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Telerehab Proven Effective After Total Knee Replacement
One of the challenges of telemedicine for the past several decades has been the tendency for its supporters to align it with some health services without a natural fit. This is to say, those requiring one-on-one, live physician and nurse interactions. I have now come across one type of service, post-operative physical therapy, that seems to be a natural for telemedicine. A recent article discusses an example of a successful telerehab program (see: Telerehab Works After Knee Surgery) In a noninferiority trial, telerehabilitation fared at least as well as conventional therapy on all study outcomes after six weeks, including ...
Source: Lab Soft News - February 1, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Healthcare Business Healthcare Solutions Other than Lab Hospitals and Healthcare Delivery Medical Consumerism Medical Research Source Type: blogs

I'm Going to Miss Bill
It's 1:14 on a school night. My weekdays start around 6:30 am, so usually I would be asleep by now. But instead of sleeping I have been crying. I am crying because my grandpa Bill is going to die soon. I am crying because I am going to miss him. Bill is not my biological grandfather. He married my grandma Julie around the time my parents got married, in 1980. Bill and Julie have been staying with my dad for the past few years. During this time my grandma has been bedridden and only partly here mentally. Bill has been the seemingly more healthy and alert one, though they are both around 90. It was discovered over the Christ...
Source: Anastasia's Cancer Experience - February 1, 2011 Category: Cancer Source Type: blogs

Tectonic forces at work
We are about to witness the clash of two tectonic plates in health care. The creation of Accountable Care Organizations, combined with a movement towards capitated and other types of bundled payments, will be forces towards integration of care across the continuum. From primary care to tertiary care to skilled nursing and rehabilitation, principles of care management will combine with financial incentives to create ever more concentration in the health care market. Proprietary electronic medical records systems and "captive" doctor organizations will work towards reducing consumer choice in this new environment.You already...
Source: Running a hospital - January 31, 2011 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs

More Sessions And an End
I love the end of a project... and at the end of this blog post, the end has been achieved! Cheers to that because I can revert back to the creative, imaginative and deeper thinking which I much more enjoy. I've been feeling too reporterish lately... I have been a "good girl" going through the programming sessions and flipping some sessions into my itinerary. Apparently, this is a must because a few messages have floated through indicating the Combined Sections Meeting has over 8,000 registered. Although I am being responsible and I am sure many of you will be also, it is guaranteed that sessions will be closed due to the...
Source: MyPhysicalTherapySpace.com - January 30, 2011 Category: Physical Therapists Authors: Selena Horner Source Type: blogs

Multiple Sclerosis and the ‘New Normal’
As shock and horror over the tragic events in Tucson that left six dead and another dozen injured slipped into hope and praise for those who survived and assisted on that awful morning, a phrase familiar to far too many people living with multiple sclerosis began to slip into the nation’s consciousness: “New Normal.” Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ remarkable recovery in the trauma ward of Tuscon’s University Medical Center after being shot in the head inspired many as she opened her eyes and responded to doctor’s directions to complete simple tasks. Now, under the guidance of rehabilitation s...
Source: Life with MS - January 28, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: MS MS and Your Feelings MS and pain MS blog MS community MS lifestyle MS stress MS symptoms MS therapy Multiple Sclerosis Uncategorized healthy lifestyle social media family and MS gabrielle giffords Life with MS blog livin Source Type: blogs

In The Wide World: Houston, Texas
The website of Houston's TIRR rehabilitation center, lately in the news:The Institute for Rehabilitation and ResearchFrom the homepage:"TIRR treats people with a range of disabilities from complex conditions like brain injury, stroke, spinal cord injury, multiple trauma and amputation, to rehabilitation for conditions including multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, post-polio syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus."Here is a sample newsletter: Summer 2010
Source: BrainBlog - January 27, 2011 Category: Neurologists Tags: houston rehabilitation Source Type: blogs

An Open Letter to Nintendo
Dear Nintendo Wii, As an occupational therapist, I enjoy your products and have been excited about their potential applications for rehabilitation. I own a system myself, and while experimenting with it, noticed some features that could easily be improved to better suit the Wii's use in rehab. WiiFit, WiiPlay, and WiiSports are the games considered for this review.Therapists love being able to control and alter activities and the environment to provide the "just-right" challenge for their clients. Wii games would be much more usable by therapists if there was more input to grade the activities. This could be automatic grad...
Source: Occupational Therapy Notes - January 26, 2011 Category: Occupational Therapists Tags: treatments SNF Source Type: blogs

The Hot Topics of Exercise, Running and Cancer
The topic of exercise is all over the place lately! Maybe it has to do with 2011 resolutions... maybe it has to do with the simple fact a lot of people don't exercise frequently enough at the right intensity. Maybe it's hot because it's the one thing guaranteed to give a bang for the buck and improve health. Maybe it's hot because there's a little bit of a divide among professionals on designing an effective exercise plan/prescription for individuals. So, if you are headed to the Combined Sections Meeting, and exercise is a topic of interest... how about a few suggestions for a few sessions focusing on exercise? Think ...
Source: MyPhysicalTherapySpace.com - January 26, 2011 Category: Physical Therapists Authors: Selena Horner Source Type: blogs

Random Observations
If I wanted to live in Nunavut, that's where I'd be. But this year, the arctic has come to me. This relentless cold and snow -- snowfall after snowfall after snowfall, and not even an hour of an afternoon thaw to be found -- has me cranky, distracted, and unproductive. However, I don't think it's helpful to say that I have a "disorder." This winter is just for shit, and I'm in it, along with everybody else. However, as you probably know, there is an official disease for people who feel crappy in the winter. Apparently it really helps to blast yourself with bright lights, but a lot of people end up taking pills. I don't nec...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 26, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs

What is Detox?
Detoxing from drug or alcohol use is the first step in many alcohol rehabilitation programmes. The purpose of it is to clear the body of the toxins built up through the use of drugs and alcohol. In a rehab centre, you’ll undergo a managed detox. You can also detox outside a residential centre but you must seek medical advice first as it can be dangerous to do it without supervision. Withdrawal The first stage of detox is withdrawal, which includes both mental and physical reactions. Many individuals experience withdrawal symptoms of varying severity. The type of withdrawal symptoms a person will experience and their ...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - January 26, 2011 Category: Addiction Authors: Addiction Recovery Author Tags: Medical Detox Source Type: blogs

Top stories in health and medicine this morning, January 26, 2011
This series is brought to you by MedPage Today, Putting breaking medical news into practice.Welcome to Morning Rounds, where I preview the top health and medicine stories of the day.1. Giffords Remains in ICU With Fluid Buildup in Brain. Posttraumatic hydrocephalus has delayed U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ transfer to an inpatient rehabilitation facility.2. Surrogates’ Consent for Feeding Tubes Not Always Realistic. Surrogate decision makers for dementia patients often opt for feeding tubes without having realistic expectations about outcomes.3. Counseling Aids Sleep in Older Insomniacs. A short course of beha...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 26, 2011 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Kevin Tags: Morning rounds Source Type: blogs

Pulling it all together – biopsychosocial assessment
Over the past little while I’ve been writing about how a comprehensive pain assessment can be carried out. Today it’s time to pull that information together to develop a formulation, or set of possible explanations for why this person presents in this way at this time – at least for one or two aspects of his presentation. For example, if the person’s pain is low back pain, where surgery has failed to improve the person’s pain, but he has maintained working in a teaching job where physical demands are reasonably light, but is having trouble with sleep, feels irritable, can’t manage thin...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - January 25, 2011 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: ACT - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Assessment Clinical reasoning Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Pain Pain conditions Professional topics Chronic pain coping strategies disability goal-setting Health healthcare Low back pain m Source Type: blogs

Interesting Recent Studies and Articles on Neuroplasticity, Cognitive Reserve, and Brain Fitness
This article from the Washington Post explains how neuroplasticity will help Rep. Gabrielle Giffords recover from her brain injury: brain reorganization after injury is far more common and extensive than previously thought … neuroplasticity depends to a great degree on experience — which is to say, what the brain is forced to do in the critical weeks and months after it is injured. When an area with a specific function is destroyed, the brain first attempts to recruit nearby cells, which are often doing similar tasks, to change and perform the function of the destroyed cells. . 2. In this study, Dr. Yaffe and her col...
Source: SharpBrains - January 25, 2011 Category: Neurologists Authors: Dr. Pascale Michelon Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness beta-amyloid blood-test brain-scan cognitive-decline cognitive-reserve Cognitive-Training detect-Alzheimer's-pathology neuroplasticity rehabilitation Traumatic-Brain-Injury Source Type: blogs

Difficult Decisions
By Stephanie Mensh. Watching the progress of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords brings back memories. My husband Paul Berger was a few years younger than Giffords when he had a massive stroke from a ruptured, bleeding aneurysm on the left side of his brain, leaving him severely disabled. I still vividly remember cheering for every small sign of recovery, like his giving a thumbs up when the doctor asked how he felt and the day he first sat in a chair. Paul’s brain surgery was performed in a downtown hospital. This was 25 years ago. He was in intensive care, then in a neurosurgery room for almost a month before being transferr...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - January 23, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Caregiving Gabrielle Giffords Source Type: blogs

Kathy Bates Takes on Drug Legalization
By David BoazThe new NBC drama “Harry’s Law” has a preposterous premise, but it does give Kathy Bates a chance to chew some scenery. In the pilot — to be repeated tonight at 8 p.m. — she’s defending a young black man facing jail time for drug possession. And she unleashes a tirade against the drug war and against an outmatched prosecutor. Conservative bloggers have complained because Bates’s character Harriet “Harry” Korn said that the idea of drug decriminalization ”was first raised by conservative Republicans . . . when the party had thinkers, before it was hij...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 22, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: David Boaz Tags: General drug legalization Harry's Law Kathy Bates rush limbaugh Source Type: blogs

Retired Army Trauma Surgeon Dr. John Holcomb To Lead Houston Care For Congresswoman Giffords
Well-known former Army trauma surgeon Dr. John Holcomb will be coordinating care in Houston for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, at both Texas Medical Center and TIRR Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital.
Source: Inside Surgery - January 22, 2011 Category: Surgeons Authors: Editor Tags: Medical News Wire Gabrielle Giffords John Holcomb Texas Medical Center TIRR Memorial Hermann Source Type: blogs

CMS Releases Proposed Rule on Medicare Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Prospective Payment System
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently released a display copy of a Proposed Rule that would update the Medicare inpatient psychiatric facilities prospective payment system (IPF-PPS) for discharges occurring during the rate year beginning July 1, 2011 through September 30, 2012. The Proposed Rule would also: Change the IPF-PPS payment rate update period to a rate year that coincides with a fiscal year; Propose policy changes affecting the IPF-PPS teaching adjustment; Rebase and revise the rehabilitation, psychiatric and long-term care market basket; and Make some clarifications and corrections to...
Source: Medicare Update - January 21, 2011 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Authors: Michael Apolskis Source Type: blogs

State Corporate Welfare Programs Under Fire
By Tad DeHavenOne positive outcome of the recession, as the states struggle to find revenue to spend, is that state subsidies to businesses are facing increased scrutiny. This week the New York Times reported that states are looking at reducing or ending programs that hand out taxpayer money to television and movie producers. In Pennsylvania, some last-minute handouts from outgoing governor Ed Rendell are under fire, including a $10 million state grant to rehabilitate a former Sony plant for new tenants. According to the Commonwealth Foundation’s Nate Benefield, this is the fourth time Pennsylvania taxpayers have subsid...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 21, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Tad DeHaven Tags: Tax and Budget Policy corporate welfare ed rendell indiana economic development corporation mitch daniels subsidies tom corbett Source Type: blogs

Sunlight Before Signing at Mid-Term—Above 50%!
By Jim Harper During his campaign for the presidency, then-Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said he would post the bills Congress sent him online for five days before signing them. It was a basic transparency promise that would help prevent rushed legislation containing parochial amendments, unexamined earmarks, and errors. This and other promises brought hails of applause. It was his first broken promise. President Obama signed the “Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009” into law the day after it reached him. I’ve tracked the promise on this blog, and in my November post noted President Obama’s improve...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 21, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jim Harper Tags: Government and Politics Law and Civil Liberties sunlight before signing transparency Source Type: blogs

For Concetta Tomaino the Music Plays On
Blogger Concetta Tomaino who participated in the December 1st Event is truly a disruptive woman as described in the post below. By Hope Ditto. We’re used to our Disruptive Women bloggers being on the cutting edge in their fields and doing amazing things every day. We’re used to them saving lives, fighting for those without a voice and revolutionizing the world around us. Still, it’s not every day that a major motion picture being featured at the world-famous Sundance Film Festival is directly connected to their work. Not that we’re bragging, but we feel pretty fortunate to call Dr. Concetta Tomaino, D.A., MT-B...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - January 21, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Alternative Medicine Disabilities Mental Health Institute for Music and Neurologic Function Music therapy Sundance Film Festival Source Type: blogs

Basic Facts About Alcoholism Treatment
Alcoholism causes a huge negative impact in the society. It is one of the top causes of death, violence and accidents across the world which is why the world of medicine gives this issue the utmost priority for medical interventions. Contrary to many beliefs that an alcoholic can do fine without a medical professional, alcoholism is in fact, another form of substance abuse. Moreover, the alcoholic is not the only one suffering if prompt treatment is not available. Everyone involved are likely to suffer as well. This is the reason why proper counseling would involve rehabilitating the alcoholic’s family members and si...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - January 20, 2011 Category: Addiction Authors: Addiction Recovery Author Tags: Opiate Treatment Source Type: blogs

A comprehensive pain assessment continued
One of the hallmarks of chronic pain is the effect on functional performance. It’s for this reason alone that an assessment of function needs to be a major part of any comprehensive pain assessment. This, however, is probably where agreement begins – and ends. Function is all about doing, and in this kind of pain assessment, what I’m interested in is how the person with pain goes about engaging in activities that are important and necessary to him or her. Like any measure, the sum weight a person can shift in a manual handling task means very little without some sort of context. I’m more int...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - January 19, 2011 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Assessment Pain Professional topics Research biopsychosocial Chronic pain Clinical reasoning disability function Health healthcare Occupational therapy pain management physiotherapy Psychology rehabilitation science Thera Source Type: blogs

Can Brain Fitness Innovation Enhance Cognitive Rehab and Driving Safety?
Today we share must-read insights from Katherine Sullivan, Director of the Brain Fitness Center at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and Peter Kissinger, President of the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Both of them will discuss their ongoing work and lessons learned at the upcoming 2011 SharpBrains Summit (March 30th — April 1st, 2011). The interviews below were conducted via email. — Katherine Sullivan is the Director of the Brain Fitness Center at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. 1. Katherine, how would you define “brain fitness” vs. “physical fitness”? In our context (helping active duty ...
Source: SharpBrains - January 19, 2011 Category: Neurologists Authors: Alvaro Fernandez Tags: Brain Fitness Industry Cognitive Neuroscience AAA-Foundation AAA-Foundation-for-Traffic-Safety Army Medical Center Brain Fitness Center at Walter Reed Brain Fitness Center at Walter Reed Army Medical Center brain training tools brain-fitne Source Type: blogs

In Search of Health
I come to praise medical care, not to defend it. The praise is justified for providing relief of pain and suffering, for saving lives of the injured, for rehabilitation of the sick and disabled, for amelioration of chronic disease processes, for participating in the increase of life expectancy and for expanding the boundaries of knowledge for the biomedical sciences. But medical care suffers from an excess of praise. Praise originates with expectations, fuels expectations and arouses pride in the recipient. Pride clouds vision and forsakes purpose to yield enterprise that is not always of use or capable of providing relief...
Source: Fixin' Healthcare - January 18, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Health Sickness Source Type: blogs

Adventures in Serial Casting Part II: Review of the Evidence
This article listed known indicators and contraindications to tx along with the level of evidence for each, however, a confounding variable to this information is that some factors that were exclusion criteria for some studies were inclusion criteria for others. Given the wide variability, comparison of RCTs was unable to be performed in this review. Timing is a decision that has wide variability in each study. Saracco Preissner states (but does not reference) that there is no indication how long after injury casting is effective or when a person is too far removed from injury to benefit. It is stated that "most" advocate ...
Source: Occupational Therapy Notes - January 17, 2011 Category: Occupational Therapists Tags: treatments acute care research Source Type: blogs

Heroin Addiction Detox and Withdrawal
Heroin addiction is one of the most complex things to deal with and to overcome. The individual who abuses heroin is prone to have a weakened nervous system that usually is familiar with the exposure to this kind of drugs. During the detoxification process, the symptoms of withdrawal tend to be agonizing and difficult. Within the first twelve hours of being admitted into a rehab center, the drug addict starts to experience withdrawal symptoms that seem to get worse as the hours peak. It can go on for up to four days and these heroin addiction detox symptoms will include extreme nausea, diarrhea, and pain in the abdomen are...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - January 17, 2011 Category: Addiction Authors: Addiction Recovery Author Tags: Heroin Treatment Source Type: blogs

New Brunswick Autism Services: Pre-School 2 Thumbs Up, School 1 Up & 1 Down, Adult Care 2 Thumbs Down
Harold L Doherty Speaking at the ASNB Meeting January 15, 2011 The Daily Gleaner/James West Photo We had a good turnout Saturday at the Wu Centre for a meeting to re-organize the Autism Society New Brunswick which has been dormant for 2 years after making huge gains in advocating for provision of pre-school and school autism services. The recent New Brunswick provincial election focused almost exclusively on financial and deficit issues with little discussion of social or health services. There will undoubtedly be pressure to cut the autism services currently provided. to pre-schoolers and students. On th...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - January 16, 2011 Category: Autism Authors: Autism Reality NB Source Type: blogs

Electric Vagus Nerve Stimulation Shows Promise for Treatment of Noise-Induced Tinnitus
Researchers from University of Texas at Dallas and spin-off company MicroTransponder Inc. are reporting in Nature a successful treatment of rats with tinnitus by using vagus nerve stimulation. MicroTransponder, a company still in a stealth mode, is working on a stimulator based on a technology called SAINT™ (Subcutaneous Array of Implantable Neural Transponders), a wireless neurostimulator thought to be effective for a range of conditions, such as pain management, stroke rehabilitation, tinnitus, and even anxiety. In the Nature study, investigators played sounds of specific frequency to the animals while vagus nerves...
Source: Medgadget - January 16, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Michael Source Type: blogs

Calling all Deaf Architects!
Are you aware of the fact that we have an architect who is Deaf in Baltimore, MD? He is the owner of Gardenia Victoria. I wonder if there are any other Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing architects in the USA? Do we know of any others? I contacted the architect and asked for a quick interview. Here’s the transcript from our conversation. 1) What is your name and where are you living currently? My name is Michael A. Gallagher and I’m in New Hampshire right now, doing a project. I’m speaking to you from my hotel room. 2) Awesome. How is that going? Very well. I’m designing a ne...
Source: Deaf Village - January 16, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: My name Tags: Deaf vm Source Type: blogs

Congresswoman’s recovery won’t be as simple as Lisbeth Salander’s
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest—the third book in the Stieg Larsson trilogy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo—left many readers believing that you can survive a bullet wound to the head without any residual neurological damage. According to the story, a small-caliber bullet entered Lisbeth Salander’s brain at the temple, and then stopped about 4 centimeters into the brain. In addition to bleeding, there were all sorts of bone fragments near the heroine’s entry wound and some were embedded in brain tissue. Her physical and cognitive recovery, subsequent to surgery, and near-immediate ability to go out and ...
Source: Consumer Reports Health Blog - January 14, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: ConsumerReports.orgConsumer Reports Health Blog Tags: Conditions & treatments Health experts Source Type: blogs

Final Call for Abstracts 16th Annual CyberPsychology & CyberTherapy Conference
June 19th to 22nd 2011 in Gatineau, CanadaThis year the Interactive Media Institute (IMI) and Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) are organizing the 16th Annual CyberPsychology and CyberTherapy Conference (CT16), the official conference of the International Association of CyberPsychology, Training, & Rehabilitation (iACToR). The abstract submission deadline is January 15th, 2011.To submit your abstract, register for the conference or obtain additional information, please visit the CT16 website at http://www.interactivemediainstitute.com/CT16.Note that abstracts will be published in a regular issue of the Journal ...
Source: Positive Technology Journal - January 14, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: Call for papers Cybertherapy Positive Technology events Source Type: blogs

UK Substance Abuse Treatment Programs Health Costs and Alternatives
Heroin abuse is on the rise but many in Britain are still looking for solutions in pills, medically approved opiates or opiate “high” suppressors to “fix” heroin addiction. Is this really the answer to substance abuse? The failures surround us. More opiates, more pills compound the addicts problem and give them a new chemical to be addicted to. In the UK there are a large number of addicts on substitute medications and too few abstinence focused drug treatments. Drug-free programs offer a person’s life back. The drug addict and alcoholic must learn how to deal with life in a competent manner a...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - January 14, 2011 Category: Addiction Authors: Addiction Recovery Author Tags: Opiate Treatment Source Type: blogs

Featured Chiropractors, Part 1
Chiropractors, also known as doctors of chiropractic or chiropractic physicians, sometimes get into the field after an injury leads them to a first-hand experience—and they’re left with a desire to help others heal as they have. See the chiropractors featured below and other chiropractors making an impact in social media, elsewhere on the Web, and in their communities in our Top Chiropractors profiles. @drKosmides George Kosmides, DC, offers chiropractic, acupuncture, and rehabilitation services at his Los Angeles–area business. You can read articles and watch videos about spinal issues and related news, as we...
Source: The Health Wisdom Blog™ (by OrganizedWisdom) - January 13, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Julie Bohlen, MBA-HCM, ELS Source Type: blogs

Autism Services in Stormy Economic Weather
Autism in New Brunswick: Where Are We Now?How Did We Get Here? Where Are We Going? ASNB Open MeetingSaturday January 15 at 10 am Wu Centre UNB Fredericton ASNB is holding an open meeting for anyone affected by autism in New Brunswick. The purpose of the meeting will be two fold: To re-organize the Autism Society New Brunswick, the provincial autism voice that fought very hard for the autism services we currently have in New Brunswick, and to summon the will, in challenging economic times, to ensure a future for autistic children and adults in New Brunswick. ASNB is fortunate to have Dr. Paul McDonnell&nbs...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - January 13, 2011 Category: Autism Authors: Autism Reality NB Source Type: blogs

Working out who does what: Teamwork at its best
I work in a large team of clinicians. We have clinicians from occupational therapy, physiotherapy, nursing, social work, clinical psychology and specialist medics with anaesthetic, musculoskeletal and occupational backgrounds. Teamwork is absolutely vital to our work. When we start to work with an individual, we work in much smaller teams of two or three: someone with a psychosocial flavour, another with a functional flavour, and (often) someone with an applied focus. While scouting around in my office I found an old book chapter from a book called “Pain Management. A Handbook of Psychological Treatment Approache...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - January 11, 2011 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Clinical reasoning Therapeutic approaches Pain Professional topics healthcare Chronic pain biopsychosocial pain management treatment Occupational therapy physiotherapy Psychology Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Source Type: blogs

Physical Therapist Tweep Presenters
Introducing what tweets look like... introducing a few tweeps... I am so not sure how this post will appear due to various monitor sizes... and I'm most definitely not tech savvy enough to make sure it has eye appeal, but here goes: Andy will be presenting on Saturday, February 12 from 1-3:45 pm. As he mentions in his tweet, the topic is a complicated patient. Want to hear the story of a guy pinned between the bumpers of 2 vehicles? All I can say is when you hear the beep, beep, beep - get out of the way! My deductive reasoning tells me the guy survived the incident. ...
Source: MyPhysicalTherapySpace.com - January 10, 2011 Category: Physical Therapists Authors: Selena Horner Source Type: blogs

It’s really all about the brain
Neuroscience is such a geeky area to study. And I have to say I didn’t really study the brain all that well in my undergraduate training all those years ago – but oh, how the worm has turned! It’s so exciting to see how basic science directly influences treatments that we can use for people who don’t have many pharmacologic options for their pain. While I don’t have really up-to-date papers today, I think the 2008 paper by Herta Flor presages some of the approaches we’re starting to use in clinical settings now, a scant three years later. Flor’s work has always been impressive R...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - January 9, 2011 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Biofeedback Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Coping strategies Pain Pain conditions brain training CBT Chronic pain Clinical reasoning disability neuroplasticity pain management phantom limb pain rehabilitation Research science Source Type: blogs

Autism Society New Brunswick Meeting Speakers Dr Tara Kennedy and Dr Paul McDonnell
Dr. Paul McDonnell and Dr. Tara Kennedy will be speaking at the Autism Society New Brunswick Meeting Saturday January 15, 2011 10 am at the Wu Centre UNB Fredericton. Tara Kennedy, MD, PhD, FRCPC, is a Developmental Pediatrician who works with children and families affected by autism in her position as Clinical Leader of Pediatric Autism Rehabilitation Services at the Stan Cassidy Centre for Rehabilitation in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Paul M. McDonnell, Ph.D., is a Professor Emeritus (Psychology) at UNB and a clinical child psychologist with a private practice in Fredericton who has had a special interest in both a...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - January 9, 2011 Category: Autism Authors: Autism Reality NB Source Type: blogs

Easter Seals Living With Disabilities Study
Most of us take everyday adult life for granted; we have a place to live, access to transportation and the opportunity to live independently. The same can most likely be said for those of us with adult children. The basics are covered. But what happens if you’re one of the millions of adults living with a developmental disability in this country? What if you’re the parent and caregiver to an adult child with a disability? How is your life different? Are the basics covered? When people with disabilities turn 21, they and their families are no longer eligible for the services and supports provided by law through the ...
Source: Highlight HEALTH - January 5, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Diana Gitig Source Type: blogs

Easter Seals Living With Disabilities Study [Highlight HEALTH]
Most of us take everyday adult life for granted; we have a place to live, access to transportation and the opportunity to live independently. The same can most likely be said for those of us with adult children. The basics are covered. But what happens if you’re one of the millions of adults living with a developmental disability in this country? What if you’re the parent and caregiver to an adult child with a disability? How is your life different? Are the basics covered? When people with disabilities turn 21, they and their families are no longer eligible for the services and supports provided by law through the ...
Source: Highlight HEALTH - January 5, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Source Type: blogs

The Crystal Meth Trap
Methamphetamine Effects As with many other Amphetamines, methamphetamine can be snorted, smoked, injected, and eaten. How it is introduced into the body has a lot to do with how hard and fast the effects take place and, to a degree, how damaging the drug is with each use. It can even effect how quickly the abuser becomes addicted. First Date Smoking the drug or injecting it intravenously, the user experiences an intense “rush” that lasts only a few minutes and is described as extremely pleasurable. The initial effects of meth can last from a few minutes to a half hour, until the body becomes more tolerant to th...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - January 5, 2011 Category: Addiction Authors: Addiction Recovery Author Tags: Meth Recovery Source Type: blogs

Occupational Therapy Job Opportunity in DC!
In partial fulfillment of my ongoing public service mission, I wanted to bring a job opportunity to everyone's attention. There is an interesting article in The Washington Examiner today that talks about the DC area Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services wanting to find someone who can teach yoga or tai-chi to children in the program.I am sure that educating at-risk children in stress management and situational coping strategies is probably a good idea. However, this isn't the only issue in the article that got my attention.According to the article, the Interim Director got some people suggesting other programs includ...
Source: ABC Therapeutics Occupational Therapy Weblog - January 5, 2011 Category: Occupational Therapists Tags: ABC Therapeutics OT practice Source Type: blogs

All about you and me: How health professionals influence pain management
This study looks at the use of the Pain Attitudes and Beliefs Scale with GP’s, or primary care providers. How long does it take to get there? – no, not kids in cars, but a look at the delays in referral for chronic pain management. Rules for doctors – and probably other health professionals – A repost of a wonderful set of instructions written by a doctor! Are these posts with links to my other posts helpful? Let me know – I love comments, and almost always respond. Don’t forget too, you can bookmark my blog, or you can subscribe via RSS or even email. Introduce yourself on my ‘Abo...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - January 2, 2011 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Education/CME research Therapeutic approaches biopsychosocial health healthcare pain management rehabilitation treatment Source Type: blogs

Luxury Rehab Centers are Key to Recovery
Luxury rehab centers are more successful than their bargain-rate competitors. The reason is simple: Luxury rehab centers are uniquely suited to meet each and every need of each and every client. The fact of the matter is that luxury rehab facilities can provide residents with the sort of material and emotional support on which all recovery must ultimately be based. In the rehabilitation process, there’s simply no substitute for a superlative level of service. The fact that you’re here, reading this, suggests that you already know what you stand to lose in the fight against addiction. Now it’s time to let a private l...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - December 31, 2010 Category: Addiction Authors: cor_sparkit Tags: Drug Rehab Information Source Type: blogs

What is Heroin Addiction Treatment Like?
There are a variety of different methods for treating a person with an addiction to heroin. The treatment for addiction to heroin is most effective if a person admits to the problem early on before serious complications and negative consequences develop. The best type of treatment is the one which will treat the person as well as the addiction simultaneously. The primary goal of a detoxification facility is to alleviate the withdrawal symptoms a person suffers when heroin is discontinued. While detoxification is not a “treatment” so to speak, it is often used in conjunction with other methods to rid the addict ...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - December 31, 2010 Category: Addiction Authors: Addiction Recovery Author Tags: Heroin Treatment Source Type: blogs

Alcohol Abuse is a Personal Issue
Alcohol abuse is a personal problem. By the same token, alcohol abuse treatment must be a personal process. The most effective alcohol abuse rehab facilities are those which serve the unique needs of their unique clients. In the end, there’s simply no better way to build a foundation for meaningful and lasting alcohol abuse recovery. You already know that alcohol abuse is a devastating disease. What might not be so obvious, though, is that alcohol abuse rehabilitation really can help to solve the problem. The day you enroll in a personalized alcohol abuse treatment program will be the day you start healing from the insi...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - December 31, 2010 Category: Addiction Authors: cor_sparkit Tags: Alcohol Rehab Information Source Type: blogs

Female Wounded Warriors
This study will use internet interviews using Skype to understand this life experience. Each woman will be invited to tell her story of how she adjusted to life as an amputee with the assurance of confidentiality. (more…) *This blog post was originally published at Suture for a Living*
Source: Better Health - December 30, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: DrRamonaBates Tags: Better Health Network Opinion Research Army National Guard Combat Veteran Dr. Ramona Bates Female Military Servicemembers Female Soldiers Female Wounded Warriors Janet Cater Military Healthcare Military Women Amputees Occupational Source Type: blogs

Medicinal Rehabilitation for Heroin Abusers Accessible At Drug Treatment Center
Compared to the use of other drugs, the addiction to heroin has comparatively stabilized in the last couple of years. This is according to the records and evidences collected by the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office at Wisconsin-one of the most progressive states of the Union, famed for its dairy industry. In spite of this overall stability there are certain regions which are still largely reported to creating nuisance. These regions include the Racine area and Madison. These particular areas are also reported to have a high amount of trafficking where a high number of youth are also addicted to drugs. The s...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - December 30, 2010 Category: Addiction Authors: Addiction Recovery Author Tags: Heroin Treatment Source Type: blogs