The Alberta Infant Motor Scale as an Outcomes Measure of Gross Motor Abilities after Early Complex Cardiac Surgery.

To address the research hypothesis that the Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS) completed following complex cardiac surgery (CCS) is a useful outcomes measure this study determined: (1) AIMS scores at age 8 months after CCS; (2) predictive validity of AIMS at 8 months for Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development-III Gross Motor-scaled scores (GMSS) and diagnosis of cerebral palsy (CP) at 21 months; and (3) predictive demographic and surgical variables of AIMS scores. A prospective cohort study of 250/271 (92.3%) surviving children from Northern Alberta (born 2009-2020) who had CCS at age < 6 months determined AIMS scores at age mean (SD) 8.

A case of mistaken identity? The role of injury representations in chronic musculoskeletal pain.

Purpose: To explore how patients construe bodily injury, examine how injury representations change over the course of a rehabilitation program and how injury representations influence adaptation and recovery trajectories.

Methods: A case study method was used with qualitative interviews as the primary data source. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted three times over the course of a 12-week intensive interdisciplinary occupational rehabilitation program with one interview 1 month following discharge.

Clinician-patient agreement about the work disability problem of patients having persistent pain: why it matters.

Background: Studies from different fields documenting the differences between clinicians' and workers' representations have not elucidated where the differences exist or how they can be resolved.

Purpose: To define and describe scenarios depicting the differences between clinical judgment, workers' representations about their disability and clinicians' interpretations of these representations.

Methods: A multiple case-study design was used.

Health and illness representations of workers with a musculoskeletal disorder-related work disability during work rehabilitation: a qualitative study.

Introduction: Distinctions between disease and illness have been criticized for being too theoretical. In practice, however, it may help explain gaps in understanding and miscommunication between health care professionals and patients/injured workers, since each has their own perception of reality. To reduce the gap between health care professionals and patients in understanding the definition of disease, this paper documents general representations of health, illness and work-related musculoskeletal disorders and their influence on the work rehabilitation program.

Relationship between the margin of manoeuvre and the return to work after a long-term absence due to a musculoskeletal disorder: an exploratory study.

Purpose: The application of the margin of manoeuvre (MM) concept in work rehabilitation is new. It allows for variations in both health status and work demands, and the interaction between the two, to be taken into account. The objective of this exploratory study was to document the relationship between the presence of an MM in the workplace and the return to work (RTW), after a long-term absence.