The role of smoking in the development and prognosis cardiovascular disease had been clearly demonstrated. During cardiology specialist care rehabilitation, secondary prevention targeted treatment patients’ risk factors is a daily therapeutic routine line assistant tasks. Organized support for cessation strongly recommended context rehabilitation both high-risk population those who experienced ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been going on for more than a year and half, the number of confirmed cases infection in world already exceeded 150 million people. multisystemic nature lesions COVID-19, as well Post-COVID- 19 syndrome, proven, which requires rethinking rehabilitation such patients. This lecture discusses current approaches to medical patients with from view an infectious disease speci...

The aim of this review is to describe aspects of vocational rehabilitation relevant for a physician aiming to become a specialist in physical and rehabilitation medicine (PRM). The review discusses the epidemiology of incapacity for work, the major patient groups in vocational rehabilitation (musculoskeletal and psychiatric diagnoses comprise approximately 50-70% of the patients), the influence...

Vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death among teens. Teens with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), or both (ADHD-ASD) may have a greater crash risk. We examined the between-groups demographic, clinical, and predriving performance differences of 22 teens with ADHD-ASD (mean age = 15.05, standard deviation [SD] = 0.95) and 22 healthy control (HC)...

PURPOSE The aim of this manuscript is to describe recent changes in rehabilitation medicine education in Croatia, and to highlight the effort that was made at University of Split School of Medicine, as well as at University Hospital Split in order to improve training in rehabilitation medicine. METHOD Critical collection and study of pertinent data on evolvement and present state of physical ...

AIM To explore the reasons given by a disability, assessment and rehabilitation team (DART) for perceived difficulties in discussing sexual problems with male patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), and to compare them with the views of a sample of patients. METHOD Data were gathered from a multidisciplinary team who were responsible for assessment and rehabilitation of patients with MS, using...

Clinical governance has been introduced in the UK as a mechanism to improve the quality of health services, and the professional performance of clinicians. Specialist societies have a pivotal role to play in developing systems to support its implementation in clinical practice. Rehabilitation medicine is a specialty characterised by closely integrated interdisciplinary teamwork. The particular ...

This paper presents the design and implementation of an articular auxiliary rehabilitation system based on Kinect. This is non-ludic software which main target is shoulder rehabilitation based on exercises working in frontal and sagittal plane. This work was developed for the Windows platform using C# programming language and MicrosoftKinect Software Development Kit. This system monitors the pa...

Complex regional pain syndrome is chronic neuropatic pain condition which usually arise after trauma. It is associated with some of the sensory, vasomotor, sudomotor, motor and trophic symptoms and sings. Due to variability of symptoms and long-lasting pain, these patients are hard to rehabilitate. They exhibit activity related fear and so have pronounced functional limitations. Adequate rehabi...