The devastating earthquake in Sichuan, China on 12 May 2008 left thousands of survivors requiring medical care and intensive rehabilitation. In view of this great demand, the Chinese Speaking Orthopaedic Society established the "Stand Tall" project to provide voluntary services to aid amputee victims in achieving total rehabilitation and social integration. This case report highlights the multi...

In the past decade, important consideration has been given to the rehabilitation of post-operative thoracic surgery patients. Particularly in those institutions where large volumes of thoracic surgery have been done, the need for early restoration of shoulder function and chest motion has become obvious. As early as 1934, Miss Winifred Linton at the Brompton Hospital1 in London, instituted, und...

BACKGROUND Chronic pain is a debilitating condition that affects people all over the world. To effectively treat chronic pain patients, assignment to patient-centered functional restoration and psychological pain rehabilitation programs at an early stage is essential. METHODS This article describes the initial patient screening and evaluation process for an interdisciplinary chronic pain reha...

Introduction: There are significant gender differences in the epidemiology and presentation of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), physiological aspects of CVDs, response to diagnostic tests or interventions, and prevalence or incidence of the associated risk factors. Considering the independent influence of gender on early dire consequences of such diseases, this study was conducted to investigate...

Rehabilitation has been shown to influence brain recovery and to reduce the number of patients who are left handicapped following stroke; however, a question emerges in terms of the optimal time-point to initiate mobilisation. Very early mobilisation involves starting mobilisation including sitting up, getting out of bed, standing and walking, soon after stroke and continuing at frequent interv...

Evidence suggests that patients with hip fractures should begin rehabilitation no later than six days following surgery. The reality is often far different. In an initiative led by the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) Rehab Network, acute care and rehab/complex continuing care hospitals across the GTA have implemented a new early referral process to aid transition of patients from acute care to inpat...

Objective: To assess the effects of an intensive, multidisciplinary rehabilitation program for patients with early to mid-stage Huntington’s disease. Design: A prospective intervention study. Setting: Two Norwegian inpatient rehabilitation centers. Subjects: 37 patients, with earlyto midstage Huntington’s disease Interventions: A one year rehabilitation program, consisting of three admissions o...

Leprosy is a medico-social problem and more than a disease . Statistics indicate that the disease, as a medical problem, has been decreasing steadily world wide since the advent of multi-drug therapy (MDT) in the early 1980s. However, the social dimensions of the disease in terms of stigma, poverty, disabilities and deformities, loss of self-respect and dignity have continued to constitute a ma...

Background. Our study aimed to analyze retrospectively the locomotion performance in patients following below-the-knee amputation (BKA) for atherosclerotic critical limb ischaemia (CLI) in relation to factors which may influence the final outcome. Material and methods. Two groups of patients were analyzed: Group I (n = 53), which underwent fitting of prosthesis and rehabilitation immediately af...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the activity of wrist extensor muscle, correlating with wrist motion during gripping after flexor tendon repair. DESIGN Cross-sectional clinical measurement study. SETTING Laboratory for biomechanics and rehabilitation. SUBJECTS A total of 11 patients submitted to rehabilitation by early passive motion of the fingers with wrist flexion position were evaluated after 8...