Vladimir Janda, MD, DSc: tribute to a master of rehabilitation.

The purpose of this presentation is to pay tribute to the life's work of Professor Vladimir Janda, a key figure in the 20th Century rehabilitation movement. An accomplished neurologist, he founded the rehabilitation department at Charles University Hospital in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He was one of the seminal members of the Prague school of manual medicine and rehabilitation that expanded its influence throughout Central and Eastern Europe.

Use of the Halstead Category Test as a cognitive predictor of functional recovery in the hemiplegic upper limb: a cross-validation study.

Current motor learning theory suggests that recovery in the hemiplegic upper limb partially depends on the client's cognitive ability to maximize sensory feedback in order to activate appropriate efferent motor pathways. Study 1 investigated the use of the Category Test as a predictor of functional recovery. Initial scores on the Upper Extremity Function Test and the Category Test explained 81% of the variance of the discharge Upper Extremity Function score (N = 29).

The third therapeutic revolution: behavioral medicine.

Behavioral medicine--and one of its progenitors, biofeedback--are expanding as the Third Therapeutic Revolution, supplementing surgery and pharmacology in treating human illnesses. Parallel development of nonscience-based therapies is a part of the same revolution. Labeling their positive results as "placebo effects" hides a greater truth: faith and trust play an enormous role in therapy.