Physical Rehabilitation Center Research Articles

Qualité Et Conditions De Collaboration Avec Les Familles Perçues Par Le Personnel De Réadaptation En Milieu Psychiatrique Et De Déficience Physique

This paper describes the point of view of professionals working with traumatic brain injury (TBI) clients or people with schizophrenic disorders towards their collaboration with clients' families. Four hundred and thirty professionals from 3 different regions in the province of Quebec took part in the study. They were recruited from psychiatric and general hospitals and physical rehabilitation centres. The results of the study point up that conditions for collaboration with families are better for respondents working with TBI clients than for respondents in the psychiatric sector. Furthermore, the results showed that respondents working with TBI clients are significantly more satisfied with their working conditions and the services they deliver and perceive a higher degree of collaboration with families than mental health workers. Another finding of the study is that personnel intervening in an interdisciplinary team reported a higher degree of collaboration with families than respondents working in a multidisciplinary team setting or individually. In the same vein, respondents who received training regarding intervention with families during their practice or during their academic training reported a higher degree of collaboration with their clients' families.

Music therapy in physical medicine and rehabilitation

The therapeutic effects of music are being recognized increasingly in the field of rehabilitation medicine. More music therapists are being employed in physical medicine and rehabilitation centres, with the goal of using music therapy services to assist in the physical recovery and health maintenance of clients. In spite of the benefits of physical rehabilitation programs, client participation to their full potential is often not observed. Music encourages participation in exercises and activities. Music can ease the discomfort and difficulty associated with exercise and therapy activities, and help ensure consistent participation. One of the goals of the music therapist is to provide a means for the client to express him/herself in a musical activity. Music therapy and rehabilitation medicine are starting to find a common niche in working together with clients who have various neurological, orthopaedic, and paediatric conditions. Therapeutic application of music in rehabilitation contributes to the quality of life of individuals with disabilities. Combined goals could include improving strength, range of motion, balance, communication, and cognition. Continued efforts in clinical practice and research will build on the information already available to further define possible applications of music therapy in rehabilitation, and its outcome and benefits. Occupational therapists can use the therapeutic medium of music, and the services of the music therapy discipline, in assisting clients to maximize their functional independence in their daily occupational roles.

Assessing ability to drive following an acute neurological event: are we on the right road?

Every day in Canada occupational therapists are asked to assess clients with neurological impairments and to provide recommendations to provincial licensing bureaus regarding the individual's fitness to drive. These decisions have great impact on the client and on society. In this paper we briefly review the findings that have been published regarding the assessment of individuals with neurological conditions who wish to resume driving. In addition, a description of the tools commonly used to assess individuals is provided, along with where available, the measurement properties of each. Finally, the Driving Evaluation Service of a physical rehabilitation centre is described.

A Tool to Simplify Data Reduction During Clinical Gait Assessment

1Physical Therapy Clinical Supervisor 2Stroke Senior Physical Therapist Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center, Department of Physical Therapy, Fishersville, VA 22939

The role of MRl in determining the ethlopathogenesis of chronical knee pain

In this study, 47 cases with longstanding knee pain, admitted to Bakirkoy Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Center and Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Department in Faculty of Medicine at Trakya University were evaluated. Clinical and radiologic findings of a total of 47 gonarthrosis patients with 51 painful knees which proved to be unresponsive to medication and physical therapy modalities were examined. MRI was performed in order to minimize diagnostical and therapeutical errors and the results were compared. MRI examination revealed 193 pathologica: images all of which were degenerative origin. These findings were evaluated as more than one factor influenced the clinical outcome of these patients and also concluded that the degeneration of meniscal bodies play a very important role especially in the clinical outcome.

Physical rehabilitation of the old, old patient.

An increasing number of persons over the age of 85 are surviving acute illnesses and are being referred for physical rehabilitation. There have been no reports in the United States literature about the effectiveness of rehabilitation for this age group. Results of treatment of 97 patients (one hundred consecutive admissions) who were referred by four general hospitals to a suburban physical rehabilitation center were examined and the patients followed for six to 18 months. Seventy-nine per cent of the patients showed improvement, 18 per cent stayed the same, and 3 per cent worsened. Seventy-one per cent either returned to the same setting as before hospitalization or moved in with family members after treatment. These results show that well-planned rehabilitation is effective in the very old patient.

Rehabilitation Success: The Interrelationships of Multiple Criteria

Human service organizations assert that individuals succeed or fail in the change process. What are the criteria of this success? When multiple criteria of success are employed, does success on one criterion imply success on another? These questions are examined with over time data on 122 patients from two physical rehabilitation centers using a partial correlation approach to change scores. Findings reveal that evaluation of rehabilitation success involves the establishment of multiple criteria. The correlations of the various criteria of rehabilitation success depend on the variables and indicators used. Multiple indicators of physical functioning intercorrelate well but are only moderately related to judges' assessments of social functioning and are even less related to self-administered indicators of social functioning. Further, cooperation and completion of services do not seem to be related to improvement in physical or socialfunctioning. Despite this complexity, staff give individuals a single label of success or failure which masks the complexity of the evaluation process.

Behavior Modification Techniques in a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Center

Behavior Modification Techniques in a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Center

McKenzie treatment versus mulligan sustained natural apophyseal glides for chronic mechanical low back pain.

Background and Objective:Chronic mechanical low back pain is common among different age groups and genders. Different manual therapy techniques combined with exercise therapy and electrotherapy modalities play an important role in its management. Our objective was to compare the effects of McKenzie extension exercisesprogram (EEP) versus Mulligan Sustained Natural Apophyseal Glides (SNAGs) for chronic mechanical low back pain (CMLBP).Methods:This randomized control trial (RCT) was conducted at Riphah Physical Rehabilitation Centre, Pakistan Railways General Hospital Rawalpindi, from 1st July to 31st December 2014.The inclusion criteria was patients of both gender and age range 30-70 years with minimum 4 weeks history of CMLBP. A total of 37 patients were screened out as per inclusion criteria and randomly placed into two groups. Twenty patients in group A were treated with Mulligan SNAGs and 17 patients in group B with McKenzie EEP for four weeks at two session per week and single session per day. Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), Oswestry Disability Scale (ODI) and lumber Range of Motion (ROM) were used as an assessment tools and were measured at baseline and at the completion 4 weeks intervention. The data was analyzed with SPSS to draw the statistical and clinical significance of both interventions.Results:At the completion of 4 weeks intervention the pre and post statistical analysis revealed that clinically the McKenzie EEP improved pain (mean 9.12 to 1.46) and disability (73.82 to 6.24) slightly more than Mulligan SNAGs (pain: from 8.85 to 2.55, disability 73.75 to 7.05), while the Mulligan SNAGs improved lumbar ROM more effectively than McKenzie EEP in all directions including flexion, extension, side bending and rotation. Statistically there was no significant difference between the effects of two interventions in managing pain and disability, and improving Lumber ROM.Conclusion:McKenzie EEP is clinically slightly more effective in the management of pain and disability as compared with Mulligan SNAGs, while Mulligan SNAGs are more effective in the improvement of lumbar ROM as compared with Mechanize EEP in the management of CMLBP.

Heel Protector during Ambulation

Journal Article Heel Protector during Ambulation Get access Margaret L. McComas, M.S. Margaret L. McComas, M.S. Chief Physical Therapist George Morris Piersol Rehabilitation Center, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Physical Therapy, Volume 48, Issue 2, February 1968, Page 138, https://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/48.2.138 Published: 01 February 1968

OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT OF TREATMENT OF HAND INJURIES; A NEW METHOD OF MEASUREMENT.

OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT OF TREATMENT OF HAND INJURIES: A NEW METHOD OF MEASUREMENT Get access HUGH GLANVILLE HUGH GLANVILLE Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Centre, Odstock HospitalWilts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Rheumatology, Volume 7, Issue 8, November 1964, Pages 304–306, https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/7.8.304 Published: 01 November 1964

A bathtub stool.

Journal Article A Bathtub Stool Get access Irving Kronenberg, B.S. Irving Kronenberg, B.S. Physical Therapist 1New York Regional Respirator and Rehabilitation Center. Bellevue Medical Center, Goldwater Memorial Hospital, New York, N. Y. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Physical Therapy, Volume 38, Issue 7, July 1958, Page 483, https://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/38.7.483a Published: 01 July 1958