This review discusses challenges faced by clinicians and researchers when measuring ambulation in individuals with central neurologic disorders within 3 distinct environments: clinical, laboratory, and community. Even the most robust…
Francois Bethoux, MD, Editor “Walking is man’s best medicine.” This quote, attributed to Hippocrates, illustrates how long health care professionals have been interested in ambulation. The therapeutic effects of walking…
Interacting with other people and the environment is fundamental to quality of life. Canes, walkers, and crutches increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of many individuals with neurologic disorders. Canes…
Gregory T. Carter, MD, MS, Consulting Editor The quality of any body of work is often directly correlated with the strength and vision of the leader of the group. This…
This article describes the evolution of vocational rehabilitation and the development of the rehabilitation counselor’s role as the generally accepted expert in forensic vocational rehabilitation assessment. The vocational rehabilitation process…
This article outlines the use of medical literature to support a physiatrist’s expert opinion in the development of a life care plan and proposes a basic ethical code of conduct…
Expert opinion on life expectancy must make reasonable factual assumptions, which entails finding a proper group to which the individual being assessed will be compared, as well as use of…
Significant progress has been made in assessing and managing neuropathic pain. Newer, more effective treatments with minimal side effects are available. Despite advances in treatments, neuropathic pain remains a multifaceted…
A life care plan may be useful to plan the needs of the disabled child with cerebral palsy. A cost analysis for a life care plan depends on the life…
The sequela of spinal cord injury (SCI) can provide a prototype for life care planning because the segmental design of the vertebrate body allows assessments to be quantitative, repeatable, and…
