background: cardiac rehabilitation has been recognized as one of the most effective strategies for managing cardiovascular indices as well as controlling the cardiovascular risk profile, in particular after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (cabg). however, the effect of this program on right ventricular function following cabg is unclear. the aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of ...

BACKGROUND Opportunities for interprofessional learning (IPL) and the promotion of interprofessional (IP) communication at the undergraduate level are important goals of health science faculties. IPL activities with shared curriculum validity to promote full student engagement can be challenging to identify. Case presentations that focus on patient-centred learning are one type of activity that...

8 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Texas Health 9 Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030 10 11 Motor Recovery Laboratory, 12 The Institute of Rehabilitation and Research (TIRR), Houston, TX 77030 13 14 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 15 Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611 16 17 Sensory Motor Performance Program 18 Rehabilitation I...

BACKGROUND Telerehabilitation has been proposed as an adjunct/alternative to standard center-based cardiac rehabilitation. Two recent systematic reviews showed non-inferiority and/or superiority of this remote approach for cardiac rehabilitation. However, these trials focused only on one core component of cardiac rehabilitation and telemonitoring, rather than implementing a more comprehensive a...

1 Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA 2 Department of Radiology, Logan College of Chiropractic, Chesterfield, MO 63017, USA 3 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Medford, MA 02155, USA 4 Department of Physical ...

PURPOSE The aim of this manuscript is to describe recent changes in rehabilitation medicine education in Croatia, and to highlight the effort that was made at University of Split School of Medicine, as well as at University Hospital Split in order to improve training in rehabilitation medicine. METHOD Critical collection and study of pertinent data on evolvement and present state of physical ...

1 Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Canada 2 Department of Exercise Sciences, Faculty of Physical Education and Health, Perceptual Motor Behaviour Laboratory, University of Toronto, Canada 3 Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada 4 Department of Rehabilitation for Movement Functions, Research Institute of Nation...

background: back pain is a common patients' complaint, and its etiology is important because of different potential treatment approaches (based on causes). for a better diagnosis, magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is widely used in clinical settings that may result in inappropriate requests. this study aims to evaluate the appropriateness of the lumbosacral mri requests in patients with back pai...