Publications by authors named "Jean-Luc Poindessous"

Aincourt's musculoskeletal medical care and rehabilitation department cares for people injured in the Ukrainian war who have undergone traumatic amputations. Professionals and patients alike face a number of challenges: language and cultural barriers, remote living conditions, and sometimes associated post-traumatic stress disorder.

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In a rehabilitation department, different professionals are involved in the overall care of a person who has undergone an amputation. While some are more concerned with the patient's physical needs and others more with his or her psychological needs, each is a link in the rehabilitation chain, linked by the subject concerned and by certain more transversal caregivers, such as the nurse.

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The therapeutic education program for amputee patients at Aincourt includes a wide range of workshops on pain management, sport, medication, nutrition and more.

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Arteritis and trauma are the most frequent causes of amputation. Rehabilitation management is divided into three phases: the immediate post-operative phase, the pre-prosthetic phase and the prosthetic phase.

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In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, psychologists from various departments of a hospital centre in the Paris region intervened with the establishment's nursing and non-nursing staff. They gathered testimonies related to the experience of the first wave of this health crisis. They offer their interpretation of the event, which highlights the climate of uncertainty that reigned, both in its health and political dimensions.

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Home automation in the area of disability is a rapidly developing field. A hospital rehabilitation unit and a university institute of technology have formed an experimental partnership with the aim of improving patient care management. This collaboration resulted in the development of a control interface in a hospital room equipped with certain home automation systems, opening up perspectives for the return home of patients with a disability.

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In functional rehabilitation service, the dietician, as educator, contributes to preventing recidivism and return to independence. A hospital team demonstrates the benefits of collaboration with dietitians in coordinated care for patients with various pathologies causing functional impairment.

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Swallowing disorders in neurological rehabilitation are common and important as they can have harmful consequences. A multi-disciplinary hospital team was created to study ways of preventing their occurrence. This article presents the areas to focus on and the main orientations of patient management.

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Fighting pain is one of nurses' duties. At Dreux general hospital, the medical and nursing staff of the physical medicine and rehabilitation department has gradually put in place since 2004 an information and treatment logbook. It constitutes a way of recording and assessing each patient's pain and consequently facilitates its treatment.

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