Clinical rehabilitation
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Clinical rehabilitation · Feb 2002
ReviewSpeech and language therapy for dysarthria due to nonprogressive brain damage: a systematic Cochrane review.
Dysarthria is a common sequel of nonprogressive brain damage (typically stroke and traumatic brain damage). Impairment-based therapy and a wide variety of compensatory management strategies are undertaken by speech and language therapists with this patient population. ⋯ There is no evidence of the quality required by this review to support or refute the effectiveness of speech and language therapy interventions for dysarthria following nonprogressive brain damage. There is an urgent need for good quality research in this area.
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Clinical rehabilitation · Feb 2002
Characteristics of injured children attending the emergency department: patients potentially in need of rehabilitation.
To provide an epidemiological overview of the characteristics of injured children and to compare hospitalized and nonhospitalized injured children to identify predictors of hospitalization and, with that, possible predictors of disablement. ⋯ Young traffic victims, severely injured children in terms of high ISS scores, and children with injuries affecting the head/neck/face or thorax/abdomen carry the highest risk of hospitalization.