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Mobile Game-based Virtual Reality Program for Upper Extremity Stroke Rehabilitation
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2018
Here, we present a protocol to develop and apply a mobile game-based virtual reality program for the recovery of upper limb dysfunction in patients with stroke. The present study shows that the mobile program is feasible and effectively promotes upper limb recovery in stroke patients.
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Haptic/Graphic Rehabilitation: Integrating a Robot into a Virtual Environment Library and Applying it to Stroke Therapy
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2011
Recently, a vast amount of prospects have come available for human-robot interactive systems. In this paper we outline the integration of a new robotic device with open source software that can rapidly make possible a library of interactive functionality. We then outline a clinical application for a neurorehabilitation application.
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General Approach to the Physical Exam
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2023
Source: Jaideep S. Talwalkar, MD, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT The examination of the body is fundamental to the practice of medicine. Since the Roman Empire, physicians have described the connection between alterations in function of specific parts of the body and specific disease states and have sought to further scientific understanding to improve bedside diagnosis. However, in this modern age of increasing technology within medical diagnostics, it...
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Assessment of Physical Activity Intensity with Accelerometers and Oxygen Consumption
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2025
Here, we present a protocol to assess physical activity intensity levels measured with indirect calorimetry and two accelerometers (on the right wrist and waist) during an incremental walking-jogging test (from 0.84 to 2.37 m/s) on an oval track. The results show differences among the physical intensity assessed through those methods.
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Neuro-rehabilitation Approach for Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss
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2016
This article reports the development of a neuro-rehabilitation approach, "constraint-induced sound therapy (CIST)" for sudden sensorineural hearing loss. The aim of CIST is to prevent maladaptive cortical reorganization by using an enriched acoustic environment. CIST represents a safe, easy, inexpensive, and effective approach to treat sudden sensorineural hearing loss.
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Assessment and repeated measurement make rehabilitation an adaptive clinical process rather than a fixed program. Clinicians first identify impairments and functional goals, then use changes in performance to judge progress and adjust treatment. This feedback can align exercise, task practice, education, manual techniques, or assistive devices with the person’s changing needs and recovery over time.
Task-specific practice links treatment to the activities a person needs to perform. Repeated work on relevant tasks, combined with exercises that address strength, endurance, or movement, supports adaptation and more capable daily performance. This principle helps connect changes observed during treatment with functional goals such as independence, participation in work, or involvement in community life.
Goals and impairments determine which rehabilitation strategies receive emphasis. A person in musculoskeletal care may require a different combination of exercise, manual techniques, and task practice than someone receiving neurological or cardiopulmonary care. The shared clinical logic is to match interventions to functional limitations, measure outcomes, and modify the plan rather than apply one standardized sequence.
A plan generally starts by identifying impairments and setting functional goals, followed by selection of individualized interventions. Treatment may combine exercise, task-specific practice, education, manual techniques, and assistive devices. Clinicians then reassess movement, strength, endurance, or independence and use those findings to refine the plan. This cycle continues as needs and performance change.
Selection depends on the impairments being addressed and the functional goals being pursued. Exercise may target movement, strength, or endurance, while task-specific practice focuses on performance of relevant activities. Education, manual techniques, or assistive devices can be added when appropriate. Combining these options allows the plan to address both physical limitations and safer daily activity.
Physical rehabilitation is applied across musculoskeletal, neurological, and cardiopulmonary care, including recovery after injury, illness, surgery, or disability. Its outcomes may include improved movement, strength, endurance, independence, and safer daily activity. Beyond recovery, the same principles support prevention, long-term disability management, and research that tracks functional outcomes over time.