Rehabilitation Science in Context

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Improvement in Gait Pattern After Knee Arthroplasty Followed by Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation Physiotherapy

   • Joanna Jaczewska-Bogacka, Artur Stolarczyk

   Pages 1-9

3. Does Patient-Specific Instrumentation Improve Femoral and Tibial Component Alignment in Total Knee Arthroplasty? A Prospective Randomized Study

   • Artur Stolarczyk, Lukasz Nagraba, Tomasz Mitek, Magda Stolarczyk, Jarosław Michał Deszczyński, Maciej Jakucinski

   Pages 11-17

4. Preoperative Rehabilitation in Lung Cancer Patients: Yoga Approach

   • Giovanni Barassi, Rosa Grazia Bellomo, Antonella Di Iulio, Achille Lococo, Annamaria Porreca, Piera Attilia Di Felice et al.

   Pages 19-29

5. Effects of Breast and Prostate Cancer Metastases on Lumbar Spine Biomechanics: Rapid In Silico Evaluation

   • J. Lorkowski, O. Grzegorowska, M. S. Kozień, I. Kotela

   Pages 31-39

6. Perspective on Broad-Acting Clinical Physiological Effects of Photobiomodulation

   • Steven Shanks, Gerry Leisman

   Pages 41-52

7. The Timing of Rehabilitation Commencement After Reconstruction of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament

   • Marek Łyp, Iwona Stanisławska, Bożena Witek, Małgorzata Majerowska, Małgorzata Czarny-Działak, Ewa Włostowska

   Pages 53-57

8. Novel Model of Somatosensory Nerve Transfer in the Rat

   • Adriana M. Paskal, Wiktor Paskal, Kacper Pelka, Martyna Podobinska, Jaroslaw Andrychowski, Pawel K. Wlodarski

   Pages 59-64

9. Next-Generation Sequencing of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Mixed-Genotype Infections in Anti-HCV-Negative Blood Donors

   • Maciej Janiak, Kamila Caraballo Cortés, Karol Perlejewski, Dorota Kubicka-Russel, Piotr Grabarczyk, Urszula Demkow et al.

   Pages 65-71

10. Bioactive Oleic Derivatives of Dopamine: A Review of the Therapeutic Potential

    • Mieczyslaw Pokorski, Dominika Zajac

    Pages 73-82

11. Copeptin Blood Content as a Diagnostic Marker of Chronic Kidney Disease

    • Stanisław Niemczyk, Longin Niemczyk, Wawrzyniec Żmudzki, Marek Saracyn, Katarzyna Czarzasta, Katarzyna Szamotulska et al.

    Pages 83-91

12. Psychological Determinants of Attitude Toward Euthanasia: A Comparative Study of Female Nurses and Female Nonmedical Professionals

    • Alicja Głębocka

    Pages 93-103

13. Relation Between Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and IgE-Dependent Allergy in Pediatric Patients

    • Mateusz Miłosz, Urszula Demkow, Tomasz Wolańczyk

    Pages 105-109

The focus of this book lies on novel aspects of rehabilitation medicine used as a treatment tool in both physical and mental spheres.

The articles cover a diverse spectrum, such as rehabilitation in orthopedic pathologies, the exemplary of which is knee joint degeneration, in perioperative metastatic cancer diseases, or in neural degeneration requiring a transplant of donor nerve fibers into the defunct nerve. Advanced research studies involving proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation, photobiomodulation, or yoga meditative techniques to regain functional ability are dealt with. The topic is expanded by a comprehensive picture of chosen molecular, genetically underpinned, diagnostics in hepatitis C infections and of novel ideas in drug design holding a curative promise in central neurodegeneration, such as development of brain-blood-barrier permeable oleic derivatives of the hydrophilic dopamine compound. The emerging rehabilitative modes and applications are posed to influence future health care delivery.

The state-of-the art research is addressed to scientists, clinicians, therapists, and allied health care professionals.

• Therapeutics
• health carre
• rehabilitation medicine
• physiotherapy
• functional recovery
• diagnostic markers
• allergy
• therapy

“This is a compilation of papers on various research studies, review articles, and conceptual models related to various aspects of rehabilitation medicine. … The book might be read by clinicians with various backgrounds in rehabilitation fields and researchers who study rehabilitation science. … The papers cover a variety of topics in rehabilitation, including basic science, clinical studies, conceptual models, and review articles.” (Elliot J Roth, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 2019)

• Opole Medical School, Opole, Poland

  Mieczyslaw Pokorski

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