In a patient-centered care era, rehabilitation can benefit from researcher-clinician collaboration to effectively and efficiently produce the interdisciplinary science that is needed to improve patient-centered outcomes. The authors propose the use of the Forging Alliances in Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Research (FAIRR) logic model to provide guidance to rehabilitation scientists and clini...

Rehabilitation focuses on the functional outcomes of pathologic processes and uses a variety of therapeutic interventions to restore function. Geriatric rehabilitation differs from rehabilitation in younger persons in that many older patients suffer from multiple conditions that interact to produce disability. 1 Hence, an understanding of the disablement process is critical to rehabilitation of...

BACKGROUND The impact of outcome measure as early variables on rehabilitation length of stay (LOS) in traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients remains poorly investigated. AIM To investigate: 1) the association between LOS and motor and functional outcomes; 2) the predictive factors of LOS in TBI patients admitted to a rehabilitation center. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Inpatient TBI ...

Natural disasters can cause significant numbers of severe, disabling injuries, resulting in a public health emergency and requiring foreign assistance. However, since medical rehabilitation services are often poorly developed in disaster-affected regions and not highly prioritized by responding teams, physical and rehabilitation medicine (PRM) has historically been underemphasized in global dis...

BACKGROUND As health care practitioners, it is important to have an understanding of the common barriers to and facilitators of the rehabilitation services we provide. OBJECTIVES This article aimed to review the relevant literature regarding barriers to and facilitators of rehabilitation services for people with disabilities. METHOD Articles for the period 1990-2010 using descriptors relate...

Successful rehabilitation of stroke patients is strongly dependent on the engagement of patients. During a whole rehabilitation program, mundane rehabilitation exercises can easily become routine for patients, leading to boredom and as a result to ineffective functional recovery. This has been taken into consideration just by few rehabilitation systems. Engagement in rehabilitation can be decom...

Cancer support and rehabilitation are suggested to be an integral part of cancer care strategies. This study focuses on comparativeness of cancer support and rehabilitation programmes. The aim of this study was to analyse available cancer support and rehabilitation programmes in Sweden presented as complementary to cancer rehabilitation at cancer clinics. A multiple case study design was chosen...

OBJECTIVE Our aim was to develop evidence-informed recommendations for rehabilitation with older adults living with HIV. DESIGN We conducted a knowledge synthesis, combining research evidence specific to HIV, rehabilitation and ageing, with evidence on rehabilitation interventions for common comorbidities experienced by older adults with HIV. METHODS We included highly relevant HIV-specific...