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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Patients rehabilitation"”.
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Ultrasound Guided Motor Sparing Knee Blocks for Postoperative Analgesia Following Total Knee Arthroplasty
… (TKA) pain is severe and can inhibit patients’ rehabilitation. We devised a single injection motor sparing knee block (MSB) by targeting the adductor canal and lateral femoral cutaneous nerve with a posterior knee infiltration under ultrasound. Our primary objective was to evaluate the …
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Exploring the Dynamic Assessment Paradigm and its usefulness at Assessing Learning Potential of Schizophrenia Patients
… shown to provide indication of schizophrenia patients' rehabilitation potential. DA can potentially enables clinicians to make better informed referral decisions by matching a patient?s rehabilitation potential to the appropriate rehabilitation programs. Study 1 therefore investigated whether …
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Cardiac Rehabilitation and Activities of Daily Living in Women After Myocardial Infarction
… in women post-MI and participation in a cardiac rehabilitation (CR) program. A sample of 52 post-MI women responded to a mailed survey. The women were categorized according to age (45-64 years and 65-90 years) and whether they had participated in a cardiac rehabilitation (CR) program post-MI. …
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The Influence of a Rehabilitation Program on Perceived Exertion in Cardiac Patients
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THE MEDIATING ROLE OF SELF-EFFICACY EXPECTATIONS AND SELF-EVALUATION IN THE REHABILITATION PROCESS
… medium through which feedback is presented to patients participating in rehabilitation would have an effect on their future expectations of performance for motor tasks encountered in therapy and the actual performance of strength and endurance tasks. It was hypothesized that knee injury …
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Study of mechanical characteristics of ankle-foot orthoses using finite element analysis method
… devices applied to the lower leg segment in patients with ankle joint impairment due to neuromusculoskeletal disorders resulting in abnormal gait. In the last three decades, plastic AFOs have superseded conventional metal AFOs. Prescriptions of AFOs by orthotists are usually based on trial …
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The effectiveness of acupuncture in motor function recovery during cerebrovascular accident rehabilitation
… with motor function control. Conventional stroke rehabilitation therapy plays an important role in motor function recovery, however more than half of the survivors remain with a certain degree of impairment (NINDS, 2011). Thereby, the aim of this dissertation is to search for other modalities of …
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An outcomes study: Outpatient versus inpatient hernia repairs
… between inpatient and outpatient hernia repair patients.
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An outcomes study: Outpatient versus inpatient hernia repairs
… between inpatient and outpatient hernia repair patients.
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Objective real-time motion analysis using wearable devices for post stroke rehabilitation
With the growing population of the elderly, there is an increasing need for reliable, inexpensive, and quantifiable clinical measures. This thesis proposes mStroke, a practical, accurate, and mobile health system that remotely measures a stroke patient's proficiency in standard post-stroke therapy …
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Stroke risk factors, outcomes and models of stroke care in a culturally and linguistically Diverse (CALD) elderly population.
… and disability worldwide. The majority of stroke patients are elderly. Advanced age, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, atrial fibrillation, smoking and heavy alcohol drinking are the major risk factors. Treatment of modifiable risk factors is an important strategy for primary and secondary stroke …
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I'm going back to work: perceptions and experiences of back rehabilitated clients regarding their worker roles
Clinical research has shown that patients experience difficulty in adjusting to their pre-morbid worker roles after they have been through a back rehabilitation programme. The pressure and competitiveness of modern day society to achieve competence and to survive has proven to be stressful, both …
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A comparison of cardiac rehabilitation, social support, and stress management training in coronary artery bypass graft patients
… three different treatment strategies in the rehabilitation of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) patients. Fifteen CABG patients were randomly assigned to one of three training groups: an outpatient cardiac rehabilitation exercise group (which met three times per week for three months); a …
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The effect of a 36-session Cardiac Rehabilitation Program on the Framingham Risk Score
Cardiac Rehabilitation is widely used in the United States to help individuals who have had a cardiac event that is approved by insurance companies. Factors that lead to the development of cardiovascular disease are lack of exercise, tobacco use, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol …
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