Stroke rehabilitation has been energized by the increasing confluence of supporting literature from animal studies, neuroimaging investigation of poststroke recovery, and an explosion of clinical rehabilitation trials. As basic scientists and clinical researchers converge, the exciting new technologies and more rigorous clinical methodologies used provide increasing support for some of the basi...

Of 48 persons in a psychosocial rehabilitation program, 20 participated in an optional spirituality group (SG), while the other 28 did not. The recovery progress based on treatment goal attainment is compared between those participating and those not participating in the SG. Within 6 months, all of the SG participants (ioo%) achieved their goals, compared to 16 of the 28 individuals (57%) not i...

BACKGROUND The importance of long term rehabilitation for people with stroke is increasingly evident, yet it is not known whether such services can be materialised in countries with limited community resources. In this study, we explored the perception of rehabilitation professionals and people with stroke towards long term stroke rehabilitation services and potential approaches to enable provi...

BACKGROUND an organized, goal-defined and time-specified plan of management as envisaged by the integrated care pathway approach can achieve quality outcomes at lower cost. Integrated care pathways may have applications to stroke management because diagnosis is well defined, complex interdisciplinary inputs are required and there is good evidence on best practice. METHOD we reviewed medical, ...

59 Feighner positive Schizophrenics were assessed for subjective rehabilitation needs using a specially designed schedule for the purpose. It was observed that employment and vocational rehabilitation were most sought after, psychosocial rehabilitation less so, and accommodation hardly at all. Both women and men had identical needs, and the necessity for individualised package programmes was id...

The assessment of physico-chemical properties in forest soils affected by fires was evaluated using near infrared reflectance (NIR) spectroscopy coupled with chemometric methods. In order to describe the soil properties, measurements were taken of the total organic carbon on solid phase, the total nitrogen content, the organic carbon and the specific absorbences at 254 and 280 nm of humic subst...

Large, high-severity wildfires remove vegetation cover and expose mineral soil, ofen causing erosion and runoff during postfire rain events to increase dramatically. Land-management agencies in the United States are required to assess site conditions after wildfire and, where necessary, implement emergency watershed rehabilitation measures to help stabilize soil; control movement of water, sedi...

abstract background and aim: visual impairment affects people's quality of life. since the effect of rehabilitation services is measured by improving in quality of life, this study was performed to evaluate the effect of rehabilitation services on quality of life in the blind. materials and methods: 121 blind and low vision people who covered by zahedan welfare organization were studied by...