Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

OBJECTIVE: To Identify evidence-based rehabilitation interventions for persons with non-specific low back pain (LBP) with and without radiculopathy and to develop recommendations from high-quality clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) to inform the World Health Organization's (WHO) Package of Interventions for Rehabilitation (PIR). DATA SOURCE: We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, National Health Services Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED), NIHR-HTA (Health Technology Assessment) Database, PEDro, the Trip Database, the Index to Chiropractic Literature and the grey literature...

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between adverse events (AEs) and critical events (CEs) during and following rehabilitation in cancer patients post hemopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) or bone marrow transplant (BMT) and to identify if particular lab values are associated with increased risk of AEs or CEs. DESIGN: A retrospective chart review (2012-2017) of hospitalized patients ages 18-75 years with cancer diagnosis and BMT or HSCT receiving rehabilitation services SETTING: Urban Midwest tertiary, research and academic hospital...

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OBJECTIVE: To test the feasibility of objective assessments using the TekScan MatScan pressure mat plantar pressure measurement as a time-effective screening service for Parkinson's disease (PD) with and without freezing of gait (FOG) history. DESIGN: A prospective cross-sectional study. SETTING: The largest medical center in southern Taiwan. INTERVENTIONS: Not applicable. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Plantar pressure measurements including average peak pressure (PP), contact distribution (CA), and pressure time integral (PTI) in static and dynamic conditions as well as clinical scores during off-medication states...

OBJECTIVE: The aims of this study were to investigate the psychometric property of the Timed Up and Go Obstacle (TUGO) test in people with stroke. DESIGN: Cross-sectional design SETTING: University based neurorehabilitaion laboratory PARTICIPANTS: Twenty-eight people with stroke and 30 healthy older adults INTERVENTION: Not Applicable OUTCOME MEASURES: The TUGO (obstacle heights: 0, 5, 17 cm) test completion times, Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA) score, ankle dorsiflexor and plantarflexor muscle strength, Berg Balance Scale (BBS) score, Narrow Corridor Walking Test (NCWT) completion time, Timed Up and Go (TUG) test completion time, and Community Integrated Measure...

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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the feasibility, discriminative and convergent validity, and inter-rater reliability of a lower limb tactile function and two body awareness assessments in children with upper motor neuron (UMN) lesions. DESIGN: Cross-sectional psychometric study SETTING: Pediatric rehabilitation center PARTICIPANTS: Forty individuals with UMN lesions (mean age 11.7 years, SD 3.4 years; 27 girls) and 40 neurotypically developing children of the same age participated...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether proprioceptive accuracy measured with the Joint Position Sense (JPS) in patients with chronic neck and low back pain is impaired exclusively in affected areas or also in distant areas, not affected by pain. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: Interdisciplinary outpatient rehabilitation clinic for back and neck pain. PARTICIPANTS: Patients with chronic neck pain (n=30), patients with chronic low back pain (n=30) and age- and sex-matched asymptomatic control subjects (n=30)...

OBJECTIVE: To examine the effects of bilateral robotic priming combined with mirror therapy (R-mirr) versus bilateral robotic priming combined with bilateral arm training (R-bilat), relative to the control approach of bilateral robotic priming combined with movement-oriented training (R-mov) in patients with stroke. DESIGN: A single-blind, preliminary, randomized controlled trial. SETTING: Four outpatient rehabilitation settings. PARTICIPANTS: Outpatients with stroke and mild to moderate motor impairment (N = 63)...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate changes in clinicians' use of evidence-based practice, openness toward evidence-based practice, and their acceptance of organizational changes after a rehabilitation hospital transitioned to a new facility designed to accelerate clinician-researcher collaborations. DESIGN: Three repeated surveys of clinicians before, 7-9 months and 2.5 years after transition to the new facility. SETTING: Inpatient rehabilitation hospital...

OBJECTIVE: To examine associations between social participation, fatigue, and aphasia severity using patient-reported outcome measures, and to examine associations between demographic/diagnostic variables and fatigue in people with aphasia. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of patient-reported outcome measures using a Bayesian framework. SETTING: Urban rehabilitation research hospital. PARTICIPANTS: 67 participants with chronic aphasia (mean age = 54...

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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether prosthetic prescription differed by gender and the extent to which differences were mediated by measured factors. DESIGN: Retrospective longitudinal cohort study using data from Veterans Health Administration (VHA) administrative databases. SETTING: VHA patients throughout the United States. PARTICIPANTS: The sample included 20,889 men and 324 women who had an incident transtibial or transfemoral amputation between 2005 and 2018...

OBJECTIVE: To identify the extent and quality of fine motor skill alteration in patients with Dupuytren's disease (DD) utilizing an instrumented device measuring grip forces, beyond the commonly used measurement of contracture. DESIGN: Case-Control Study. SETTING: University Outpatient Clinic. PARTICIPANTS: Patients with DD (N = 27) and a contracture >45° (Tubiana Stadium II, III and IV) were included and compared to age-matched healthy controls (N = 27)...

OBJECTIVES: To synthesise evidence for 1) the effectiveness of exercise-based rehabilitation interventions in the community and/or at home following transfemoral (TFA) and transtibial (TTA) amputation on pain, physical function, and quality of life; and 2) the extent of inequities (unfair, avoidable differences in health) in access to identified interventions. DATA SOURCES: Embase, MEDLINE, PEDro, Cinahl, Global Health, PsycINFOOpenGrey, and ClinicalTrials.gov were systematically searched from inception to August 12th 2021, for published, unpublished, and registered ongoing randomized controlled trials (RCTs)...

Anti-Indigenous racism education and cultural safety training can help cultivate greater awareness and hold the potential to encourage western-trained researchers to work in solidarity with Indigenous partners to resist the structural status quo. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview and author reflections of an immersive educational series "The Language of Research: How do we speak? How are we heard?". The series was developed by a Canadian group that included an Indigenous Knowledge Keeper, non-Indigenous researchers, and parent partners, all of whom have training or experience in westernized research and/or health care...

OBJECTIVE: The first aim of this study was to determine whether the use of computers, internet, and computer assistive technology (AT) increased social participation after tetraplegia spinal cord injury (SCI). The second aim was to determine if racial or ethnic disparities of technology use was experienced. DESIGN: A secondary analysis of data collected by the National Spinal Cord Injury Models Systems Study (NSCIMS), an ongoing observational cohort study, was performed on a sample of 3096 participants who experienced a traumatic tetraplegic injury...