PHYSICAL REHABILITATION

We included two new trials in this update (540 participants), for a total of eight RCTs (974 participants). Four RCTs were conducted in the United States, two in Sweden, one in China, and one in the United Kingdom. The studies looked at five types of chest physiotherapy: conventional chest physiotherapy; osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT, which […]

Physiotherapy (PT), today offers numerous and attractive career opportunities in the allied healthcare sector in India. A physiotherapy professional may choose to become a practitioner or academician and researcher, as per his/her aptitude and interest and be an integral part of the Public Health mechanism. What is Physiotherapy? As per Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, UK, […]

Using a combination of patient characteristics and laboratory data, a machine learning model was found to accurately predict COVID-19 severity, according to results of an analytical cross-sectional study published in Clinical Nutrition ESPEN. Between May 2020 and May 2021, researchers used purposive sampling to enroll patients aged 16 years and older who were hospitalized at […]

 06 Sep-2022 21:04 PM New Delhi: Ravindra Jadeja knee surgery is successful and the all-rounder will start rehabilitation soon.Earlier on Saturday before India’s Super Four clash with Pakistan, Indian head coach Rahul Dravid had announced that Jadeja sustained an injury in his knee and as a result, was ruled out of the ongoing Asia Cup […]

Overview Legionellosis varies in severity from a mild febrile illness to a serious and sometimes fatal form of pneumonia and is caused by exposure to the Legionella bacteria species found in contaminated water and potting mixes. Cases of legionellosis are often categorized as being community, travel or hospital acquired based on the type of exposure. Worldwide, waterborne Legionella […]

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a noncardiogenic pulmonary edema secondary to inflammation-related lung injury from a variety of causes. It is diagnosed clinically as it is characterized by acute onset bilateral pulmonary infiltrates associated with worsening dyspnea once cardiogenic pulmonary edema and alternate causes of acute hypoxic respiratory failure are ruled out. Pulmonary infiltrates in […]

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The name “Pickwickian syndrome” was coined after a fictional obese character named Joe in Charles Dickens’s novel the “Pickwick Papers” [1]. There has been an inexorable rise in the number of cases of obesity worldwide in the past four to five years. India is undergoing a rapid epidemiological transition, from an underweight to an overweight/obese population. It […]

The most known of all primary cardiac tumors is myxoma, which is most usually detected in the left atrium. As there are no physical signs or symptoms, a diagnosis is rarely made purely based on clinical evidence. Our study aims to investigate the case of post-operative left atrial myxoma with cerebellar signs. A 50-year-old woman […]

Single Leg Stance on a Towel Verywell / Ben Goldstein Ankle injuries often affect your balance. Balance activities can help prevent future injury. Do these towards the end of your rehabilitation. Fold a towel into a small rectangle and place it on the ground. Stand with the injured foot on the towel. Lift the uninjured […]

Jack Lambert, a consultant in infectious diseases, has called for the immediate halt of the present HSE plan to treat thousands of long Covid patients as he says the model is 18 months behind the science on the debilitating condition. Lambert, who has been at the forefront of research into long Covid in Ireland, said […]

New technique to detect lung’s ILd: Certain lung diseases can be diagnosed accurately with the help of new technique of cryobiopsy, a relatively new procedure for sampling lung parenchyma, the pulmonary experts opined at the Interventional Pulmonary workshop here today. “Certain lung diseases could be diagnosed accurately with the help of lung biopsies such as […]

Last week, H.R.8746 — Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Act of 2022 was introduced to ensure Medicare beneficiaries in inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) are able to access all skilled, medically necessary rehabilitation therapies that are most appropriate for their condition. This bill, also known as the “three hour rule bill,” would expand the current three […]

You are here: 02 September 2022 A paper reviewing the merits of telerehabilitation for Chronic Respiratory Disease has won one of the six Monash Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Faculty Early Career Researcher Publication Prizes 2022 (see detail of prizes in Monash intranet). The global review […]

Severe damage to the brachial plexus­ — the group of nerves that control the movements of your hands, arms and wrists­­­ — can leave your entire hand and arm paralyzed. While sports injuries, cancer and radiation therapy are risk factors for damage to the brachial plexus, motorcycle accidents account for nearly 70% of injuries that may […]

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread around the globe. The most common symptoms associated with this are usually respiratory, but different central nervous system manifestations have been reported. There are many cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) post-COVID-19. However, only a few simultaneous afflictions of COVID-19 with GBS have been reported. Therefore, our study aims to investigate a case […]

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Objective We aim to assess the awareness and evaluation pattern among physiatrists regarding cancer rehabilitation and associated barriers to access. Design The present study is a cross-sectional study in the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR) Association Annual Meeting in Puerto Rico that used a 10-item questionnaire to summarize physiatrists’ clinical patterns with their persons diagnosed […]

Pictured L to R: Angela Bedford, Haylee Granberry, Brianna Smoot, Carol Dunmon. Paris Regional Medical Center is proud to announce the certification of its cardiac rehab program by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR). This certification is recognition of Paris Regional’s commitment to improving the quality of life of patients by enhancing […]

A home-based exercise program had no effect on dyspnea in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who had already completed pulmonary rehabilitation (PR); however, the program did improve exercise capacity and was beneficial based on patient reports. These were among study findings published in CHEST. Most patients with COPD do not maintain gains made […]