Rehabilitation outcomes in the older adult.

Numerous studies support the use of rehabilitative interventions in the older adult. Given the many fiscal challenges in health care today, it is of utmost importance that funding for rehabilitation result in fruitful outcomes. Specific rehabilitative interventions have been found to be very effective in the elderly and can be demonstrated through numerous studies.

Delivery of rehabilitation services to people aging with a disability.

The disabled elderly population continues to grow. Systems of care for the disabled elderly are vast, ranging from inpatient facilities to outpatient programs and home programs. Recent advances in technology allow us to reach patients in their homes through telemedicine.

Pain perception decrement produced through repeated stimulation.

Pain responses (pain detection and pain discomfort) to electrical dental stimulation were studied in 16 normal subjects. The repetition of the dental stimuli induced a significant and long-lasting (60 min) decrease in pain sensitivity at both sensory levels (after 60 min of repetitive stimulation, 79% increase in pain detection, P less than 0.0001, 45% increase in pain discomfort, P less than 0.

Sympathetic vasomotor changes induced by manual and electrical acupuncture of the Hoku point visualized by thermography.

Considerable evidence implicates sympathetic neural activity in acupuncture analgesia. However, the exact nature of these effects has not been specified in detail, and many experimental findings are contradictory. This study evaluated in normal conditions the specific sympathetic effects of both manual and electrical acupuncture applied to the same hand (Hoku) point.