Rehabilitation - Science topic

How to do a good job in the development of rehabilitation sports for disabled people

Can passive movement of a joint, for example plantar/dorsiflexion of ankle joint, elicit EMG activity in tibialis anterior and gastrocnemius muscles?

current situation of disability,prevalence of disability,life of disabled people,support for disabled people etc.

dear colleagues,

conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis is not easy especially in the physiotherapy field, even if sometimes I feel I can do the entire steps alone but it needs collaboration with others according to Cochrane guidelines.

I am looking for a systematic review group ( teamwork) that has the same enthusiasm to conduct papers soon.

( area of interest: sports medicine, rehabilitation, and physiotherapy )

What would you give as best review article about pain management and rehabilitation?

I'm doing a systematic review of rehabilitation and return to sport after LCL injury.

From the included studies I have, not all the studies have a rehabilitation-phased protocol. What is the best way to present the rehabilitation interventions used across the different studies in a table? Would it be best to have columns of the phases, and for the studies that don;t have a phase protocol, write not available and create a column for exercises/modalities etc?

Any help would be appreciated in how to best present this information as it's confusing on how to of about it.

Which is the best preferred insole material in the business for a diabetic/fracture walker by practicing orthotists, rehab professionals and developers? The insole will be in direct contact with the plantar face of the foot.

1. Polyurethane (Poron L32)- Better sweat absorption, low resilience, elastic

2. Polyethylene (Plastozote M)- Good stress area distribution

3. EVA (Nora AL)- Stiffness, wear resistance

4. Other alternate suggestions

#orthosis

This pandemic has led to a great lack of resources in terms of knowledge in various fields of rehabilitation. What should we prioritize from now on?

Greetings!

I, Darshan Prakashbhai Parmar, MPT student, from Government Physiotherapy College Jamnagar, am conducting a survey on 'EFFICACY OF PELVIC PNF TO IMPROVE TRUNK CONTROL, BALANCE AND GAIT PATTERN IN NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS' as a part of my Evidence Based Study(EBS) under the supervision of my Guide, Dr. Karishma Jagad (MPT-NEURO), Sr. Lecturer at Government Physiotherapy College Jamnagar.

We therefore request physiotherapists practicing in India to kindly fill this questionnaire, which will hardly take around 10-15 minutes. The link for the survey is provided below. The responses will be kept anonymous.

I further request you to forward the link to your friends or colleagues.

*(In case the link does not open, please copy and paste the link in your web browser or you can whatsapp me on +917984377793, I will share the form link there.)*

Thank you for your time and participation.

Take care and stay safe

Do you have real experience of rehabilitating sodium (alkaline) soils in your country or region?

Hello, we applied Epidural Electrical Stimulation to a patient who had a Spinal Cord Injury for the first time in Turkey. As a result of my literature research, no information was given about the design of rehabilitation programs. How should the rehabilitation program be shaped for this patient? Also, how should epidural electrical stimulation mapping be?

I would love to know the existing approaches and ideas to make it possible!

What tool do you use to make clinical decisions?

Example:

a)sum of criteria (signs - symptoms);

b)the weighting of clinical scales;

c)use of RPS form and application of a CORE set ICF and thus obtain an operating profile?

I would like to inquiry about the history of occupational therapy in your countries. In this topic, there are some documents in US or UK. However, as far as I know, the history of other countries is not enough.

In Japan, the dawn of occupational therapy had started together physical therapy to legislate them in the 1960s. Japan had held a lot of patients with cerebral vascular accidents or mental health problems and struggled to build a system of rehabilitation. At that time, the economic boom of Japan had made the rehabilitation system financially enriched. I have heard such episodes and many troubles from senior occupational therapists.

I would like to know the history of occupational therapy in your country. One of the most interesting topics is the definition of “Occupational therapy”. I think the explanation in Japan is difficult to understand for people except for occupational therapists. I would like to communicate with each other. If you know the academic documents on this topic, please let me share the information.

I'm looking for a simple scale, that evaluate children motor handicap in general, not specific to only one affection.

Thank you,

It would be so nice if i could get help because i have to prepare one class about how sport helps people with some sort of addiction to any substance and i haven't found much information about it.

I really apreciate any help, thank you.

Have you ever imagined how the physically disabled people feel under COVID-19?

Which type of disability is most impacting these minority under COVID-19?

Autism? Cleft patients? Mental health patients? Deaf? Dumb? Blind? Loss of limbs?

How can we help them?

I need a standardized assessment tool/ questionnaire to conduct a study with patients post covid. To assess they nursing and rehab needs and specifics .

Dera Dr,

I have been working as a proffessor at Hacettepe University since 1984. We planned a MsC thesis on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy patients about their physical performans. We would like to researh the relation between pulmonary function and PA level is investigated. One of our outcomes is Bouchard 3 days physical activity diary. If you don't mind we would like to use your diary in our study. I am looking forward to hear your response.

Best regards.,

A. Ayşe Karaduman PT. PhD Prof.

Hacettepe University Faculty of Healty Sciences

Department of Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation

I have couple of questions and will really appreciate it if you can help me with them:

1) I want to test if different age groups (IV) will score differently to punitive and rehabilitation attitudes (DV's).

2) Same with gender and ethnicity (IV's)

I need to publish my article but for free in physical therapy and rehabilitation field

To evaluate participants with follow up interviews, who completed residential rehabilitation and now currently in the community. The objective is to assess why they relapsed if they did, and what helped them to be abstinent after engaging with a community.

Many suspected cases of Corona virus are self or home quarantine , some of them may have difficulty in breathing and other symptoms but are still having negative report for coronavirus disease. So what should be the advice given by Physiotherapist to them.

Participating in an ICU based study looking at intubated and ventilated COVID patients first out of bed rehabilitation session with Physiotherapists and trying to determine if it is safe by using group analysis to analyse physiological parameters such as systolic and diastolic blood pressure, heart rate and oxygenation. Currently very little data on what the MCID to determine how much of a change in these parameters would be clinically important that may determine if rehabilitation is safe for this patient group.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The novel Covid-19 pandemic gives rise to a global increase in ICU admissions.

Due to the nature of disease, the high incidence and a longer stay on intensive care, we can expect a tremendous increase in ICUAW (intensive care unit acquired weakness).

I wanted to ask if there is research conducted and data available describing the incidence and prevalence of CIP and CIM (critical illness polyneuropathy and myopathy resp.) post Covid-19.

I would like to know whether there is a predisposition for one or the other in function of a more specific rehabilitation.

Friendly greetings.

Participating in an ICU based study looking at intubated and ventilated COVID patients first out of bed rehabilitation session with Physiotherapists and trying to determine if it is safe by using group analysis to analyse physiological parameters such as systolic and diastolic blood pressure, heart rate and oxygenation. Currently very little data on what the MCID to determine how much of a change in these parameters would be clinically important that may determine if rehabilitation is safe for this patient group.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi All,

I am working on the rehabilitation of a fire-damaged structure.

Should I consider the Column below Soil structurally deficient.

visually it doesn't look like fire affected the column below grade.

Should I retrofit whole member or just the section above plinth beam.

as Slab on Grade is a 6" the Plain Concrete Slab which is difficult to chissel/excavate.

May I know someone that have full data of any rehabilitation process that used electromyography data for that movement?

Some threatened endemic plants, which were more widespread in the cold ages (relict), when the environmental conditions were appropriate, their rehabilitation process is very difficult. These plants are restricted in their survival to the presence of water, as they are spread around springs and wells saturated with water throughout the year. As a result of successive droughts, the plant was confined to the tops of the mountains (which sometimes provides it with a continuous source of water as a result of the snow). In some cases, due to the nature of the confined micro-habitat (steep, water-rich mountain cliffs), it is extremely difficult to use seedlings in the rehabilitation process, and the only opportunity is to grow plants in the wild through previously treated seeds to break dormancy. Although these seeds germinate, their survival rates do not exceed 1%. How can we improve the survival rate of these new plants, taking into account the dry and water-poor desert environment?

I am a candidate student in phd nursing. Doing my dissertation under the title"

•Improving the Patient Safety Process in Brain and spinal injuries Ward Rofeideh Rehabilitation Hospital".

I am currently doing my research on sustainable rehabilitation of selected abandoned mine sites in Namibia. One of the selected site has got a huge slag dump and is a source of heavy metal pollution especially arsenic, zinc, lead and vanadium.

Dear colleagues! I would like to clarify for myself, when you use the ICF to assess the rehabilitation potential of a child, do you use the ICF for adults or use the ICF for children and youth version? I am asking this question because I heard that the version for children and youths was canceled. How true is this information?

Hi there,

I am eager to hear from researchers or clinicians who have used n-of-1 studies for the above purposes. They seem to offer advantages over many other study designs, particularly for when there is little guidance or predictors of outcome on which therapeutic option to choose for a patient. They also seem rare, and most of the literature I've seen so far suggests that they have mostly been used for trying out different medicines.

I'm hoping to hear some encouraging stories of their use, but can see that there may be limitations with implementing them (due to costs / time etc.)

I'm working on project to better understand comprehensive rehabilitative needs for people with a history of low-voltage electrical injury. Progressive cellular damage in low-voltage electrical injury sequelae isn't well understood. Providing rehabilitation options for clients with ongoing rehabilitation needs will improve quality of life.

Historically, research indicates that people with a history of electrical injury experience the initial injury and then a unique neurological/neuropsych sequelae (including muscle weakness, arrhythmia, tardive seizures, general motor dysregulation, channelopathies, brainstem dysfunction, cataracts and deficits in memory, executive functioning, visual perceptual, visual spatial, visual processing, auditory processing and sensory integration).

The constellation of electrical injury sequelae symptoms is vast. Presently there is limited information on comprehensive rehabilitative needs. This project is designed to fill a present gap in rehabilitative research to improve quality of life including academic and employment outcomes.

"The long-term sequelae of electrical injury are difficult to study. The strength of the literature is impaired by the necessity of retrospective methods and case studies that typically describe small cohorts. Despite these limitations, there are consistent reports of similar findings of late effects of electrical injury" (Wesner & Hickie, 2013).

"Most of the literature associates these long-term sequelae with a highly diffuse injury ... The appearance of these late consequences of electrical injury might be substantially delayed, with onset 1 to 5 or more years after the electrical injury." (Wesner & Hickie, 2013).

Wesner, M. L., & Hickie, J. (2013). Long-term sequelae of electrical injury. Canadian Family Physician, 59(September), 935–939.

Stockly, O. R., Wolfe, A. E., Espinoza, L. F., Simko, L. C., Kowalske, K., Carrougher, G. J., … Schneider, J. C. (2019). The impact of electrical injuries on long-term outcomes: A Burn Model System National Database study. Burns, 46(2), 352–359. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2019.07.030

How standard rehabilitation (rehabilitation -physiatric interventions) be practiced safely and keeping the patients safe during COVID 19 pandemic ?

a) Rehabilitation medicine practice requires good physician/therapist relationship including physical/psychological contacts, b) many of the low resource rehabilitation settings have space and rehabilitation health care worker shortage and c) Rehabilitation is a continuum of care from acute/critical care to home/community)

I believe that there are a number of areas in which we should discuss how to improve clinical rehabilitation for patients. For example regarding the issue of where the majority of rehabilitation should take place;

It could be argued that the more rehabilitation takes place in the family home the better the potential for the patient for the following reasons;

Working Environment: Apparently, the environment we are in determines how we live our lives, and the influence of family, friends and neighbours needs to be appreciated and incorporated more into rehabilitation. Gladwell (2011) introduces the ‘Rosetto Effect’ (apparent cardiovascular prevention from living in a close community environment), and rehabilitation patients may also benefit from the cumulative effects of rehabilitating at home. As brain changes are context dependent (Robertson 2012), home advantage increases testosterone release due to associated cues, and the physical and social world we inhabit shape our brain. Home creates a set of smells, sounds, cues that reduce stress. Any safety signal (being at home) acts as an antidote to some of the damaging effects from the stress of being disabled and potentially losing control of independence. Furthermore, it also releases brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) a brain fertiliser that helps foster new connections in brain. Thus being at home actually inhibits stress and its toxic consequences. If home is associated with a signal that we will not be subject to stress i.e. warning signals, then does it not make sense to carry out more rehabilitation at home.

What is your opinion of this? Thanks Ken

My position on this is perhaps slightly different to some others as I was working in East London helping Moslem run colleges as a consultant at the time students were being radicalised and recruited, and I am perhaps more aware of what was happening, especially within Bangladesh communities.

a) Find out the disability situation of the defined region/settings which is truly non-existent

b) Needs of Rehabilitation Medicine at low resource region and settings : take the examples from high resource settings

c) Capacity Building eg Rehabilitation professionals education/ training /job creation/placements/ team meetings and quality control

d) Rehabilitation in national focus specific areas like Musculoskeletal Disorders and Neurological -orthopedic conditions

e) Rehabilitation at disaster and austere situations

f) Rehabilitation leaders development

tDCS = Transcranial direct current stimulation

In your opinion, in a program of rehabilitation of motor deficit with tDCS, a condition of neoformation or tumor removal is a criteria of exclusion?

Hello,

I am willing to submit my manuscript in JNER of Biomed central journal. Regarding adding figures in latex file, in the authors guidelines , it says that the figures should be added separately under a FIGURE section at the END of the tex file. I have a doubt regarding the following instruction - " Each figure of a manuscript should be submitted as a single file that fits on a single page in portrait format." Does it mean that the pdflatex generated should contain just one figure per page? Anyone, if you have any prior experience on submitting to JNER, could you guide me in this regard.

So if you use one, please share your cases. If you not use it, please answer: have you considered using them?

I know that such systems are used for rehabilitation, training of athletes, animation and in other areas. I would like to know your best cases at the current time.

Are there any commercially available test system/walking simulator to test

(1) ankle foot orthotics

(2) knee braces

(3) knee ankle foot orthosis

Physiotherapy and exercise show short-term improvements in physical function. I would like to know particularly cycling exercise for treatment.

I need titles of articles on the energetic rehabilitation of the old building in the arid environment

We are conducting a research project about impact of word/wording on pain perception: implications for rehabilitation/ physiotherapy practice.

Please Any suggestion for recommended articles or reference, or previous experience.

Self-immolation is a common suicidal method that is placed in burn injury category that required long-term treatment as well as social and emotional rehabilitation. The situation for survivors is further aggravated by the limited access to psychiatric care following physical

treatment, and the post-treatment stigmatization by family and community members.

How can we prevent stigmatization in women who committed self immolation?

I have recently read that some people think that extremist offenders should be kept in prisons separately from other inmates, make sure they can't corrupt the other inmates and get them to commit terrorist acts, this is a one of the solution that has been recently presented on the question about how to deal with extremist offenders. Although I have to admit that the nature of crime that this offenders did is quite different than the majority of other crimes that we come across, I don't think that this solution works. What's wrong with this solution? Firstly, I think that if you keep extremist offenders together and isolated from the other inmates they may get better at what they do, they will share/learn new practices which will help them to perform better than they did before. Secondly, they probably will find it more difficult to get rehabilitated because of the pressure of majority of the people that they live with on their landings, any desire towards rehabilitation can be seen as a sign of weakness in the eyes of extremists that are not changed, this may cause violence and other issues. Thirdly, isolated them from the rest of community will not prepare them to live in the community after released, and if we fail in delivering that, all of us have to suffer the consequences. This kind of offenders should be given the chance to change themselves and shouldn't be isolated, they need our trust in order to be able to change their life. This action is so vital for them and for the entire society. Isolated them unless is "for ever" will not get us anything, will damage their chance of getting rehabilitation, waste our resource and threaten our security. Changing their mind, this is what these offenders need, this process requires trust, good example and help, we as a society have got this obligation to offer that and we have to fulfil our obligation. We should treat these offenders as they treated us by using this algorithm, "we against them", we have to treat them differently, we all together, we are all humans". We can't change them if we do the same thing like they did to us. We have to try to help them by changing their mind, and we can do that by giving them the chance to live among other inmates, obviously we have to watch them carefully and correct all their mistakes, but we shouldn't stop thinking that they can changed themselves. If we isolated them we just protect the others, or protect us for a short period of time, which is not good at all, in this case we definitely can't afford to think like that.

Every year, millions of people suffer from injuries that require long-term medical rehabilitation. The rehabilitation process is typically complex, with physical and psychological dimensions, and outcomes are often difficult to guarantee.

Through novel application of robotics technology, however, some aspects of rehabilitation may soon look very different. New medical robots are being developed to help people with a variety of medical conditions on their road to recovery.

Do you have any clinical experience or study results?

Dear all,

I have been searching through the literature for examples of possible impacts on biological communities of interventions targeted at restoring / stabilizing landslides. I found just a few studies focusing on plant/invertebrates. I wonder whether there are no works about the potential impact of landslide restoration/rehabilitation on other animal groups/species (I'm particularly interested in birds), or I missed something...

Any hint would be much appreciated!

Thank you in advance.

Mattia

Leguminous are known to be nitrogen fixers , which is a criteria for choosing them as main culture, moreover , those cultures reduce the amount of fertilisers used by agricultor , which contribute environmentaly and economicaly.

Are there any reasons for choosing fabaceae cultures ? and which spices are themost use in soil rehabilitation?

Any references or articles are welcomed.

Regards

Student physiotherapist

Student physiotherapist

In "Structural Engineering":

What are the differences between: Strengthening, Rehabilitation, Upgrading, Retrofitting, Repairing?

Buenas tardes,

Soy médico residente de Medicina Física y Rehabilitación, con interés en realizar un estudio de correlación de calidad de vida en pacientes con Esclerosis Múltiple y los resultados de pruebas físicas funcionales. ¿Usted podría por favor indicarme qué proceso realizar para poder utilizar esta versión en español en este proyecto? De antemano, muchas gracias.

A RC slab undergoing a considerably large deflection, it can easily be noted visually. The slab is a rectangular in shape resting on walls from the four sides. This large deflection is due to inappropriate design (low concrete grade and low reinforcement) and overloading. How can this slab be rehabilitated ?

Since we face with heteronomy and self-censorship in the nature of traditional arts, can teaching handicraft, rather than fine art project, lead to different consequence in the quality of rehabilitation of incacerated men and women?

My graduation project is about rehabilitation using upper limb exoskeleton

i have been searching papers for previous work in this field

and i found everyone of them used different type (DC brushed , DC brushless ,DC servo and stepper)

i can't decide which one to use

Those who believe that psychological rehabilitation precedes educational rehabilitation to achieve learning goals

A neat and smooth way of life, avoiding the acquisition of inadequate health habits, as well as certain foodstuffs, and the sensitivity which can be a cause of neurological disease, including MS, may also be cure for the disease

Such a macrobiotic diet, and low radioactive water (cca 6 Becquerel / Bq) lower temperatures (18-20° C), swimming pool and professionally indicated and controlled use of corticosteroids, symptomatic therapy and immunomodulatory drugs in different phases of the disease, proved to be very useful in many cases the form of RR MS, as evidenced by reports of many research papers, observations, the patients themselves and their medical practitioners.

The ICF model of rehabilitation is not only to improve body structure and function but also activity and participation level of the patient....

Do you think that physiotherapists are justifying this model?

Can this question consider as a good qualitative research?

I am interesting with the historical city centers

- collaboration among 3 local (Malaysia) or 1 foreign university

- maximum fund RM 25000 each project

- all projects run simultaneously

- output:1 index article

- duration: 2 years

- required MoU/agreement letter among universities

- participated university agreed to provide similar grant's amount

- niche ares : biomedical engineering, biomechanics, sports science, rehabilitation

Please contact me if interested: yusof.b@fsskj.upsi.edu.my

We are looking for data for community acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA). It is very hard to find. One direction would be through athlete sources, since CA-MRSA is a serious problem with athletes. 

For examples Dohsa-hou is a Japanese rehabilitation program which has been used for years in special education and rehabilitation sectores.

I'm looking for the best way to use a VR system in a motor rehabilitation protocol for post-stroke patients.

Thanks to everyone who will respond!

Need case reports regarding the effects of physical exercise/functional rehabilitation/aquatic exercises or On-field training on ACL injured soccer goalkeeper.

We want to start a new trial on stroke recovery and the clinicians involved are not used to administer the Fugl-Meyer. How to prevent learning effects to maximize intra-rater reliability and external validity? I wonder how do other labs and hospitals deal with this issue. Are there any official common guidelines on this?

particularly for patients after knee surgery, is there evidence to support whether it is best for rehabilitation and functional range of motion to elevate the affected lower extremity with or without support under the length of the lower extremity

My friend is in a stroke and he needs a recommendation for his diet. He lost 17kg and 1/3 of his brain function. Motor functional but weak.

Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) is a stretching technique utilized to improve muscle elasticity and has been shown to have a positive effect on active and passive range of motions.what are the mechanisms, proposed theories, and physiological changes that occur due to proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation techniques?

Most of the amputees are suffering from the secondary disorders which are more common in upper extremity one. There is more pressure on upper limb amputees’ intact hand since they have to do every single task just by one hand and this imbalance causes musculoskeletal problems such as scoliosis. Despite doctors advice, due to the difficulties of prosthetic hands uses especially in above elbow cases, some of the amputees desist from using it, after a while. I want to know if cosmetic prosthetic really prevents spine deformity like scoliosis?

I'm writing on my master thesis about evaluating SCI rehabilitation outcome in a specific setting. Do you know if there is any german version of the needs assessment checklist?