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...

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

..To determine whether a programme of multidisciplinary rehabilitation and group support achieves sustained benefit for people with Parkinson's disease or their carers...

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

..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...

..To establish the limits of intra-observer test-retest reliability of the Short Orientation-Memory-Concentration Test (SOMC), and to investigate the relationship of performance on the SOMC with a test of verbal memory...

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

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

..Finally, these findings suggest that gait adaptations maintain the ability to perform concurrent tasks while treadmill walking in healthy young adults...

..To evaluate the feasibility and effects of using motor imagery during therapeutic stretching in individuals with spasticity...

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

..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)...

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

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

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

..To determine whether combination therapy with lofepramine, L-phenylalanine, and intramuscular vitamin B-12 (the "Cari Loder regime") reduces disability in patients with multiple sclerosis...

..2, SD 4.9). The correlation (Pearson) of the PF score with the SF, Barthel and SOMC was respectively r = 0.59, r = 0.27 and r = 0.63. CONCLUSIONS: Phonological fluency testing is reliable in people with MS...

..To describe a practical method of setting personalized but specific goals in rehabilitation that also facilitates the use of goal attainment scaling...

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

..All measures showed more disability in patients using aids and those with sensory impairment...

..Aerobic TT presents the opportunity to alter a motor skill and reduce the effort of walking, whilst addressing cardiovascular de-conditioning, thereby, potentially reducing effort and fatigue for some people with MS...

..Our results suggest that activity changes in sensorimotor regions are associated with successful motor rehabilitation...

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

..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 investigate the feasibility and effect of a home-based exercise programme on walking endurance, muscle strength, fatigue and function in people with neuromuscular disorders (NMDs)...

..The precise nature and rate of risks with long-term use, especially epilepsy, will require larger and longer-term studies...

..00001 and p = 0.00087). The READL index appears to be a reliable and sensitive measure, with some evidence for validity, but further research is needed...

..To assess platelet activating factor (PAF) antagonists, potent neuroprotective agents in experimental cerebral dysfunction, in clinical practice...

..98). The scores obtained verbally and by writing were closely correlated (r = 0.99). CONCLUSIONS: The AMIPB used over 120 seconds with verbal responses is a reliable and reasonable test for major information-processing deficits...

..To examine the perceived clinical relevance, current practice and knowledge of somatosensory testing in three professional groups involved in the management and rehabilitation of stroke...

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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...

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..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...

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

..To explore the consequences of mental slowness in the daily life of patients with stroke...

..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?..

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

..Re-establishing participation in social life is an important aim of rehabilitation, but instruments to measure participation in people with aphasia are rare...

..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...

..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...

..To evaluate the reliability and validity of the Northwick Park Dependency Score as a measure of nursing dependency...

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

..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...

..To assess the effects of a mental practice intervention on recovery in stroke patients...

..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...