Showing 14 results for Article type: Letter to Editor
Dr Peymaneh Shirinbayan, Dr Farin Soleimani,
Volume 0, Issue 0 (4-2024)
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In Iran, rehabilitation for children lacks a specialized curriculum and is typically only offered as part of a master’s or specialized doctoral program. Unfortunately, this field has no officially approved training course or educational framework. As a result, individuals who choose to pursue this specialization often do so out of personal interest, and their expertise tends to be self-taught. Currently, child rehabilitation primarily follows traditional methods and is limited to a few sessions per week at rehabilitation centers. However, there is an opportunity to improve both cost-effectiveness and rehabilitation outcomes. Parents and caregivers can actively participate in their child’s rehabilitation by leveraging family-oriented treatment methods and home-based care. Remote monitoring by experts can further enhance this approach. We propose a shift toward ‘remote rehabilitation’ for children. Additionally, we must address the unique challenges faced by children with chronic illnesses and newborns who have been hospitalized in intensive care units. These populations have emerged due to advances in medical care, leading to increased survival rates. Unfortunately, once these children leave the hospital, there is often inadequate supervision for their ongoing rehabilitation and management of complications. Mental health support for their families is also crucial during this process. To bridge these gaps, we need a comprehensive plan that ensures children can regain independence and resume their activities within the community, with strong family support.
Dr Fatemeh Pol, Dr Reza Rezayatmend, Dr Ebrahim Sadeghi-Demneh,
Volume 0, Issue 0 (4-2024)
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Demand for prosthetic and orthotic services is expected to rise due to the ageing population, increasing prevalence of non-communicable diseases, and greater accident risks. Regular access to prosthetics and orthotics services is necessary for those who need these assistive devices. Yet, Iran faces important challenges in maintaining comprehensive, affordable prosthetics and orthotics services. Key challenges involve inadequate policy and strategic planning, barriers to health system integration, and difficulties in training a skilled workforce. This article highlights how the overlooking of prosthetic and orthotic services in healthcare tariffs restricts access to affordable care for disabled individuals and hider workforce training for these essential rehabilitation services.
Asghar Dadkhah,
Volume 11, Issue 1 (12-2013)
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Iranian Rehabilitation Journal has the chance to issue a special issue on Occupational therapy and rehabilitation which has the perspective of health promotion. In this issue we will have 14 articles from the history to effectiveness of different skills/interventions of occupation therapy. We cover articles from child hood to adults to aged people. Evaluating the assessment tools such as the Parenting Self-Efficacy tool, measuring outcome of occupational therapy interventions, Autism, cerebral palsy, and aged people are the main concern of articles. Articles also discussed Fatigue, Right hand preference, Balance, Environmental barriers, Audiovisual timulation, and Craniosacral therapy issues.
Asghar Dadkhah,
Volume 12, Issue 1 (3-2014)
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Current understanding of disability and impairment has led to new approaches in Rehabilitation. In this issue of Iranian Rehabilitation Journal, a variety of articles introduces a new trend in rehabilitation. "Emotion pitch" of each vowel sound and Percentage of vowel correct is the subject which Talie Zarifian and her colleagues discussed in their article. Persian speaking children can get benefit from the results of this paper. This paper reminds the readers for family empowerment and family based rehabilitation (1). Preschool children were the target of another paper related to Perceptual Motor Training on Motor Skills. Dr. Sajedi discussed the improvement of perceptual- motor training on skills level of preschool children and motivation of preschool centers. Motor disorder and motor activity are the main concern in children rehabilitation (2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
Asghar Dadkhah,
Volume 12, Issue 2 (6-2014)
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Rehabilitation program is a critical piece of clinical care strategy in order to accelerate healing and improve quality of life to the fullest extent possible. An innovated program should have 3 inspiring concepts: Seek inspire and Advance. Seeking and evaluating is a breakthrough technology, innovative methodology and emerging trend in the healthcare industry. The program should inspire clinicians to critically evaluate and implement the highest standards of care. Also an innovated program should advance clinical program development to maximize opportunities for first to market positioning and community partnerships. The scope of program can be from psycho-rehabilitation to predictor in addiction (1-3), Cognitive and motor rehabilitation researchers are quite concerned about system wide biases that may impair development of innovative rehabilitation techniques. In this issue ....
Asghar Dadkhah,
Volume 12, Issue 3 (9-2014)
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Mental rehabilitation can include a range of disabling conditions, from severe and enduring psychotic or bipolar disorders to more transient affective disorders. The concept of rehabilitation reflects the concept of disability. If the concept of mental illness is viewed as a mechanism for social control, then we can say that one of the most powerful aspects of the medicalization of the individual is the application by physicians of diagnostic labels. It attempts to approach the issue of psychological rehabilitation (1-3) from a bio-psychosocial viewpoint, recognizing that a person’s physical, mental, motional, social and spiritual needs should be considered in the rehabilitation process. This multidisciplinary view focuses on recovery-oriented care of persons with mental health problems and on their rehabilitation program. An individual’s experience of a particular impairment needs to be understood within its social context and processes of socialization (4). Again here the role of psycho-rehabilitation programs will be magnetized in the mental health care (5).
Asghar Dadkhah,
Volume 13, Issue 4 (12-2015)
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The holistic approach encourages the client to include rehabilitation strategies that support the general person condition. In this approach in every condition of physical and mental health, decreasing stress and increasing person’s immunity and psychological resilience can help the whole body cope better, rehabilitate more quickly, and maintain better health. Holistic treatment means that the rehabilitation treatment should offer recovery treatment that addresses the needs of the whole person body and mind.
Mina Ohadi,
Volume 14, Issue 1 (3-2016)
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The Iranian Rehabilitation Journal (IRJ) invites research papers on the genetic basis of single gene and complex disorders. This vastly dynamic branch of science will complement the multidisciplinary wealth of expertise in the fields of social welfare and rehabilitation. The past few years have witnessed outstanding research projects on the genetic causes of numerous debilitating disorders, such as intellectual disability, deafness, and blindness. Those achievements are largely indebted to the next generation exome sequencing technologies. Exome sequencing detects variants in coding exons, and can expand the target to include untranslated regions (UTRs) and microRNA to present a more comprehensive view of gene regulation. Whole-exome sequencing (WES) determines variations of all coding regions, or exons, of known genes. Once beyond imagination and reach, WES promises to revolutionize the perspective of a wide range of applications, including population genetics, medical genetics, and cancer studies.
Mina Ohadi,
Volume 15, Issue 1 (3-2017)
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Niloufar Rabanifar, Kianoush Abdi,
Volume 17, Issue 4 (12-2019)
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Mehdi Rassafiani, Hamid Dalvand,
Volume 19, Issue 2 (6-2021)
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Greg Kelly,
Volume 20, Issue 0 (1-2022)
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The theory and practice of sensory integration were developed in the late 1960s by an occupational therapist and psychologist, Dr. A. Jean Ayres [1]. Also, known as sensory processing, it is “the neurological process that organizes sensation from one’s own body and from the environment and makes it possible to use the body effectively within the environment” [1].
Hakime Pashazade, Masoomeh Maarefvand, Yadollah Abolfathi Momtaz, Kianoush Abdi,
Volume 21, Issue 3 (9-2023)
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Today, with the increase in the elderly population and life expectancy, the need to use care services for this significant part of the population is increasing [1]. Beliefs, cultures, and social norms among different ethnicities and races are vital in the extent and nature of care. Two types of care exist, informal and formal. According to statistics by the Secretariat of the National Council on Aging, almost 0.2% of the elderly receive formal care. Therefore, a significant percentage of the elderly live with their families.
Coresponding author: Kianoush Abdi, E-mail: k55abdi@yahoo.com
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Dr. Masoud Gharib, Dr. Vahid Rashedi, Mr Mohammad Mohsen Dehghani-Firouzabadi, Dr. Kaveh Haddadi,
Volume 22, Issue 3 (9-2024)
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The upper limb plays a crucial role in daily life activities, self-care, work, leisure, and social activities. It enables a person to perform essential tasks, such as eating, drinking, writing and searching the environment, leading to increased cognition and intelligence in children. Various disorders in children (for instance, Erb palsy, cerebral palsy, hemiplegia, muscular dystrophy, neuropathy) and adults (such as stroke and central, and peripheral nerve damage) can affect the functioning of the upper limb. While mobility aids exist for individuals with lower limb disabilities, there is a lack of suitable technical solutions for those with upper limb disorders because of structural and joint complications. Minimum muscle strength, at level 3 or higher, is necessary for limb movement, and this strength can be affected by neurological and musculoskeletal disorders, resulting in a limited range of motion or no movement.
