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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Rehabilitation -- Research"”.
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Expanding the role of functional mri in rehabilitation research
… reproducibility. As fMRI becomes a prominent research tool for rehabilitation studies involving repeated measures of the human brain, more quantitative and stable fMRI contrasts are needed. This dissertation enhances quantitative measures to complement BOLD fMRI. These additional markers, …
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Perceptions of the Psychological Rehabilitation of a Student-Athlete with an injury in Sport at the NCAA Division I Level : A Narrative Approach of Student-Athletes and Athletic Trainers
… administer both physiological and psychological rehabilitation. Research has surfaced regarding the need of athletic trainers to also focus on the mental aspects of recovery (Barefield & McCallister, 1997; Gordon, S., Milios, D., & Grove, J.R., 1991; Grindley, E.J. & Zizzi, S.J., 2005). The …
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Virtual Reality Frontiers in Bipolar Disorders: A Recovery Oriented Cognitive Rehabilitation tool.
Background: Cognitive impairment is a fundamental rehabilitation outcome for people with mental disorders. This represents a barrier to achieve clinical, personal and social outcomes essential for a good quality of life. In line with the WHO innovation objective are increasing the use of …
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An Ethnographic Case Study of a Deaf Workforce Collective
… new theoretical plans of action for current rehabilitation professionals seeking to mediate the high rates of Deaf unemployment seen in the body of rehabilitation research. This ethnographic study utilizes a purposeful sample of Deaf career postal employees from Houston, to develop an …
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The efficacy of a supported employment program model on the employment of individuals with mental handicaps
… from a national SE data bank maintained by the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RR TC) of Virginia Commonwealth University. Separate path models were estimated for consumer job stabilization and consumer job maintenance. Major contributors to job stabilization were on-the-job …
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Functional, Psychological and Community Integration Changes Over Time in Persons With Major Burn Injury
… by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. Subjects in this study included adults over 14 years of age who met the American Burn Association's criteria for a major burn injury. The Total Body Surface Area burn across the measurement periods in these subjects ranged …
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Participants' Perspectives On the Feasibility and Benefits of An Intensive, Task-Specific Intervention For Individuals With Chronic Stroke: A Qualitative Analysis
… care, yet the majority of rehabilitative research fails to take into consideration patient perspectives. Patients can and should provide valuable insight on intervention processes. The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility and benefits of a novel, intensive, task specific …
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Positive psychological change in people with rheumatoid arthritis
Most research on patients with chronic medical conditions, including Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) have focussed on the negative impact of living with these conditions. More recent research has highlighted that some people experience Positive Psychological Change (PPC) in response to traumatic or …
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Beyond Clinical Measures: A Mixed-Methods Study of a Systematized Voice Therapy Protocol for Perioperative Rehabilitation of Benign Vocal Fold Lesions
… period in which adherence to voice rest and rehabilitation protocols is critical to wound healing and recovery. Despite this, no systematized perioperative voice therapy protocol exists, and the patient experience during this recovery period remains largely unexplored. This dissertation …
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Modifications and upper extremity orthotics for the Lofstrand crutch
… the latest National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) Mobility Device Report, there are an estimated 566,000 persons who use crutches in the US. During Lofstrand crutch mobility, irregular loads are placed upon the upper extremities during quadrupedal gait. During …
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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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Motion coordination and control in the development of a gait rehabilitation system
… to be associated with rapidly deconditioning. Rehabilitation techniques that afford patients the ability to begin reconditioning through walking sooner may ultimately enhance their return to a better quality of life. To assist the functional recovery of such patients, an appropriate afferent …
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The Effectiveness of Biopsychosocial Interventions at the Dallas Spinal Rehabilitation Center: Applying the NIDRR Logic Model
… The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research has developed a program evaluation framework, the NIDRR logic model describing and assessing the relationship between planning, implementing, and evaluating outcomes in rehabilitation service environments, such as the Dallas …
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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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Examination of the Burn Model Systems and the Multicenter Benchmarking Study Outcome Measures Using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
… to work together to improve the outcomes of rehabilitation interventions. Though the main outcome measures for both datasets were meticulously devised and demonstrate good psychometric properties; the question remains whether or not these measures collect data that encompass the entire …