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To examine the impact of comorbidities and complications on burn inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF) outcomes. A retrospective cross-sectional study. Inpatient rehabilitation hospitals. A total of 4572 patients with a primary diagnosis of burn injury from the Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation database from 2002 to 2010. Regression analyses were used to determine whether...
To study the effects of daily treatment time on functional gain of patients who have had a stroke. A retrospective cohort study. An inpatient rehabilitation hospital (IRH) in northern California. Three hundred sixty patients who had a stroke and were discharged from the IRH in 2007. Average minutes of rehabilitation therapy per day, including physical therapy, occupation therapy, speech...
To study the functional outcomes of patients with left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) who were receiving inpatient rehabilitation. This is a retrospective cohort study of adults with an implanted LVAD admitted to an acute inpatient rehabilitation unit (IRU) over a 14-month period from March 2010 through May 2011. A tertiary care hospital. This study included 11 patients with an implanted...
To document pregnancy outcomes of women with moderate-to-severe physical disabilities and to evaluate maternal and fetal outcomes compared with those of nondisabled 1:1 matched controls within the same hospital system. A retrospective matched cohort. A multidisciplinary outpatient reproductive health care clinic for women with physical disabilities, situated in an urban rehabilitation hospital...
To examine whether functional performance upon hospital discharge is influenced by pain in the region of the hip fracture or related to the fracture type. Prospective observational study. A 20-bed orthopedic hip fracture unit. Fifty-five cognitively intact patients (20 men and 35 women; ages 75.8 ± 10 years), 33 with a cervical hip fracture and 22 with an intertrochanteric hip fracture, all...
Residual limb pain is a common symptom in the lower extremity amputee population with a fairly broad differential diagnosis. One etiology of residual limb pain that has previously received limited discussion in the literature is that of vascular claudication. Increased awareness of this etiology is important given the prevalence of vascular disease in both the general population and in lower extremity...
To describe the accuracy of sonographically guided intra-articular hip injections with a linear array transducer. Retrospective review. Private outpatient clinic. A single experienced operator performed 11 ultrasound-guided intra-articular hip injections by using a linear array transducer. Intra-articular placement was confirmed with contrast agent and fluoroscopy. Assessment of injected...
Responsiveness and agitation are common targets for pharmaceutical intervention after traumatic brain injury (TBI) in children. This focused review presents a critical discussion of the limited literature available on the use of medications for disorders of consciousness and agitation in children with TBI. For disorders of consciousness, evidence from several small studies supports a potential benefit...
To assess the reliability of ultrasound (US) measures of the transversus abdominis (TrA) muscle in a sample of subjects with and without specific chronic low back pain and to test whether reliability is enhanced by using different abdominal muscle activation tasks, with use of a foam cube for US transducer stabilization or by averaging 3 measures on the same image. Cross-sectional repeated-measures...
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