Telerehabilitation Policy Report: Interprofessional Policy Principles and Priorities

The American Occupational Therapy Association, the American Physical Therapy Association, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the American Telemedicine Association are collaborating to advance telehealth and ensure sustainability of virtual care services beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. These professional associations represent the interests of more than 888,000 rehabilitation services professionals. This paper summarizes the current state of telehealth policy principles and priorities for rehabilitation services. The report outlines key considerations when advocating with policymakers to avoid the “Telehealth Cliff” for audiology and therapy services and to facilitate the continued advancement of telehealth innovation and transformation by rehabilitation services professionals.

MRI Visualization and Distribution Patterns of Foreign Modeling Agents: A Brief Pictorial Review for Clinicians

Since the ancient Egyptians, people have always been worried about their physical appearance. Nowadays, for some cultures like Latin American, physical appearance depends on the context, and the concept of beauty is to have wider hips and more prominent buttocks. One way to achieve these goals is to inject foreign modelants that include some oils to modify certain body regions. Until today, the search continues to find a modelling agent that is nonteratogenic, noncarcinogenic, and not susceptible to infection and can stay at the spot where it was injected (not migration). This review is aimed at providing a brief, comprehensive assessment of the use of modeling agents and summarizes some key imaging features of filler-related complications. The topics of this review are historical data, epidemiology, classification of dermal fillers (xenografts, hyaluronic acid derivatives, autografts, homografts, synthetic materials), adverse reactions, imaging method used in the detection of injectable fillers, MRI patterns observed in complications of injectable fillers, and histological findings of immune response, treatment, and conclusions. We present several classifications of injectable fillers based on composition, degradation, and complications. Additionally, readers will find some representative cases of the most common locations of injectable fillers demonstrating their infiltrative MRI patterns.

Design of a TENS knee pad with integrated textile electrodes

Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) is defined as the application of electrical current to the skin for paincontrol by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). The TENS treatment is extensively preferred since it issafe, not expensive and has no side effects when compared to drug therapy. TENS therapy is applied using clinical orportable type TENS devices and TENS electrodes. However, conventional electrodes are not hygienic because they arenot washable and their sticky structure makes patients uncomfortable. Furthermore, they are not suitable to beintegrated into a smart garment. In this study, a knee pad with integrated electrodes and textile transmission lines havebeen designed and developed to be used for TENS therapy. Electrical resistance values of textile electrodes andtransmission lines which are integrated into the knee pad were measured. The developed knee pad was connected toa commercially available TENS device and electrical current transmission on subjects was tested. Furthermore, washingtests were conducted on the knee pad.

Making An Observation Without Making An Observation: “Seeing” Knowledge Embedded In The Physical World With One’s Own Eyes

In electron shelving, one kind of quantum jump in which an electron in an atom moves in a discontinuous fashion to another energy level, a person can "see" knowledge that a weak transition (which is very slow) has occurred since it is proven that a strong transition (which is very fast) has not occurred in the time in which the strong transition can occur. This is a null measurement. There is no physical detection of the photon in the weak transition. There is only the logical deduction that the weak transition occurred since one cannot detect the photon in the strong transition, the only other possible transition. Looking at the interruption in the fluorescence that occurs in the strong transition, a “dark” interval, is "seeing" the knowledge resulting from the logical deduction. The significance of a null measurement in leading to the conclusion that one can "see" the knowledge resulting from a logical deduction is discussed. The null measurement in the weak transition is one form of Einstein’s spooky action where something not physical occurring in the possible strong transition leads to the occurrence of the weak transition. (2021 April Meeting of the American Physical Society, https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/APR21/Session/KP01.48)

Differential Diagnosis for Physiotherapists

Following the criteria for competency developed by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA)related to performing a screening test, this research offers a clear way to check for systemic diseases andmedical disorders that can mimic neuromuscular and musculoskeletal problems. A seven-step screeningmodel that includes a history of medical history, risk factor assessment, clinical presentation, related signsand symptoms, and symptoms for individual clients is a systematic text. Past medical history, risk factorevaluation, clinical appearance, related signs and symptoms and symptom review are included in thescreening model for difference. Systems-based physiotherapy screening approach is a consistentscreening approach that can mimic neuromuscular and Musculo-Skeletal issues for systems and medicalconditions. In a logical way, three pieces of content contain information covered: An introduction to themethod of screening Neuromusculoskeletal pain and dysfunction Viscerogenic causes System root of painand malfunction in the neuromusculoskeleton Cognitive approach to processing and reasoning facilitatesthe collection and analysis of evidence, the posing and resolution of questions, the inference, thehypothesis and clinical assessments. Case examples and case studies provide real examples of hotinformation in the diagnostic process to incorporate the screening information.Full description of cited works can be found upon request to the author’s email