Derick T Wade

..With changes and additions to take account of these deficiencies, the WHO ICF can be used as a powerful analytic and explanatory model of human experience and behaviour in any situation, not only in illness and disease...

..Outcome is best measured at the level of behavior (activities), with other measures being used to aid interpretation...

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..3) following placebo [ns]. Spasticity VAS scores were significantly reduced by CBME (Sativex) in comparison with placebo (P =0.001). There were no significant adverse effects on cognition or mood and intoxication was generally mild...

..To determine whether plant-derived cannabis medicinal extracts (CME) can alleviate neurogenic symptoms unresponsive to standard treatment, and to quantify adverse effects...

..To determine the efficacy of Sativex (USAN: nabiximols) in the alleviation of spasticity in people with multiple sclerosis...

..At all times we should balance the advantages of delivering the service in the patient's home against the obvious problems concerning practicality and the equitable use of scarce specialist staff time...

..The aim of this study was to characterize the recovery pattern of stroke patients in the first 6 months following stroke...

..In addition, we will investigate prognostic variables and feasibility (process evaluation)...

..The test-retest correlation varies from good to excellent. It can be used as postal questionnaire even if, as expected, the interviewer-administered method shows slightly better results...

..To identify the life goals of people with long-term neurological disabilities and to correlate them with measures of disability...

..To investigate the effect of increasing effort on energy cost as measured by oxygen consumption (VO2) during cycling exercise in individuals early after acquired brain injury (ABI)...

..Consequently few resources are allocated by purchasers to the process of making a rehabilitation diagnosis, in comparison to the huge resources devoted to achieving disease diagnosis...

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..Therefore re-establishing convalescence as a role might facilitate people in leaving the sick role, and rehabilitation should consider promoting convalescence...

..To determine the extent and characteristics of discharge delays of younger patients from acute hospital beds in Oxford, England...

..To determine the feasibility of the Structural Dimension Analysis of Motor Memory (SDA-M), a method derived from sports psychology, in establishing the mental representations of complex movements in patients after stroke...

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..To investigate the general effect of stretching on spasticity and to explore the complexity of stretching in patients with spasticity...

..A pilot evaluation of an occupational therapy intervention to improve self-care independence for residents with stroke-related disability living in care homes was the basis of this study...

..CONCLUSIONS: The RASP provides a practical and reliable assessment of sensory loss, which provides the clinician with a comprehensive picture of the patient's performance and can be used to inform and monitor rehabilitation and recovery...

..To examine the effect of additional cognitive demand on cycling performance in individuals with acquired brain injury (ABI)...

..To investigate the relationship between changes in life goals and progression of disabilities among subjects with neurological disorders over a period of four years...

..on the three most important questions to consider when collecting data, whether in day-to-day clinical practice or in research: Why should the data be collected? How should the data be collected? and How should the results be interpreted?..

..The solution is for purchasers and providers to develop mutual trust and, in the UK at least, to ensure that patients who do not need rehabilitation can be discharged quickly into appropriate support services...

..Education of the profession, public and purchasers should help in the long term. Meanwhile rehabilitation research would benefit from the development of stable research units of adequate size conjoined with clinical units...

..Further research into specific interventions should continue, but in addition there should be more research attention paid to the rehabilitation process itself...

..It suggests that the definition used in the Cochrane Glossary is too restricted and needs revision...

..To study how satisfied members of interdisciplinary rehabilitation teams are with goal planning meetings...