Time for change: can empowerment be a solution to meet the perils of modern day working life?

Working life continues to undergo rapid change. This change creates greater demand and sophistication and causes employees to experience more pressure, professionally and personally. Thus, absences from work due to sickness and injuries increase.

The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the rehabilitation of individuals with severe functional impairments in a municipal care service system.

This article explores the development of a scheme to use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the training of individuals with severe functional impairments. Computers were used as an integral part of a rehabilitation programme for training, and the authors found that the resource was a useful addition to other treatment methods. This article describes the development and subsequent setting up of computers for training and how the study progressed.

Individual status at the start of rehabilitation: Implications for vocational rehabilitation programs.

Unlabelled: This research investigated the situation of 143 unemployed sick leavers at the start of vocational rehabilitation in Sweden. It is argued in this paper that in order to gain a meaningful picture of the vocational rehabilitation process it is necessary to know and understand something of individual differences and status at the onset. In doing so, assessment was carried out of the possible influence of one contextual factor and five individual factors on health, duration of sick leave and unemployment.

Assessment of Sitting in Children with Cerebral Palsy from Videofilm.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the reliability of two dependent measures, (1) counting of pathologic movements (CPM) and (2) the Sitting Assessments Scale (SAS). The measures were intended for use in clinical physiotherapy practice, to provide both quantifiable and qualitative information from videofilm concerning functional sitting in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Two separate groups of final term physiotherapy students (three students in each group) tested one technique each for interrater reliability.