Systematic Reviews of Rehabilitation

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of types of rehabilitation.

Reviewed July 2009

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Title:   Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Drug Addiction
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of treatments for drug addiction
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Assistive technology for rheumatoid arthritis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This summary of a Cochrane review presents what we know from research about the effect of assistive technology in people with rheumatoid arthritis. Unfortunately, only one trial met the inclusion criteria for the review. The study deals with assistive t...
Date:   Jul 2009
Title:   Multidisciplinary rehabilitation for older people with hip fractures
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Hip fracture is a serious injury in older people and can contribute to their death or loss of independence. Normally surgery is performed and followed by care in a ward under the supervision of orthopaedic staff. Additional rehabilitation within the hos...
Date:   Jun 2009
Title:   Twenty-four hour care for schizophrenia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Schizophrenia is a long-term, chronic, illness with a worldwide lifetime prevalence of about one per cent. It has a high disability rate and the cost to individuals, their carers and health services is substantial. Although the majority of people with s...
Date:   Apr 2009
Title:   Psychological therapies for the management of chronic pain (excluding headache) in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Many people have pain that lasts for a long time, and pain that is not relieved or cured by physical therapy or medicines. The search for a diagnosis and for pain relief is often long, discouraging, and even damaging. For some people the pain leads to p...
Date:   Feb 2009
Title:   Rehabilitation interventions for improving physical and psychosocial functioning after hip fracture in older people
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Following hip fracture and subsequent surgery, many older people suffer a decline in mobility, independence and quality of life. Social and psychological factors such as fear of falling, self-efficacy, perceived control and coping strategies are now tho...
Date:   Nov 2008
Title:   Effectiveness of vocational rehabilitation intervention on the return to work and employment of persons with multiple sclerosis.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Major as well as minor disabilities, such as physical, psychosocial, environmental and memory/attention impairment, significantly affect the entering or the returning to work of persons with MS. The objective of this review was to assess the efficacy an...
Date:   Aug 2008
Title:   Care home versus hospital and own home environments for rehabilitation of older people
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   For a number of reasons, there has been an increased interest in providing elderly people with appropriate rehabilitation services.  Not only are there more elderly people, but the importance of 'rehab' after a stroke, hip fracture, or an illness in gen...
Date:   Aug 2008
Title:   Life skills programmes for chronic mental illnesses
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The majority of people with schizophrenia have a pattern of illness where they relapse and then have a remission.  A significant number of these people become less able to look after themselves after each relapse and their lack of self-care and poorer f...
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Multidisciplinary rehabilitation programmes following joint replacement at the hip and knee in chronic arthropathy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Joint replacements are common procedures and treatment of choice for those with intractable joint pain and disability arising from arthropathy of the hip or knee. Multidisciplinary rehabilitation is considered integral to the outcome of joint replacemen...
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   Habit retraining for the management of urinary incontinence in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Urinary incontinence (inability to control the release of urine) is common in older people, especially those with physical or cognitive impairment. There is a variety of ways of curing or improving incontinence. Habit retraining involves identifying an ...
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   Vestibular rehabilitation for unilateral peripheral vestibular dysfunction
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   People with vestibular problems often experience dizziness and trouble with vision, balance or mobility. The vestibular disorders that are unilateral and peripheral (UPVD) are those that affect one side of the vestibular system (unilateral) and only the...
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Conservative management for postprostatectomy urinary incontinence
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The prostate is a male sex gland that surrounds the outlet of the bladder. Two main diseases of the prostate (cancer of the prostate, or benign prostatic enlargement) can be treated by surgery but some men suffer leakage of urine (urinary incontinence) ...
Date:   Feb 2007
Title:   Lumbar supports for prevention and treatment of low back pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Lumbar supports (also called braces or corsets) are used in the prevention and treatment of low-back pain. This review is important because low-back pain is very common. Prevention and treatment are important both to people with back pain and to society...
Date:   Dec 2006
Title:   Constraint-induced movement therapy in the treatment of the upper limb in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This therapy involves constraining the non-affected arm to encourage performance of therapeutic tasks with the affected arm, which children normally tend to disregard. Two clinical trials showed positive trends in support of constraint-induced movement ...
Date:   Nov 2006
Title:   Cognitive rehabilitation and cognitive training for early-stage Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cognitive training and cognitive rehabilitation are methods that aim to help people with early-stage dementia make the most of their memory and cognitive functioning despite the difficulties they are experiencing. Cognitive training involves guided prac...
Date:   Sep 2006
Title:   Multidisciplinary rehabilitation for adults with multiple sclerosis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Multiple sclerosis is a chronic neurological condition, which can cause multiple disabilities and limit participation in young adults. This review looked for evidence of MD rehabilitation in adults with multiple sclerosis. The authors concluded there wa...
Date:   Jun 2006
Title:   Rehabilitation for distal radial fractures in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Particularly in older women, a broken wrist (comprising a fracture at the lower end of one of the two forearm bones) can result from a fall onto an outstretched hand. Treatment usually includes putting the bone fragments back in place, if badly displace...
Date:   May 2006
Title:   Back schools for non-specific low-back pain.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   There is moderate evidence suggesting that back schools are more effective for pain and function than other conservative treatments if the patients with chronic low-back pain (LBP) are from the general public, primary or secondary care. There is conflic...
Date:   Nov 2004
Title:   Interventions for treating hallux valgus (abductovalgus) and bunions
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   When the big toe is abnormally deviated towards the other toes, the condition can become severe and be painful. Pressure on the joint can cause swelling (a bunion) with the formation of a fluid filled sac (bursa). A poor style of shoe may cause or aggra...
Date:   Sep 2003
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