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Welcome back to our free evidence-based Rehabilitation Reference Center Update. You are receiving this newsletter because you are a subscriber of CINAHL and/or Rehabilitation Reference Center. Please share this with your colleagues, students, practitioners and others who would appreciate awareness of this information.
Rehabilitation Reference Center™ (RRC) is an evidence-based clinical reference tool for use by rehabilitation clinicians at the point-of-care. RRC provides physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists and rehabilitation students with the best available evidence to provide the highest quality care and improve patient outcomes.
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Rehabilitation Reference Center in Daily Practice
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Mr W is a 70 year old patient with leprosy being seen for physical therapy in the outpatient setting.
The physical therapist wants to find some information on treating patients with leprosy. She consults Rehabilitation Reference Center, keying in leprosy. She consults the clinical review "Leprosy".
She reads about leprosy, including presentation/signs and symptoms, causes, and risk factors. Then, she reviews the examination of a person with leprosy. After completing the physical and subjective examination, she goes on to read about the treatment of people with leprosy and the precautions to take.
Note: The above referenced Clinical Review is freely accessible to all readers of the Rehabilitation Reference Center Update.
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| Quick Overview |
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Caring for Patients with Visual Dysfunction
A variety of diseases and disorders can cause visual dysfunction (e.g., Parkinson's disease, optic nerve hypoplasia). Visual dysfunction affects visual acuity, visual field, color vision, night vision, and/or ocular motility, and can impact functional skills and abilities. Occupational therapy examination for patients with visual dysfunction include functional mobility, balance and sensory testing; visual screening tools, standardized visual skills tests.
Occupational therapy treatment typically includes visual processing component skills training and compensatory skills training.
You can read the Clinical Review on "Visual Dysfunction: Occupational Therapy" by logging into your subscription of Rehabilitation Reference Center.
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| Evidence-based Content Update |
Recently, the clinical review Coccydynia was revised following review under the systematic literature surveillance program. Information of value to speech therapy practice regarding coccydynia was a systematic review and case study.
The results of the systematic review indicate that coccygectomy completely relieves symptoms in approximately half of patients with coccydynia. Higher success rates are reported in patients whose pain was trauma related and patients with demonstrable coccygeal instability. The results of the case study indicate that acute coccydynia can related to precoccygeal calcific tendinitis.
We invite you to login to the Rehabilitation Reference Center to read new and updated clinical reviews as they become available. |
