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Systematic Reviews of Rehabilitation
Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of types of rehabilitation.
Updated August 2011
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| Title: | Multidisciplinary rehabilitation for adults with multiple sclerosis |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Multiple sclerosis is a chronic neurological condition, which can cause multiple disabilities and limit participation in young adults. This review looked for evidence of MD rehabilitation in adults with multiple sclerosis. The authors concluded there wa... |
| Date: | Apr 2011 |
| Title: | Effectiveness of vocational rehabilitation intervention on the return to work and employment of persons with multiple sclerosis |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Major as well as minor disabilities, such as physical, psychosocial, environmental and memory/attention impairment, significantly affect the entering or the returning to work of persons with MS. The objective of this review was to assess the efficacy an... |
| Date: | Mar 2011 |
| Title: | Neuropsychological rehabilitation for multiple sclerosis |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Recently, new studies have challenged the historical view of MS merely as a demyelinating disease and made it evident that also widespread lesions of the nerves (axonal damage) and grey matter changes are central features of MS. This has emphasized the... |
| Date: | Mar 2011 |
| Title: | Surgical versus non-surgical interventions for treating patellar dislocation |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The patella or knee cap is a lens shaped bone situated at the front of the knee. It is incorporated into the tendon of the quadriceps muscles of the thigh and moves within a groove at the lower end of the thigh bone (femur). Patellar dislocation occurs... |
| Date: | Aug 2010 |
| Title: | Vestibular rehabilitation for unilateral peripheral vestibular dysfunction |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | People with vestibular problems often experience dizziness and trouble with vision, balance or mobility. The vestibular disorders that are called unilateral and peripheral (UPVD) are those that affect one side of the vestibular system (unilateral) and o... |
| Date: | Jul 2010 |
| Title: | Continuous passive motion following total knee arthroplasty in people with arthritis |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | This summary of a Cochrane review presents what we know about the effect of continuous passive motion (CPM) as a treatment to improve range of motion and function after knee replacement surgery. In people who had knee replacement surgery: - Continuous p... |
| Date: | Feb 2010 |
| Title: | Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Drug Addiction |
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| Publisher: | HealthInsite Topic Page |
| Description: | Links to systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of treatments for drug addiction |
| Date: | Sep 2009 |
| Title: | Habit retraining for the management of urinary incontinence in adults |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Urinary incontinence (inability to control the release of urine) is common in older people, especially those with physical or cognitive impairment. There is a variety of ways of curing or improving incontinence. Habit retraining involves identifying an ... |
| Date: | Aug 2009 |
| Title: | Assistive technology for rheumatoid arthritis |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | This summary of a Cochrane review presents what we know from research about the effect of assistive technology in people with rheumatoid arthritis. Unfortunately, only one trial met the inclusion criteria for the review. The study deals with assistive t... |
| Date: | Jul 2009 |
| Title: | Multidisciplinary rehabilitation for older people with hip fractures |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Hip fracture is a serious injury in older people and can contribute to their death or loss of independence. Normally surgery is performed and followed by care in a ward under the supervision of orthopaedic staff. Additional rehabilitation within the hos... |
| Date: | Jun 2009 |
| Title: | Psychological therapies for the management of chronic pain (excluding headache) in adults |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Many people have pain that lasts for a long time, and pain that is not relieved or cured by physical therapy or medicines. The search for a diagnosis and for pain relief is often long, discouraging, and even damaging. For some people the pain leads to p... |
| Date: | Feb 2009 |
| Title: | Physical conditioning programs for improving work outcomes in workers with back pain |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The main goal of physical conditioning programs, sometimes called work conditioning, work hardening or functional restoration/exercise programs, is to return injured or disabled workers to work or improve the work status for workers performing modified ... |
| Date: | Dec 2008 |
| Title: | Rehabilitation interventions for improving physical and psychosocial functioning after hip fracture in older people |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Following hip fracture and subsequent surgery, many older people suffer a decline in mobility, independence and quality of life. Social and psychological factors such as fear of falling, self-efficacy, perceived control and coping strategies are now tho... |
| Date: | Nov 2008 |
| Title: | Twenty-four hour care for schizophrenia |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Schizophrenia is a long-term, chronic, illness with a worldwide lifetime prevalence of about one per cent. It has a high disability rate and the cost to individuals, their carers and health services is substantial. Although the majority of people with ... |
| Date: | Sep 2008 |
| Title: | Care home versus hospital and own home environments for rehabilitation of older people |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | For a number of reasons, there has been an increased interest in providing elderly people with appropriate rehabilitation services. Not only are there more elderly people, but the importance of 'rehab' after a stroke, hip fracture, or an illness i... |
| Date: | Aug 2008 |
| Title: | Life skills programmes for chronic mental illnesses |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The majority of people with schizophrenia have a pattern of illness where they relapse and then have a remission. A significant number of these people become less able to look after themselves after each relapse and their lack of self-care and poorer ... |
| Date: | Feb 2008 |
| Title: | Multidisciplinary rehabilitation programmes following joint replacement at the hip and knee in chronic arthropathy |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Joint replacements are common procedures and treatment of choice for those with intractable joint pain and disability arising from arthropathy of the hip or knee. Multidisciplinary rehabilitation is considered integral to the outcome of joint replacemen... |
| Date: | Dec 2007 |
| Title: | Conservative management for postprostatectomy urinary incontinence |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The prostate is a male sex gland that surrounds the outlet of the bladder. Two main diseases of the prostate (cancer of the prostate, or benign prostatic enlargement) can be treated by surgery but some men suffer leakage of urine (urinary incontinence) ... |
| Date: | Feb 2007 |
| Title: | Lumbar supports for prevention and treatment of low back pain |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Lumbar supports (also called braces or corsets) are used in the prevention and treatment of low-back pain. This review is important because low-back pain is very common. Prevention and treatment are important both to people with back pain and to society... |
| Date: | Dec 2006 |
| Title: | Constraint-induced movement therapy in the treatment of the upper limb in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | This therapy involves constraining the non-affected arm to encourage performance of therapeutic tasks with the affected arm, which children normally tend to disregard. Two clinical trials showed positive trends in support of constraint-induced movement ... |
| Date: | Nov 2006 |
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