BACKGROUND The aim of our study was to investigate anticipated adaptation among patients in the subacute phase of Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). METHODS We used an observational longitudinal design. Patients with SCI (N = 44) rated their actual, previous and expected future Quality of Life (QoL) at three time points: within two weeks of admission to the rehabilitation center (RC), a few weeks befo...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between pain and functional independence in older adults during and after admission to rehabilitation after an acute illness or injury. DESIGN Prospective, observational cohort study. SETTING One community and one Veterans Affairs rehabilitation center. PARTICIPANTS Individuals aged 65 and older admitted for rehabilitation after an acute illness o...

OBJECTIVE To measure patient functional outcomes across rehabilitation centers. SETTING Traumatic Brain Injury Model System (TBIMS) centers. PARTICIPANTS Patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) admitted to 21 TBIMS rehabilitation centers (N = 6975, during 1999-2008). DESIGN Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data. MAIN MEASURES Center-specific functional outcomes of TB...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE Epidemiological analysis of the dynamics of admissions and patient characteristics is presented concerning 5,955 children and adolescents (3-18 years of age) hospitalized in 2007-2013 with neurological and mobility diseases in Świętokrzyskie Rehabilitation Centre (ŚRC) in southern Poland. MATERIALS AND METHOD Within the period of 7 years, 18,647 patients were admitt...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Pulmonary rehabilitation is an established treatment in patients with chronic lung disease but is not widely utilized. Most trials have been conducted in single centers. The National Emphysema Treatment Trial (NETT) provided an opportunity to evaluate pulmonary rehabilitation in a large cohort of patients who were treated in centers throughout the United States. DESIGN Prospe...

OBJECTIVE When a person is hospitalized, he or she enters an environment in which time is structured very differently than it is in everyday life. Research with healthy young subjects in sleep laboratories has indicated that disruption in activity-rest cycles significantly affects mood, physical skills, and cognitive performance. Older persons whose daily routines are upset when they become pat...

OBJECTIVE Detect the main predictive non-motor factors related to independent community ambulation after stroke. Furthermore, we propose a scale to estimate the probability of a stroke patient achieving independent community ambulation after 6 months of rehabilitation. DESIGN AND SETTINGS Prospective cohort. Subjects treated in a rehabilitation center in a large metropolitan area. Independent...

Objectives: Studying the situation of providing services for people with disability are very important and in current situation which is dominate on system providing rehabilitation services in Iran, private rehabilitation centers can be the best and the most important focus for this study. Methods: This research performed by qualitative method and with phenomenology type, and purposeful samp...

The rehabilitation centers have emerged and become legitimized in the biomedical model, which from the implementation of attendance, namely the operational guidelines of the national policy of humanization in care and management of the Unified Health System (SUS), have been seeking changes to ensure humanized access and the resolution of health problems. The aim of this study was to analyze the...