#Rehabilitation Research

[market-insider]

Navigating the Landscape of Medical Rehabilitation Services

The global medical rehabilitation services market size is expected to reach USD 385.9 billion by 2030. Medical rehabilitation services are intended to reduce disability and optimize functioning in individuals with specific health conditions.

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The growth of the market is attributed to the rising geriatric population, the increasing prevalence of chronic conditions among adults, and the increasing number of children with developmental conditions. These factors are anticipated to increase the demand for the services due to the need for rehabilitation to prevent, treat, and manage these conditions. Rehabilitation services help to either minimize or slow down the disabling effects of chronic conditions in patients. For instance, according to the WHO as of July 2022, 1.71 billion people suffer from musculoskeletal conditions globally. These injuries are a leading cause of disability globally that limit the mobility and agility of patients leading to early retirement.

Medical rehabilitation helps to reduce hospital stays, thereby reducing healthcare expenditure, which is anticipated to boost market growth. Further, the increasing adoption of telerehabilitation services is projected to further drive the market due to the increased affordability and reduced costs. Increasing initiatives are undertaken by the government to increase the adoption of these services to fuel the growth of the market. For instance, Community Based Inclusive Development (CBID) program launched by the Indian Government in May 2021 aimed at providing training to rehabilitation workers with ground knowledge for managing cross-disability issues in disabled individuals working with ASHA and Anganwadi workers.

The increasing number of initiatives undertaken by the key players in the market in order to provide innovative solutions to the user is estimated to further drive the market during the forecast period. For instance, in October 2021, MindMaze Healthcare announced a partnership with Royal Buckinghamshire Hospital (RBH) for its MindPod platform targeted to treat motor and cognitive restoration in stroke patients. MindPod is an animated gaming environment developed by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's Department of Neurology that helps to repair the nervous systems after a stroke.

[spottedenchants]

**CR C3 Spoilers** So I was just reading “Just a Little Bit Longer, Love” in your TS series and in Chapter 3, when Essek’s teasing Caleb with all the names of his many aliases/disguises, you included: “Maybe Journey, or Seth?” Did you… did you somehow PREDICT his Cobalt Soul disguise???! 👀

okay short answer: no, not really xD

Seth (the name) is 100% from C3 ep94, and TS!Essek has had a Cobalt Soul persona in the bg of the the series for (irl) years. 'Prediction' feels like it requires some narrative foresight- I just wanted to make Essek do some community service xD

long answer with its own tl;dr:

One thing I like about fanfic is that it's a very fluid medium. One thing I like about writing TS as a non-chronological series is that fluidity is inherent to the 'overarching' story I am telling- it's like revisiting and revising memories. I'd like to think of TS as being canon-adjacent or canon-compatible, and I do on occasion edit minor details when something comes up in CR canon that I would like to include in the series. For example, the Nein Heroez is destroyed in Mighty Nein Reunited, so I went back through the series and renamed the ship to the Nein Heroez II because I thought the original getting destroyed was interesting while also still being very fond of its name.

'Seth' is not a name I came up with as an alias for Essek- that 100% came from C3 ep94. In fact, the original name I had there in Just a Little Bit Longer, Love was 'Tristan', an alias I have never used in TS save for that singular instance and thus far have not even drafted/planned anything for beyond a rough concept you can find on this post here.

THAT SAID (<- getting excited)

For the longest time, I have had TS!Essek doing Cobalt Soul work alongside Beauregard and Caleb in the background of the series (in the bg because idk how to write the work he is doing in an interesting way yet) and I am absolutely thrilled that Essek might be pursuing a similar path by 843 PD in CR canon AND that other people seem enthused about the idea too!

'Seth' as a concept (divorced from Cobalt Soul things) has helped me work through some open-ended tangles I've been picking at in my WIP pile for ages, such as Arc 2 TS!Essek being displeased when maintaining his persona of Phillip Sommer for prolonged periods of time. Phillip Sommer was drafted to be TS!Essek's main face in the Empire and thus his Cobalt Soul persona. However, all of TS!Essek's personas are gifted by his friends, kindly, yes, but gifted just the same, and that means none of them are Him- they don't look like him, their names don't sound like his, they are Different People. So 'Seth' slots in very nicely and I am Very excited to carve into TS!Essek's sense of self as it relates to 'Seth'.

TL;DR: While I do edit minor details like Tristan -> Seth, I am and have been a staunch supporter of Essek working with the Cobalt Soul for A While and I am so very excited to see others warm up to the concept so readily :D

[bumblingbabooshka]

Workforce Tuvok is my cringefail babygirl

[thepastisalreadywritten]

20 December 2018

For many years, Keanu Reeves has been secretly running a private foundation that helps aid children’s hospitals and cancer research around the world.

Reeves’ foundation funds cancer research and supports children’s wards and kids’ hospitals

During his younger sister Kim’s battle with cancer in the 1990s, Keanu Reeves was generous enough to give donations to numerous cancer charities and even went so far as to establish his own foundation in Kim’s honor, but the publicity-shy superstar didn’t even attach his name to it.

Keanu Reeves’ private foundation funds research into cancer, supporting both children’s wards and kids’ hospitals.

The star has never tried to claim credit for any of it.

In fact, nobody even knew he was doing this until Reeves told Ladies’ Home Journal back in 2009:

”I have a private foundation that’s been running for five or six years, and it helps aid a couple of children’s hospitals and cancer research.

I don’t like to attach my name to it. I just let the foundation do what it does.”

In 2008, Reeves also volunteered to man the phones at a Stand Up to Cancer telethon, and during a charity ice hockey match, he volunteered to be the goalkeeper, as the match was for “SCORE” (Spinal Cord Opportunities for Rehabilitation Endowment), which was founded in order to support players who suffered from spinal injuries.

Source: Anonews.co

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Let us now consider another trait of the average ex-convict which is of great significance. Without his knowledge or volition (except in extremely rare cases), he has the tendency to revert to previous states of living, or of development. In this connection it must be borne in mind that in prison the social, mental and emotional development of the criminal has been sharply arrested. As previously stated, the paucity of social, mental, sexual and emotional contacts prevents the young prisoner from achieving maturity, and prevents the further growth of even the older one. (The average prisoner of to-day is so young that it is wise, for the moment, to consider the problem from this point of view.) He comes out of prison, therefore, pretty much the same callow, immature person he was when he entered, with the additional handicap of having suffered a partial or total incapacitation or at least a weakening of his powers of adequate response to stimuli. Not only that, but in his raging hunger for the woman, he has inevitably raised her to a place of exaggerated importance in life: so much so that in the initial grip of his lust he is almost ready to grovel at her feet, helpless in the face of her power to appease his wild desire. Unable to face her unself-consciously, he is obliged to hide his passion behind a smirking mask of hypocrisy.

Worse yet, although he thinks of life and people as they were in the pre-prison years, the world and the persons in it have greatly changed. He finds, too, that he himself has greatly changed. For although he feels the same youthful needs and hungers, he finds himself unable to feel the same responses. He is overwhelmed by a sense of futility, of loss, of being out of touch with persons, events, life. It is partly a poignant nostalgia for the old days and an overwhelming regret for the lost years, the wasted mind and the unrecoverable wastes and losses of the prison years. He finds himself enswathed in layers of numbness caused by malnutrition and prison stupor.

He cannot feel anything except the most violent and exciting emotions or events or people. In his unconscious efforts to free his body and spirit of this coating of numbness (anhedonia, as Doctor Myerson calls it in his splendid paper on that subject), he will plunge himself and his friends into the most outrageously impossible situations (so strong is the unconscious urge to make his presence felt, to convince himself and his friends that he is actually alive). All of which helps to explain why it is that the average ex-convict, still in the clutch of prison stupor, seeks to pierce the anhedonic fog with artificial stimulations: drugs, fiery liquors, passionate women, the noisy, glittering gaiety of night clubs and speak-easies. To do this, of course, requires money. Usually penniless, but usually determined also to have the fling for which he has lusted so long, the average ex-convict may react in some of the following ways.

He may feel so cheated of the joys to which looked forward, so angry at the failure of life to compensate him for the ordeal of imprisonment, that he will turn like a hounded fox upon the environment which frustrates and badgers him and seek revenge at the point of a gun. I have heard any number of ex-convicts say (and they so nearly use the same words that it is practically a pattern):

"Listen! You know what prison is. You've been in the can yourself. You know what a man's up against when he comes out. I don't have to tell you. Well, here's the way it is. I went through hell for seven years. I hardly drew a comfortable breath the whole time I was there. I got lousy food, a stuffy cell, a rotten job where I couldn't even learn a trade, and had to take a lot of cheap crap from a lot of half-witted screws (guards) who wouldn't even dare to speak to me on the street, let alone try to bully me not out here, where it'd be man to man. All right. I went through all that torture. For what? For stealing a few lousy bucks from some rich bastard that's got as many dimes as Rockefeller. Even if it's wrong to steal everybody does it, judges and all; and what about guys like Sin- clair, who had Martin Littleton and a few million bucks to keep him from going to prison even if it's wrong to steal, that doesn't give the dirty bastards the right to keep me cooped up like a dog for seven years, half starved, never seeing a woman, never having a chance to live. Well, by Christ, I'm going to live now! And I don't give a good goddam where I get the money to pay for my fun only, somebody's going to pay, believe me. If any of them lousy screws had anything worth stealing, I'd certainly love to make them pay for it. But anyhow, I'm going to make up for those seven years. They ain't going to use me like a yellow dog for seven years and get away with it. No sir. They've had their laugh. Now I'll have mine at their expense and we'll see who laughs the loudest, or the longest, or the last."

He may break down completely out of sheer disappointment and a sense of the futility of all effort, and fall prey to a most fearful inferiority-martyr complex, taking flight into the prison stupor in which (consciously or unconsciously) he sought refuge during the prison years. I have seen such men: puling, whining, altogether weak and inadequate, their spirits broken by imprisonment and the inability to achieve readjustment. I have heard them say, "Jeeze, what can a guy do? They's no work, and a guy can't take a chance gettin' pinched under the Baumes Laws. If he's an ex-con they'll throw the whole book at him and bury him for life." Beaten, defeated by circumstances, these men are likely to become derelicts and drifters, eventually to land in institutions for habitual drunks, drug addicts, and other misfits who have to be supported by the long-suffering taxpayers.

Or he may become so egregiously dissatisfied with the new environment (which is uncomforting and embarrassing, which frustrates his desire for sexual pleasure and rich living) that he will commit crimes, even when he has a very sincere desire to reform, which are unconsciously motivated by a desire to return to the prison environment. This, at first glance, may seem incredible; but I am sure that a more careful consideration of it will reveal its fundamental truth. The ex-convict, let us say, finds himself unable to get work; he will not hit the bread lines; without money, he cannot keep up even the pretence of respectability which is necessary if he is to delude his immediate associates, who know nothing about his prison record.

This makes life dissatisfying, incomplete, humiliating. In the new world he has no place, no security, no reputation. What he seeks when unconsciously desiring to return to the prison environment is, not the hateful cell, not the stuffy shop, but the feeling of security, of safety, of freedom from the stress and strain of a life he finds too difficult. He seeks the old world to which he had become stuporously accustomed, in which he had a meager but definite place, a reputation, friends of his own kind, and those other things in life which help to bolster up the drooping ego.

The ex-convict, thus, is essentially the convalescent. Prison stupor, as I have tried to show in another chapter, is a very real and dangerous disease. Its deplorable after-effects - bodily and spiritual anemia and atrophy, anhedonia are not to be thrown off in a few weeks or months. In fact, I doubt if any man who has served even five years in prison will ever succeed in fully getting free of its griping clutch. The newly liberated prisoner, therefore, is like any patient just out of a hospital: he is weak and ineffectual a convalescent. He is able to go through the less complicated motions and gestures of living, but there is actually very little life and strength in his devitalized, desire-torn body. He is a hollow shell, a fuel-less engine. To revert to the original metaphor: the animal suddenly freed after long captivity will need a great deal of time and exercise before it recovers anything like the full use of its various faculties."

- Victor F. Nelson, Prison Days and Nights. Second edition. With an introduction by Abraham Myerson, M.D. Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., 1936. p. 257-262.

[research-and-survive]

I’have been accepted to my first conference 😳

[demadogs]

bitch thesis is so hard and ive barely started

[helthcareproducts]

Balmorex: A Respite for Back & Joint Pain

[neosciencehub]

India's Foray into BCI

India's Foray into BCI @neosciencehub #neosciencehub #science #BCI #braincomputer #neuralink #neurotechnology #IITKharagpur #technology #human #brain #BCISystems #India #research #scholars #IITPalakkad #IndianNeuroscientificInnovation #Rehabilitation

India’s contribution to the rapidly evolving field of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) is a testament to the nation’s burgeoning interest and capabilities in neurotechnology. With various institutions and research groups leading the way, India is positioning itself as an active participant in the global BCI landscape. Debasis Samanta: Bridging Technology &  Accessibility Dr. Debasis Samanta’s…

[yuwigqi]

HC an actual real forensic psychologist interviews Joker, and realizes he does not meet the legal requirements for being mentally unfit to stand trial (TRUE), and the jury finds he does not meet the requirements for criminal insanity (TRUE) and he is sentenced to death and just like actually successfully executed by Belle Reve Penitentiary.

Batman's official statement "I do not kill. However, I do not give formal statements in political issues, such as the death penalty. If Joker escapes, I will send him back to Belle Reve, regardless of whatever sentencing he receives. I am a Vanguard. I am not a New Jersey Apex Court Justice. Sentencing is outside my jurisdiction or personal interests. Thank you."

Orphan's statement is "I believe wholeheartedly in the sanctity of life. However, I am not opposed to euthanasia."

Red Hood gets hired as a literal Seasonal Summer Worker for Belle Reve, and stands guard.

Barbara Gordon gets hired as Belle Reve Archivist.

Duke Thomas speaks publicly about the Justice System's constant ignorance of the realities of Mental Illness, and the pathologization of acts of violence as mental illness, as well as how white men are frequently given passes for violence by the justice system.

The Joker is executed on April 1st. He is cremated, and his ashes are used in compost alongside goat and pig manure.

Dr. Harleen Quinzel is tried as well, and actually found criminally insane, and after 1 year in psychiatric hospital, and triweekly therapy, she has shown proof of improvement and rehabilitation, 2 years after that, her licensure is reinstated. Instead of going into patient practice, she does psychiatric research, and publishes several papers on the interactions of PTSD and psychotic disorders, as well as developing counseling treatments for domestic abuse and cult survivors.

"Jokes on You Day" becomes a national holiday.

[la-cocotte-de-paris]

What are your experiences with drugs?

Just weed tbh. But I never purchased anything, I'd just join the circle at parties. Haven't touched it in almost a year now just bc I've been in a different environment.

[market-insider]

Dupuytren's Disease Market Dynamics: A Comprehensive Report

The global dupuytren’s disease market size is expected to reach USD 5.87 billion by 2030. Dupuytren’s disease is a debilitating condition characterized by the abnormal thickening and shortening of palm tissue, leading to the formation of claw-like finger deformities. This projected market expansion highlights the growing recognition of the importance of effectively addressing and treating this condition. The industry presents lucrative prospects for stakeholders, such as pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, and healthcare providers to develop innovative therapies and interventions. As the prevalence of the condition continues to rise, there is an escalating demand for effective treatments that can improve symptoms and enhance patients' quality of life.

Dupuytren’s Disease Market Report Highlights

The type II disease segment dominated the market in 2022 due to its higher prevalence, more severe symptoms, and greater demand for treatment options

In addition, advancements in medical technology have focused on addressing challenges specific to type II Dupuytren's disease, leading to a wider range of effective treatments available for patients

By type, the treatment segment held a dominant revenue share in 2022 due to the increasing demand for effective treatment options to alleviate symptoms and improve the quality of life for individuals

The hospitals end-use segment held the largest market share in 2022 due to advanced infrastructure, specialized care, and referral networks

Europe established a strong regional position in the market in 2022. This can be attributed to factors, such as advanced healthcare infrastructure, increasing prevalence of the disease, and presence of key players driving innovation and access to treatment options in the region

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Consequently, intensified research and development efforts are anticipated in the near future, leading to advancements in treatment options and potential breakthroughs in managing Dupuytren's disease. In a recent study, adalimumab emerged as a potentially cost-effective treatment choice during the early stages of Dupuytren’s disease. The research findings suggest that this medication holds promise in effectively managing the condition while providing value for the investment. These results underscore the potential advantages of adalimumab as a practical and economically viable treatment option specifically for individuals in the early stages of Dupuytren’s disease. The growing awareness and understanding of the disease among healthcare professionals and patients, along with advancements in medical research and diagnostics, are driving the market expansion.

Improved detection rates and timely intervention have increased the demand for effective treatments. Endo Pharmaceuticals’ “Watching Education Unfold” campaign, featuring real patients, aims to raise awareness about Dupuytren’s contracture and educate the public and healthcare community about the condition and available treatment options. This initiative is expected to contribute to heightened awareness, early diagnosis, and improved management of contractures. In addition, significant advancements in medical technology and therapeutic approaches, such as injectable collagenase and minimally invasive surgical techniques, have played a crucial role in driving the market forward. Injectable collagenase treatment like Xiaflex has gained approval for Dupuytren's contracture in multiple countries, offering a less invasive alternative to traditional surgical procedures and leading to improved patient outcomes and shorter recovery times. These advancements in medical technology and therapeutics are significant contributors to the overall growth of the market.

[sciencesolutions]

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"In the way of suggesting remedies for these injurious features of the prison environment, I am afraid that I have very little to offer. One thing is certain; known homosexuals must be weeded out and segregated. Men must be given the recreation (preferably good physical exercise to be followed by bathing) and entertainment with which to make the present attractive enough so that there will be less need of escape-mechanisms like daydreams and "prison stupor." In certain parts of the world, or so I have read, after the prisoner has served a certain number of years, he is permitted to colonize in a guarded area where he may live a normal sexual life (as in Salvador, and, I believe, the Bilibid Prison Colony). I earnestly recommend this as, on the whole, the best remedy for sexually abnormal conditions and behavior in American prisons. In the meantime, only a very intelligent warden who is sufficiently a real person to win the complete confidence of the inmates, can make any headway against present conditions. For in the long run, the prisoners themselves are the only ones who can work out the solution of the problem. There is very little likelihood of their doing so at the present time, however, thanks to the type of warden and guard which predominates in our prisons. There is, therefore, very little probability that in the immediate future very much will be done, or even attempted, to improve conditions which, in nine cases out of ten, the prison officials will refuse to admit even exist."

- Victor F. Nelson, Prison Days and Nights. Second edition. With an introduction by Abraham Myerson, M.D. Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., 1936. p. 168-169.

[Nelson, like some other ex-convict reformers in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere, places a lot of faith on settler colonialism as a solution to prison issues. He views resettlement, farming, colonization, as making men strong and whole again in a strictly heternormative manner. The redemptive frontier is a common motif in American and Canadian society at this time. And he refers to real prison colonization schemes in the Philippines and Central America that used ex-convicts as settlers, just as in Australia a century before. Less common is Nelson's belief in prisoner self-government and participation in prison administration. In Bolivia, Mexico and a few other Latin American countries, a penal colony with prisoner self-government was a common type of reform prison.]

[research-and-survive]

I am lost

Starting a project that is completely new to you is super interesting, but there is always that really slow learning period...

I just started a neuro-rehabilitation project, which I think is awesome, but the thing is, I don't know how to do almost anything right now, which is frustrating!!

I studied signal and image processing in college, but didn't really used it for about 4 years. I thought it would be fine and it would be just remembering things... It is nothing like that, because this is so much more specific and I am just completely lost in all of this...

[demadogs]

if any of you are also wildlife documentary nerds do you have any good recs that focus on rehabilitation