Thursday, August 19, 2010

Internet searches for telerehabilitation

Telerehabilitation: using videoconferencing or internet video to provide rehabilitation. Broader search terms include telemedicine, telehealth and telestroke.

Pubmed

The following searches run in Hubmed, the friendlier younger sibling of Pubmed. The search looks for all the articles indexed in Pubmed, and it updates when you use it, so the results are current. Results are organized by date. Through the results you can link to abstracts of the articles, and some full text.

Telerehabilitation and…

Articles published in the last year
www.hubmed.org/search.cgi?q=%28telerehabilitation%29+AND+%28%22last+1+year%22%5BPDat%5D%29&x=6&y=7

Physical
www.hubmed.org/search.cgi?q=telerehabilitation+physical&sort=date

Brain injury or cerebral palsy
www.hubmed.org/search.cgi?q=%28telehealth+OR+telerehabilitation+OR+videoconference%29+AND+%28brain+OR+cerebral%29&x=12&y=9

Children
http://www.hubmed.org/search.cgi?q=telerehabilitation+AND+%28child+OR+pediatric%29&x=13&y=8

Speech
http://www.hubmed.org/search.cgi?q=telerehabilitation+and+speech

Teleassessment
http://www.hubmed.org/search.cgi?q=%28teleassessment%29+OR+%28videoconference+AND+physical+AND+assessment%29&x=7&y=7


Other searches


Google Scholar for articles published in 2009 to date.
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&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=
&as_ylo=2009&as_yhi=2010&as_sdt=1.&as_sdts=5&hl=en&


Cinahl (nursing and allied health journals) Telerehabilitation
web.ebscohost.com/ehost/resultsadvanced?vid=3&hid=13&sid=dc9cd71e-b9eb-4029-ac97-f5aefae97e49%40sessionmgr4&bquery=(AB+(telerehabilitation))&bdata=JmRiPWM4aCZ0eXBlPTEmc2l0ZT1laG9zdC1saXZl

Wikipedia definition:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telerehabilitation

Monday, August 16, 2010

Computer games in rehabilitation

With the availability of low-cost motion sensing hardware has come the opportunity for games that target segments of the market, such as rehabilitation users. An example is the development of Nintendo Wii http://www.nintendo.com/wii . Dr. Glenna Dowling of University of California at San Francisco has partnered with Red Hill studios http://redhillstudios.com/ to develop games specifically for individuals with Parkinson's disease and for children with cerebral palsy. This partnership resulted from two grants provided by the National Institutes for Health http://www.nih.gov/ for 1.1 million dollars. Read more... http://news.ucsf.edu/releases/red-hill-studios-ucsf-partnership-awarded-1.1-million-for-health-based-comp/