COPD reconditioning: Individualized rehabilitation

Pulmonary Rehabilitation for COPD

Pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD.

Introduction W is the difference in the lungs of an athlete and a clerk. Lungs of both of them are normal. Athlete has trained his lungs and body to perform rigorous exercise and able to run 20 kilometre (km) in one stretch while the clerk working in an office is hardly able run for 2 km. Even in normal lungs training and exercise result in a ten fold improvement in performance. Similarly a pat...

MOPASS – Mobile Robotic System for Individualized Gait Rehabilitation

This paper presents the current progress behind the development of the mobile robot based gait rehabilitation system MOPASS. Combining an actuated orthosis with a mobile platform, the developed system provides required mobility of the patient and enables the gait training under realistic conditions. Besides mobility, the system offers doctors and therapists an efficient specification of therapy...

Effective geriatric rehabilitation is not non-individualized group health education.

The article by Kehusmaa et al. (1), entitled " Economic evaluation of a geriatric rehabilitation programme: a randomized controlled trial " , explores an important area of health services research. As more effective healthcare interventions become available, comparative effectiveness research and cost-benefit analyses will be vital in determining healthcare funding strategies. Unfortunately, Ke...

An individualized approach to outcome measurement in geriatric rehabilitation.

BACKGROUND The heterogeneity of health problems experienced by frail elderly patients makes it difficult to use a single standard measure to evaluate multiple outcomes of geriatric rehabilitation. Commonly, several measures are used, but an alternative is to use an individualized measure such as Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS). This study investigated the reliability, validity, and responsiveness...