See related article, pages 2101–2107. There is increasing knowledge over the past years on which factors influence stroke recovery.1–6 Organization and strategies of the rehabilitation seem to be particularly important because they can be influenced other than natural factors such as stroke location or age of the patient. Whereas in the US guidelines for the management of rehabilitation care ar...

This paper is based on a research carried out for evaluation of addict rehabilitation centers in Iran. The research has been conducted by application of survey method, questionnaire technique and interview with help seekers (addicts) in Qarchak Varamin Rehabilitation and De-addicion Center in south- eastern of Tehran. This study has been carried out in two stages of pre-treatment and rehabilita...

The top-priority challenges were faced by the medical rehabilitation system in Ukraine. Particularly important tasks include, first of all, patients who have recovered from COVID-19 disease and people with Combat stress reaction. This fact is well understood both society leadership Ministry Health Ukraine, which creating a special working group on this problem. Ukraine has prophylactic institut...

Abstract Background and Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of executive functions in the relationship between fine motor skills and reading skills in students with reading disorders. Method: This research was descriptive-correlation and structural equation modeling. The research population of the study included all students with reading disorders who referred t...

BACKGROUND Dual sensory loss (DSL) has a negative impact on health and wellbeing and its prevalence is expected to increase due to demographic aging. However, specialized care or rehabilitation programs for DSL are scarce. Until now, low vision rehabilitation does not sufficiently target concurrent impairments in vision and hearing. This study aims to 1) develop a DSL protocol (for occupational...

The number of victims sexual harassment increases every year while the and quality facilities related to rehabilitation are inadequate. According some experts, Healing Environment has a very good role in accelerating physical psychological recovery process patients, but reality, patients treated with inadequate terms space environment, so healing is less than optimal. Therefore, this study aims...

The functional assessment of multiple sclerosis (FAMS) is a disease-specific instrument that describes functional status of individuals with multiple sclerosis. The instrument was originally developed in the US and has been adapted to different languages including Danish. This study is a validation of the Danish version of FAMS in a sample of individuals referred to a four-week rehabilitation p...

OBJECTIVE To test the feasibility and efficacy of an internet program for smoking cessation during and after inpatient treatment in rehabilitation centers. METHODS A total of 7574 consecutively admitted inpatients from three German rehabilitation centers were assessed for smoking status. Daily smokers or former daily smokers who regularly used the internet and e-mail were proactively invited ...

Objective: To test the feasibility and efficacy of an Internet program for smoking cessation during and after inpatient treatment in rehabilitation centers. Methods: A total of 7574 consecutively admitted inpatients from three German rehabilitation centers were assessed for smoking status. Daily smokers or former daily smokers who regularly used the Internet and email were proactively invited f...

Over the last 10 years, we are proud of the fact we have finally begun to reduce in-hospital mortality following severe sepsis in some countries worldwide [1]. Further, mortality from acute lung injury has fallen dramatically, as the control group mortality in a recent large Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Research Network (ARDSnet) trial was strikingly only 16% [2]. But the fundamental que...