We read with great interest the study on pulmonary rehabilitation by SPRUIT et al. [1] and the accompanying editorial by ROCHESTER et al. [2]. From the starting point of a global view on pulmonary rehabilitation programmes and organisation, the study reports the modalities by which pulmonary rehabilitation is delivered worldwide, showing substantial differences between North America and Europe....

Evidence is lacking about the most effective interventions for community reintegration to 8 meet the wellness needs for people living with spinal cord injuries (SCI). One among various 9 reasons for the limited literature on effective interventions for community reintegration for people 10 with SCI is the heterogeneity that represent this population. Heterogeneity manifested by 11 individuals’ ...

1Research Center for Children with Special Health Care Needs, Franciscan Hospital for Children, Brighton, MA, USA 2Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA 3Department of Pediatrics, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA 4Queensland Cerebral Palsy and Rehabilitation Research Centre, The Unive...

Efforts to address all disabilities are still very limited in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR). Nevertheless, certain categories of disability have achieved a higher level of institution-centred attention. This attention is limited to the field of medical rehabilitation (amputees and movement-impaired persons). Further assistance such as education, vocational training and income gener...

BACKGROUND Cerebral palsy (CP) describes a group of disorders regarding the development of movement and posture, which causes limitations in activity. In fact, it is attributed to non-progressive disturbances that occur during brain development in fetus or infant. CP disorders may accompany by speech, auditory, visual abnormality, seizure, learning disorder, mental retardation and etc. Due to t...

As the economics of health care increasingly dictate the parameters of patient care delivery, the role of rehabilitation has taken on new meaning with regard to positive patient outcomes. This is particularly true for the head and neck cancer patient coping with devastating physical and functional changes. With treatment advances leading to increased survival, health-care providers must therefo...

Modern medicinal therapy in today’s medical world aims for establishing a better quality of life in patients in different stages of disorders. It is a well known fact that anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction needs to be combined with post-treatment rehabilitation programme in order for patients to return to their pre-injury activity levels and this rehabilitation is almost as import...

Rehabilitation Medicine or Physiatry (as is known in North America) is the medical specialty dealing with “restoration of function in people affected by physical disabilities”. The disease categories with which the specialty is mainly concerned are neurological conditions like stroke and brain injury, spinal injury, musculoskeletal disorders and limb amputation. The rehabilitation paradigm diff...