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Queenter Ondigo,Henry Rono
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Studies continue to report minimal (or negligible) institutional rehabilitation outcomes among the prison inmates serving various offences; particularly in developing countries. Reports indicate that the rate of recidivism and re-conviction is even more ...
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Sandra C. Thompson, Lee Nedkoff, Judith Katzenellenbogen, Mohammad Akhtar Hussain and Frank Sanfilippo
This narrative review explores relevant literature that is related to the challenges in implementing evidence-based management for clinicians in rural and remote areas, while primarily focussing on management of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and follow u...
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Doinita Oprea, Madalina Gabriela Iliescu, Elena Valentina Ionescu, Liliana Elena Stanciu, Lucian Petcu, Sorin Chiriac, Andra Maria Stefan, Diana Victoria Gidu, Antoanela Oltean, Viorela Mihaela Ciortea and Carmen Oprea
The rehabilitation tools that are designed to improve the function of patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) have various effects. The goals of rehabilitation are to prevent secondary complications, maximize physical functioning, and integrate them into ...
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Alessandro de Sire, Nicola Fusco, Elham Sajjadi, Lorenzo Lippi, Carlo Cisari and Marco Invernizzi
Inelastic compression (IC) has been proposed as a therapeutic option in the management of breast cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL). To date, no studies have investigated the reliability of IC in the rehabilitative management of BCRL. Thus, we aimed at eva...
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Tianyi Yang, Marcus White, Ruby Lipson-Smith, Michelle M. Shannon and Mehrnoush Latifi
Changing the physical environment of healthcare facilities can positively impact patient outcomes. Virtual reality (VR) offers the potential to understand how healthcare environment design impacts users? perception, particularly among those with brain in...
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Giuseppe Palestra, Mohamed Rebiai, Estelle Courtial and Dimitrios Koutsouris
This paper presents a rehabilitation system based on a customizable exergame protocol to prevent falls in the elderly population. The system is based on depth sensors and exergames. The experiments carried out with several seniors, in a day care center, ...
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Carlos Burgos-Jara, Hugo Cerda-Kohler, Esteban Aedo-Muñoz and Bianca Miarka
Eccentric resistance training that focuses on the lengthening phase of muscle actions has gained attention for its potential to enhance muscle strength, power, and performance (among others). This review presents a methodological proposal for classifying...
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João Monge, Gonçalo Ribeiro, António Raimundo, Octavian Postolache and Joel Santos
Health monitoring is crucial in hospitals and rehabilitation centers. Challenges can affect the reliability and accuracy of health data. Human error, patient compliance concerns, time, money, technology, and environmental factors might cause these issues...
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João Cenicante, João Botelho, Vanessa Machado, José João Mendes, Paulo Mascarenhas, Gil Alcoforado and Alexandre Santos
Alveolar ridge resorption is a natural consequence of teeth extraction, with unpleasant aesthetic and functional consequences that might compromise a future oral rehabilitation. To minimize the biological consequences of alveolar ridge resorption, severa...
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Hassan M. Qassim and W. Z. Wan Hasan
Rehabilitation is the process of treating post-stroke consequences. Impaired limbs are considered the common outcomes of stroke, which require a professional therapist to rehabilitate the impaired limbs and restore fully or partially its function. Due to...
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Wynette Redington
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The development of a strategic plan for an African village can seem a daunting task, especially if the village is one created from diverse beginnings and different cultural origins, where ethnicity, language and custom are not homogenous. In this a...
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Yaxin Mao, Lamei Yan, Hongyu Guo, Yujie Hong, Xiaocheng Huang and Youwei Yuan
Inertial measurement unit (IMU) technology has gained popularity in human activity recognition (HAR) due to its ability to identify human activity by measuring acceleration, angular velocity, and magnetic flux in key body areas like the wrist and knee. I...
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Fareed F. Alfaya, Ravi Shankar Reddy, Mastour Saeed Alshahrani, Batool Abdulelah Alkhamis, Ajay Prashad Gautam, Debjani Mukherjee, Raee S. Alqhtani, Hussain Saleh H. Ghulam, Saeed Al Adal, Mohammed A. M. Jarrar and Muhammed Sufyan
Sub-acromial Impingement Syndrome (SIS) is a prevalent shoulder pathology characterized by pain, muscle weakness, and altered joint position sense (JPS). This prospective study aimed to comprehensively assess the relationship between shoulder muscle stre...
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Mayara S. Siverio Lima, Alexander Buttgereit, Cesar Queiroz, Viktors Haritonovs and Florian Gschösser
This paper applies the Road Network Evaluation Tools (RONET) model to assess the economic impacts of urban pavement maintenance and rehabilitation in the city of Munster, Germany. The city?s road network includes main roads, main access roads, residentia...
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Akash Gupta and Adnan Al-Anbuky
Hip fracture incidence is life-threatening and has an impact on the person?s physical functionality and their ability to live independently. Proper rehabilitation with a set program can play a significant role in recovering the person?s physical mobility...
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Mohamed-Amine Choukou, Sophia Mbabaali, Jasem Bani Hani and Carol Cooke
There is a plethora of technology-assisted interventions for hand therapy, however, less is known about the effectiveness of these interventions. This scoping review aims to explore studies about technology-assisted interventions targeting hand rehabilit...
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Mariacristina Siotto, Marco Germanotta, Massimo Santoro, Chiara Di Blasi, Claudia Loreti, Simona Mastropaolo and Irene Aprile
Calcium deficiency is frequently observed in stroke survivors, but no data exist concerning the relationship between calcium and rehabilitation outcome in patients with stroke. Therefore, we examined in a group of subacute stroke patients if changes in t...
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O. Brian Oyegbile and Mi G. Chorzepa
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) requires that states have less than 10% of the total deck area that is structurally deficient. It is a minimum risk benchmark for sustaining the National Highway System bridges. Yet, a decision-making framework i...
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Ulrich A. Ngamalieu-Nengoue, Pedro L. Iglesias-Rey and F. Javier Martínez-Solano
The drainage network always needs to adapt to environmental and climatic conditions to provide best quality services. Rehabilitation combining pipes substitution and storm tanks installation appears to be a good solution to overcome this problem. Unfortu...
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Kalyan R. Piratla, He Jin and Sepideh Yazdekhasti
Transportation agencies are currently challenged to keep up with culvert infrastructure that is rapidly deteriorating due to lack of adequate maintenance and capital improvement. It is imperative for the transportation agencies to identify and rehabilita...
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