Service guidelines, models, and protocols for integrating rehabilitation services in primary healthcare in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa: a scoping review
CONCLUSION: This review discusses BRICS countries' rehabilitation service guidelines, models, and protocols for primary healthcare integration and implementation challenges. Rehabilitation professionals should rethink, realign, and apply existing models because of the lack of primary healthcare integration directives.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONThe integration of rehabilitation services in low-resourced and remote settings can be improved by involving community health workers and community rehabilitation workers in transdisciplinary teams.Peer support workers and community health workers can improve rehabilitation outco...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - December 9, 2023 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Lebogang Maseko Hellen Myezwa Natalie Benjamin-Damons Denise Franzsen Fasloen Adams Source Type: research
"Pain is one piece of a complex jigsaw puzzle" - experiences of raising a child with cerebral palsy who has pain
Conclusion: Parents of children with CP experience pain as one aspect of a bigger picture. They need help and support to cope with their child's pain, and professional helpers need to address the complexity pain is a part of.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONParents of children with cerebral palsy (CP) experience their child's pain as one piece in a jigsaw puzzle, and counseling needs to address the complexity rather than the separate parts of the picture.Health professionals should support parents in evaluation and management of their child's pain, as a feeling of competence in pain management is important to reduce parental...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - December 9, 2023 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Elisabeth R ønning Rinde Agneta Anderz én-Carlsson Reidun Birgitta Jahnsen Randi Dovland Andersen Source Type: research
Service guidelines, models, and protocols for integrating rehabilitation services in primary healthcare in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa: a scoping review
CONCLUSION: This review discusses BRICS countries' rehabilitation service guidelines, models, and protocols for primary healthcare integration and implementation challenges. Rehabilitation professionals should rethink, realign, and apply existing models because of the lack of primary healthcare integration directives.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONThe integration of rehabilitation services in low-resourced and remote settings can be improved by involving community health workers and community rehabilitation workers in transdisciplinary teams.Peer support workers and community health workers can improve rehabilitation outco...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - December 9, 2023 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Lebogang Maseko Hellen Myezwa Natalie Benjamin-Damons Denise Franzsen Fasloen Adams Source Type: research
Cross-cultural adaptation, reliability, and validity of the Sinhala version of the Cumberland Ankle Instability Tool: an instrument for measuring chronic ankle instability in Sri Lanka
CONCLUSIONS: The clinicians and researchers in Sri Lanka can use the CAIT-Sin for assessing and measuring CAI because its validity and reliability are confirmed.Implications for RehabilitationFunctional ankle instability is an ongoing chronic condition which presents for rehabilitation therapist.Outcome measurements are crucial in the rehabilitation of ankle sprains and it is important to administer these subjective outcome measures in their native language.The CAIT-Sin was found to have high internal consistency and excellent test-retest reliability.PMID:38062669 | DOI:10.1080/09638288.2023.2288938 (Source: Disability and Rehabilitation)
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - December 8, 2023 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Lakshmi Jayalath Kaveera Senanayake Menuja Deeghanu Charith Pathirana Source Type: research
The experiences and needs of people with dysvascular lower extremity amputations: a qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis
CONCLUSIONS: Having dysvascular lower extremity amputations is a complicated experience as not only was the pre-amputation pain relieved, but a new set of physical, emotional and social challenges would surface after the amputation. These synthesised findings serve as a platform to explore the factors behind the various experiences faced by these people and how healthcare professionals can help them in their adjustment.PMID:38062867 | DOI:10.1080/09638288.2023.2291552 (Source: Disability and Rehabilitation)
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - December 8, 2023 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Junyao Stefanie Cai Jie Xi Jassie Tan Jeanette Ignacio Source Type: research
