Active task practice drives recovery of motor function after stroke. Lasting neuroplastic changes occur in the cortex with repetitive practice of active, meaningful movements. Opportunities to engage in active task practice in rehabilitation hospitals after stroke may be limited. Australia’s National Stroke Foundation Clinical Guidelines recommend that people with stroke engage in ≥1 hour/d of ...

INTRODUCTION Taking into consideration the rise in ischemic heart disease and the increasing number of performed cardiac surgery procedures, attempts have been made to prepare an optimal rehabilitation program enabling the effective improvement of patient condition in the shortest possible time-frame that would be of most benefit for the patients [1, 2]. AIM OF THE STUDY Aim of the study was ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate changes in walking activity and endurance after interdisciplinary rehabilitation in people with Parkinson disease (PD). DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING Clinic, home, and community. PARTICIPANTS Mild to moderate PD (Hoehn and Yahr stage 2-3). INTERVENTIONS Three experimental conditions lasting 6 weeks in duration: (1) no active rehabilitation; (2) 3.0...

abstract facial defects not only impact on the function and quality of life but also affect the psychological well-being and social behavior of patients. a nasal prosthesis can re-establish the esthetics and anatomical contour in patients with mid-facial defects, often more effectively than surgical reconstruction. for successful results, many factors such as retention, texture, color match and...

Experimental malnutrition models have been useful to study the effects of malnutrition at early ages. Substantial evidence exists that malnutrition in critical stages of development could result in chromosomal damages. The effect of nutritional rehabilitation with soymilk as a complement of a restricted diet, on plasma and muscle proteins, chromosomal integrity, and unspecific and mucosa immune...

OBJECTIVE Delirium superimposed on dementia (DSD) is common in many settings. Nonetheless, little is known about the association between DSD and clinical outcomes. The study aim was to evaluate the association between DSD and related adverse outcomes at discharge from rehabilitation and at 1-year follow-up in older inpatients undergoing rehabilitation. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTI...

We show how multinomial logistic models with correlated responses can be estimated within SAS software. To achieve this, random effects and marginal models are introduced and the respective SAS code is given. An example data set on physicians' recommendations and preferences in traumatic brain injury rehabilitation is used for illustration. The main motivation for this work are two recent paper...

Heavy economic losses and human casualties caused by destructive earthquakes around the world clearly show the need for a systematic approach for large scale damage detection of various types of existing structures. That could provide the proper means for the decision makers for any rehabilitation plans. The aim of this study is to present an innovative method for investigating the seismic vuln...

regarding the increasing prevalence of cardiovascular disease (cvd) especially myocardial infarction (mi), and the insufficiency of information in the field of physical rehabilitation, this study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a course of physical rehabilitation on the psychological status and physical characteristics f cardiac patients. in this study, the effect of 8 weeks exercise ...

BACKGROUND The selection of patients for rehabilitation, and the timing of transfer from acute care, are important clinical decisions that impact on care quality and patient flow. This paper reports utilization review data on inpatients in acute care with stroke, hip fracture or elective joint replacement, and other inpatients referred for rehabilitation. It examines reasons why acute level of ...