Erectile dysfunction (ED) following treatment for clinically localized prostate cancer, particularly radical prostatectomy (RP), is a major quality of life issue that remains unsatisfactorily addressed. With the introduction and use of cavernous nerve-sparing procedures over the past 25 years, many men recover erections postoperatively that enable sexual intercourse unlike in the prior surgical...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to examine the causal relationships between the psychological acceptance process of athletic injury and athletic-rehabilitation behavior. [Subjects] One hundred forty-four athletes who had injury experiences participated in this study, and 133 (mean age = 20.21 years, SD = 1.07; mean weeks without playing sports = 7.97 weeks, SD = 11.26) of them provided ...

Bruce Crosson, PhD; Anastasia Ford, BS; Keith M. McGregor, PhD; Marcus Meinzer, PhD; Sergey Cheshkov, PhD; Xiufeng Li, PhD; Delaina Walker-Batson, PhD; Richard W. Briggs, PhD Over the past 25 years, techniques to image brain structure and function have offered investigators in the cognitive neurosciences and related fields unprecedented opportunities to study how human brain systems work and ar...

The article substantiates the system of social and psychological rehabilitation children youth with special educational needs by means inclusive tourism, which has its features structure, functioning under appropriate technological support guaranting goal creating conditions for restoring psycho-emotional state status. in combination self-development, self-realization self-education. methodolog...

<p>“Structural UHPFRC” stands for Ultra?High?Performance Fibre Reinforced Cementitious Composite material which is complemented by reinforcing and prestressing steel to enhance the resistance durability of structural elements. Properties impermeable, tensile strain hardening UHPFRC are discussed in view applications. Two fundamental concepts concrete bridges have been developed research v...

CONTEXT Successful treatment of nonarthritic hip pain in young athletic individuals remains a challenge. A growing fund of clinical knowledge has paralleled technical innovations that have enabled hip preservation surgeons to address a multitude of structural variations of the proximal femur and acetabulum and concomitant intra-articular joint pathology. Often, a combination of open and arthros...

OBJECTIVE To identify barriers to Indigenous patients taking up a rural general practice-based cardiac rehabilitation program. We investigated the accessibility and appropriateness of the program and the role of Indigenous health workers (IHWs) in caring for Indigenous cardiac patients. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of knowledge and views relating to cardiac rehabilitation was undertaken w...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate surgical interventions and hearing rehabilitation in patients with chronic middle ear disease of only hearing ears. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Thirty-one patients with chronic middle ear disease of only hearing ears were enrolled in this retrospective study. Patients were classified into three groups according to the hearing level: gro...

This paper addresses some critical aspects of the Rehabilitation (Assistive) Technology market in Europe which characterise innovation and determine its type and direction. It is argued that innovation in this field is restricted because of (i) the limited and inefficient interaction between the identified seven market elements; (ii) the structural characteristics and general economic environme...

BACKGROUND Rehabilitation personnel need to be sensitive to the cultural aspects that constitute the environment of a disabled child's family life. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to gain insight on how families experience parenting of disabled children and how the families experience the support provided by the rehabilitation system in Malawi. METHOD An anthropological field study com...