil. 2 Cente...

1Diagnostic Imaging Department, SARAH Hospital-Brasilia Center, SARAH Network of Rehabilitation Hospitals, Brasília DF, Brazil; 2Surgical Pathology Laboratory, SARAH Hospital-Brasilia Center, SARAH Network of Rehabilitation Hospitals, Brasília DF, Brazil. Correspondence: Paulo Cesar Rocha Oliveira; Diagnostic Imaging Department, Hospital SARAH-Brasília, SARAH Network of Rehabilitation Hospitals...

BACKGROUND Our previous work showed that providing additional rehabilitation on a Saturday was cost effective in the short term from the perspective of the health service provider. This study aimed to evaluate if providing additional rehabilitation on a Saturday was cost effective at 12 months, from a health system perspective inclusive of private costs. METHODS Cost effectiveness analyses al...

As a result of the psychiatric hospital closure programme the use of private sector facilities for those needing longer-term care and support has increased. However, local rehabilitation services may be a better solution than out of area treatment.

Following the acceptance of South Africa’s first democratic constitution and subsequent Disability Equity legislation, publications in South African occupational therapy literature, although very limited, indicate that occupational therapists are ideally placed and uniquely skilled to deal with the implementation of legislation and to be key role players in the work place by facilitating employ...

extractthis study have been done in the american university of beirut medical center for recognizing the skills of nurses in counseling for facilitating mental and physical rehabilitation of war disabled. this center was admitted veterans from ten years ago. this study showed important role of nurses in rehabilitation persons who were disabled from war conflict, terrible events related to war, ...

In this paper, a motion-sensing based management system for smart context-awareness rehabilitation healthcare including various balance exercise is built by the integration of the physiological sensing and feedback coaching. The home-end system can not only provide the exercise coaching instruction, the balance stability analysis, and the motion similarity analysis in real-time, but also simult...