Improving Older Trauma Patients' Outcomes Through Targeted Occupational Therapy and Functional Conditioning

An older population: meeting major needs through occupational therapy.

The United States has belatedly recognzzed the major demographic changes that have occurred over recent decades. Even more dramatic changes are anticipated between now and the year 2000, and beyond. While the 1961 and 1971 White House Conferences on Aging focused on the growing numbers of older adults, the rapid Increase in a lder A mericans up to the present and projected for the future is cen...

Improving Traumatic Brain Injury Outcomes through Gene Therapy and Exercise

1 Targeted Neuroplasticity Induced through Operant Conditioning

An operant-conditioning protocol that bases reward on the electromyographic response produced by a specific CNS pathway can change that pathway. For example, in both animals and people, an operant-conditioning protocol can increase or decrease the spinal stretch reflex or its electrical analog, the H-reflex. Reflex change is associated with plasticity in the pathway of the reflex as well as els...

Improving outcomes in older women?

A n extensive body of research has reported that women experience worse outcomes compared with men when the full spectrum of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) are included (1–4). Compared with men, women are more likely to experience major bleeding (1,2) and vascular access complications (2) post-percutaneous coronary intervention, as well as a higher rate of major adverse cardiovascular events (1...

the effect of functional/notional approach on the proficiency level of efl learners and its evaluation through functional test

in fact, this study focused on the following questions: 1. is there any difference between the effect of functional/notional approach and the structural approaches to language teaching on the proficiency test of efl learners? 2. can a rather innovative language test referred to as "functional test" ge devised so so to measure the proficiency test of efl learners, and thus be as much reliable an...