Inpatient Rehabilitation is Effective for Severe Daily Activity Deficits Related to Chronic Low Back Pain.

Background And Objective: Chronic low back pain disability (CLBPD) is a syndrome that includes pain, disability, emotional impairments, and social problems. The study was conducted to examine the effect of an inpatient rehabilitation program on the performance of everyday life tasks (daily activities), and report on pain in CLBPD patients with primary activities of daily living (ADL) deficits.

Methods: In a retrospective cohort study, demographic and clinical data were retrieved from records of inpatients admitted consecutively to the program.

[THE CONTRIBUTION OF INPATIENT REHABILITATION IN ISRAEL TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF DAILY FUNCTIONING AFTER SPINAL CORD LESIONS].

Introduction: Spinal cord lesions (SCL) are usually followed by neurological and functional improvement. The neurological improvement is natural and improves the functional potential of the patients, while rehabilitation improves the realization of that potential. The functional change depends on the neurological change, and usually does not represent the contribution of rehabilitation alone to the functional improvement.

Assessment of ability realization using the 4th version of the Spinal Cord Independence Measure.

Context: Change in ability realization reflects the main contribution of rehabilitation to improvement in the performance of daily activities after spinal cord lesions (SCL).

Objective: To adapt a Spinal Cord Ability Realization Measurement Index (SCI-ARMI) formula to the new Spinal Cord Independence Measure version 4 (SCIM4).

Methods: Using data from 156 individuals for whom American Spinal Injury Association Motor Score (AMS) and SCIM4 scores were collected, we obtained an estimate for the highest possible SCIM4 given the patient's AMS value, using the 95th percentile of SCIM4 values at discharge from rehabilitation (SCIM95) for patients with any given AMS at discharge.

The role of comprehensive rehabilitation in the care of degenerative cervical myelopathy.

Study Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Objective: To find out if comprehensive rehabilitation itself can improve daily performance in persons with DCM.

Setting: The spinal department of a rehabilitation hospital.

The net contribution of rehabilitation to improvement in performance in patients with spinal cord lesions in five countries.

Context: Change in ability realization reflects the main contribution of rehabilitation to improvement in the performance of daily activities in patients with spinal cord lesions (SCL).

Objective: To assess the net effect of rehabilitation of patients with SCL and compare it between countries.

Methods: We calculated the Spinal Cord Ability Realization Measurement Index (SCI-ARMI) and its change from admission to rehabilitation to discharge, for inpatients admitted to SCL units in five countries, between 2016 and 2019.