Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation
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Arch Phys Med Rehabil · May 2007
Recovery of function in skeletal muscle following 2 different contraction-induced injuries.
To determine if the proliferation of myogenic cells is equally important to recovery of contractile function after 2 different types of contraction-induced muscle injuries. ⋯ The mechanisms that underlie recovery after injuries caused by repeated lengthening contractions and injuries caused by a single lengthening contraction are different. The differences may be important when planning targeted rehabilitation strategies for each type of injury.
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Arch Phys Med Rehabil · May 2007
How gender impacts career development and leadership in rehabilitation medicine: a report from the AAPM&R research committee.
To examine the role that gender plays in meeting the medical academic mission by assessing career development, leadership, and research productivity among rehabilitation researchers. ⋯ Female rehabilitation researchers were less developed professionally than their male counterparts and saw themselves as disadvantaged. These findings have potential implications for attracting women into rehabilitation research and the rehabilitation research community's efforts to sustain its academic mission, to improve research capacity, and to meet the needs of the 52 million people in the United States with disabilities.
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Arch Phys Med Rehabil · May 2007
What patient attributes are associated with thoughts of suing a physician?
To address a neglected research area: the attributes of rehabilitation patients associated with "thoughts of suing a physician" (S-MD). ⋯ Anger (P<.001), mistrust (P<.001), a focus on compensation (P<.001), addiction (P<.001), severe childhood punishments (P<.001), having attended college (P<.001), and other patient variables were associated with thoughts of suing a physician.