26 septembre 2012, Montréal, Québec

September 26 - 28, 2012, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

27 et 28 septembre 2012, Montréal, Québec

29 septembre – 2 octobre 2012 Calgary, Alberta

24 - 27 avril 2013, Victoria, Colombie-Britannique
Date limite de réception des propositions : le 30 septembre 2012

9 octobre 2012, Montréal Québec

October 10 – 13 2012 Brasilia, Brazil

February 25 - March 2, 2013, San Diego, CA, USA
Call for Papers closing date: October 12, 2012

October 12-13, Oklahoma City, USA

17 octobre 2012, Montréal, Québec

October 17 - 19, 2012, Bloomington, Minnesota, United States.

October 17 – 20, London, United Kingdom

October 18 - 20, 2012, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

October 20 – 22, 2012, London, United Kingdom

25 - 26 octobre 2012, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec

27 novembre 2012, Montréal, Québec

Des scientifiques ont mis au point une méthode qui permet à des enfants atteints de paralysie cérébrale d'améliorer leurs mouvements, leur tonus musculaire et leur posture. La technique ABR (Réadaptation biomécanique avancée) a également été conçue pour être enseignée aux parents. Les équipes d'ABR, y compris celle au CHU Sainte-Justine, est composé de médecins sportifs, de physiothérapeutes et de massothérapeute, qui développe un programme d’exercices qui s'attaquent directement aux distorsions musculosquelettiques.

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh think that walking to an audible beat may be useful in rehabilitation for people with Parkinson’s disease and similar disorders. This study, published in PLoS One, reports on the effects of different audio or visual cues on the walking gait of healthy adults. Researchers now want to test the effect of cues of people with Parkinson’s.

A pilot study looking at a new discharge strategy, led by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, indicates that phone calls and conversations with a medication coach seem to keep a patient on the road to recovery. The authors followed stroke patients who were discharged from the hospital with two or more changes in their medications between admission and discharge. Their findings were recently published online in the journal BMC Public Health.

The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) has published practical guidelines to assist clinicians in assessing treatment efficacy in patients who experience a fracture while on medication for osteoporosis. The objective of the practical guidance is to provide a clinical pathway whereby physicians can ascertain whether a patient has failed to respond adequately to an anti-osteoporosis treatment. As a result, doctors will be able to define treatment failure more effectively, and take appropriate action.

The Clinical Practice Committee of the American Congress of Rehabilitation sponsored this supplement to address two critical, related issues for the rehabilitation field: how to develop clinical rehabilitation research to generate useful, high-quality evidence and how to use evidence to improve rehabilitation practice. In four articles, supplement authors tackle challenges, such as identifying treatment effects and how study design decisions can impact the internal and external validity of research findings.

Since the publication of the ‘Guidelines for the rehabilitative management of elderly people who have fallen’ there has been a wealth of new research evidence, national and international guidelines relating to the prevention of falls in older people. This update to the guidelines is intended to provide a physiotherapy-focused summary of the current evidence and to supplement standards of practice.

Cardiac rehabilitation (CR), a multidisciplinary program consisting of exercise, risk factor modification and psychosocial intervention, forms an integral part of managing patients after myocardial infarction (MI), revascularization surgery and percutaneous coronary interventions, as well as patients with heart failure (HF). This systematic review seeks to examine the cost-effectiveness of CR for patients with MI or HF and inform policy makers in Singapore on published cost-effectiveness studies on CR. Overall, all the studies supported the implementation of CR for MI and HF. However, comparison across studies highlighted wide variability of CR program design and delivery.

This review provides a synthesis of research reporting the trauma treatment costs and factors associated with higher treatment costs in high-income countries. Across the 27 studies identified by the authors, the median per patient cost of acute trauma treatment was $22,448. However, there was variability in costing methods used.

The objective of this study was to determine the nature and frequency of acute pain assessment in Canadian pediatric hospitals and factors influencing it. Pain assessment practices and pain intensity scores documented during a 24-hour period were collected from 3,822 children aged 0 to 18 years hospitalized on 32 inpatient units in 8 Canadian pediatric hospitals. The mean standardized pain intensity score was 2.6/10, but 33% of the children had either moderate (4–6/10) or severe (7–10/10) pain intensity recorded. Results highlight the need to effectively manage pain in this population.

In this clinical commentary, the authors recommend that the professional who coordinates the athlete's post-concussion healthcare should focus efforts upon a comprehensive assessment and tailored treatment plan specific to the athlete's post-concussive symptoms.

This study evaluates the efficacy of light path coupled with tele-assistance service for preventing unintentional falls at home in a frail elderly population. It showed that use of light path coupled with tele-assistance was significantly associated with the reduction in falls at home.

This study assessed prognostic factors for pain intensity, disability, return to work, quality of life, and global perceived effect in patients with Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain (CNLBP) at short-term and long-term follow-up. The authors reviewed relevant studies and found methodological weaknesses in many. They report on associations between different factors and short- and long-term disability.

Parkinson's disease (PD) eventually leads to decreased physical activity, an indicator of frailty. The authors speculate that PD results in frailty through reduced physical activity. They assessed physical activity in a group of women with and without PD and found that physical activity influences frailty in females without PD. In PD females, disease management may be a better indicator of frailty than physical activity.

The long-held assumption that younger children recover better from brain injury than older children or adults has been challenged by recent studies. A number of rehabilitation approaches that produce benefits in adult stroke and cerebral palsy populations may be applied to children with other acquired brain injuries. The authors review rehabilitation approaches that have been applied to children with acquired brain injuries, or hold promise for future applications.

This paper discusses literature findings on the impact of pre-stroke degenerative cognitive impairments (pre-stroke dementia) on post-stroke rehabilitation outcomes. The literature reviewed emphasizes how cognitive performance at stroke onset can give indications about the anticipated level of post-stroke functional independence.

This review examines ways in which robot-driven gait technology could be improved in order to achieve better outcomes in gait rehabilitation. The authors conclude that active subject participation in robot-driven gait therapy is vital to many of the potential recovery pathways and is therefore an important feature of gait training. Higher levels of subject participation and challenge could be promoted through designs with a high emphasis on robotic transparency and sufficient degrees of freedom to allow other aspects of gait such as balance to be incorporated.

Persons with disability from spinal cord injury (SCI) are subject to high risk of pathological events and need a regular followup even after discharge from the rehabilitation hospital. To help in followup, the authors developed a web portal for providing online specialist as well as GP support to SCI persons. The portal was introduced in the regional healthcare network but usage was low. The authors undertook this study to find out why and found that while GPs appreciated the service, when they needed to ask for help from the specialist, it was still much easier to make a phone call.

This study compared patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) who received speech and language therapy (SLT) to those who did not, with naming ability serving as the outcome measure. The results suggest that SLT may have a beneficial impact on naming ability and the authors recommend that a randomized controlled trial be undertaken.

The purpose of this study was to test the feasibility of conducting a randomized controlled trial to study the effectiveness of self-managed computer treatment for people with long-standing aphasia after stroke. The authors found that self-managed computer therapy for aphasia was feasible and that it would be possible to recruit sufficient participants to conduct an appropriately powered clinical trial.

The aim of this review was to determine if interventions for age-related visual problems improve functional ability following stroke. The authors searched relevant Cochrane trials registers but found no studies for inclusion in the review. They state that evidence relating to the management of patients (from the general population) with age-related visual problems is available from other Cochrane reviews and is likely to be the best evidence available for making treatment decisions.

The James Lind Alliance (JLA) Tinnitus Priority Setting Partnership (PSP) published these top ten research uncertainties for tinnitus agreed by patients and clinicians. They hope the list will be a catalyst for more tinnitus research and encourage funders and researchers to address the selected priorities. Top of the list: What management strategies are more effective than a usual model of audiological care in improving outcomes for people with tinnitus?

Leisure participation was assessed using the Children's Assessment of Participation and Enjoyment (CAPE) and Quality of Life (QoL) using the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL). The authors found that meaningful and adapted leisure activities appropriate to the child's skills and preferences may foster QoL.

The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which sociodemographic characteristics and hardiness explain coping in 243 adults living with a spinal cord injury. In addition, the study examined which predictors of coping explain biopsychosocial adaptation.

Return to work (RTW) after long-term sick leave can be a long-lasting process where the individual may shift between work and receiving different social security benefits, as well as between part-time and full-time work. This is a challenge in the assessment of RTW outcomes after rehabilitation interventions. The aim of this study was to analyse the probability for RTW, and the probabilities of transitions between different benefits during a 4-year follow-up, after participating in a work-related rehabilitation program.

The authors interviewed 10 members of a stroke association aged 39-56 who had returned to work following a stroke. This mainly exploratory study turned up some interesting research ideas that need to be elaborated on in future studies.

ConcussionsOntario.org is the website of the Concussion/Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Strategy, which aims to improve the recognition, diagnosis, and management of concussion/mTBI in Ontario. The Strategy is sponsored and led by the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation in collaboration with many partner organizations across Ontario, across sectors. The Strategy uses research to impact professional education, guidelines and standards of practice, and policy development.

The website of the Brain Trauma Foundation features a wealth of information of interest to the public and healthcare professionals. Research reports, practical concussion checklists and guidelines are among the offerings.

Les chapitres de cette nouvelle édition ont été écrits en mettant l’accent sur la pratique plutôt que sur la théorie. Quatre nouveaux chapitres ont été ajoutés, sur la stratégie de l’étude de cas, l’évaluation économique, les approches participatives ou encore l’approche dite réaliste. La seconde partie de l’ouvrage présente quelques études de cas choisies pour montrer clairement comment les concepts qui auront été exposés sont employés dans la pratique. Ces chapitres recouvrent plusieurs domaines disciplinaires et proposent divers exemples de pratiques évaluatives.

Dans la présente brochure, vous apprendrez comment un programme d’activité physique soigneusement planifié peut vous aider à maîtriser votre arthrite. Vous trouverez également de précieux conseils ainsi qu’une liste détaillée d’activités physiques et de formes d’exercice recommandées aux personnes arthritiques.

Pour une 2e année consécutive, l'Institut Raymond-Dewar (IRD) est inscrit au parcours culturel provincial avec l'Exposition sur l'évolution des prothèses auditives. Des visites guidées accessibles en LSQ auront lieu le 29 septembre, entre 10h et 17h, entrée gratuite par le 3700, rue Berri, Montréal.