BACKGROUND Hip fracture mainly occurs in older people. Strategies to improve mobility include gait retraining, various forms of exercise and muscle stimulation. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effects of different interventions for improving mobility after hip fracture surgery in adults. SEARCH STRATEGY We searched the Cochrane Bone, Joint and Muscle Trauma Group Specialised Register, the Cochra...

OBJECTIVE Advanced life support (ALS) knowledge and skills decrease in as little as three months, but only a few ALS providers actually attend retraining courses. We assess the effectiveness of a 3D serious game as a new tool for frequent ALS retraining. METHODS We developed a 3D serious game for scenario-based ALS retraining. The serious game, called EMSAVE, was designed to promote self-corr...

Connectionist modeling is applied to issues in cognitive rehabilitation, concerning the degree and speed of recovery through retraining, the extent of generalization to untreated items, and how treated items are selected to maximize this generalization. A network previously used to model impairments in mapping orthography to semantics is retrained after damage. The degree of relearning and gene...

This study was to investigate the effects of cervical stabilizing exercise and breathing retraining exercise to improve the respiratory function in elderly stroke patients. Experimental 1group performed cervical stabilizing exercise and respiratory breathing retraining exercise for 30minutes in addition to the conventional exercise. Experimental 2group performed the respiratory breathing retrai...

PURPOSE Dysfunctional breathing (DB) is associated with an abnormal breathing pattern, unexplained breathlessness and significant patient morbidity. Treatment involves breathing retraining through respiratory physiotherapy. Recently, manual therapy (MT) has also been used, but no evidence exists to validate its use. This study sought to investigate whether MT produces additional benefit when co...

Alcoholism is associated with impairment of information processing attention, memory and concept formation, which hamper the patients response to psychotherapy aimed at treating alcoholism. We improved cognitive functioning in abstinent alcoholics through cognitive retraining. Eight detoxified male alcoholics, comparable on age, education, marital status, medication and years of alcohol consump...

A novel approach is presented in this paper for improving the performance of neural network classifiers in image recognition, segmentation or coding applications, based on a retraining procedure at the user level. The procedure includes a maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation technique for optimally selecting a retraining data set from the image applied to the network during real life operation...