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Joanne Borg-Stein, MD, and colleagues found that among 1,097,612 individuals with knee osteoarthritis, the need for total knee arthroplasty within five years of diagnosis was significantly greater for those with comorbid depression and obesity than those without either comorbidity or with each comorbidity individually.
A new project plans to expand the Life Impact Burn Injury Recovery Evaluation (LIBRE) Profile into a publicly accessible mobile application. Learn more.
Cheri Blauwet, MD, and colleagues recently published an editorial about ensuring equity in healthcare for people with physical disabilities, with a focus on cancer care and rehabilitation. Learn more.
Huan Deng, PhD, Timothy J. Genovese, MD, MPH, and Jeffrey C. Schneider, MD, present an update on biopsychosocial impairments that can occur in the adult burn population, using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health to structure the review, with focus on long-term outcomes.
Physicians and researchers from Spaulding Rehabilitation will present their latest work at the 2024 Association of Academic Physiatrists (AAP) Annual Meeting, held February 20–24 in Orlando, Florida.
Findings from a clinical trial co-led by Spaulding Rehabilitation showed that patients who rehabilitated with a system called InTandem were three times more likely to respond to treatment and had improvements in walking speed compared with rehabilitation without the system.
In an international survey of female healthcare professionals, researchers at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital found that a greater sense of workplace "belonging" was quantifiably related to reduced reported likelihood of leaving one's current institution within the next two years.
A new art installation at Spaulding Hospital Cambridge was created by the Partners for Youth with Disabilities Program and local artist Joshua Winer. Learn more.
Nathan Cook, PhD, Grant Iverson, PhD, and colleagues reviewed the evidence underlying the CDC Guideline on the Diagnosis and Management of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Among Children. They found pronounced knowledge gaps about how social determinants of health and health equity factors relate to managing this injury.
A new study led by researchers at the Discovery Center for Musculoskeletal Recovery, Schoen Adams Research Institute at Spaulding Rehabilitation, a member of Mass General Brigham, and Graduate School of Medicine in Nagoya University examined the effect of exercise and immobilization on FAP-driven myosteatosis in aged skeletal muscle.