Aggressive rehabilitation

Decision/Solution. The therapist began an aggressive rehabilitation program consisting of daily heat, ultra-... 

Therapists can therefore play a vital role in facilitating the substitution of normal physiologic motor control for the previously used spastic tone. This idea seems especially true when one of the parenteral antispasticity techniques is used, such as intrathecal baclofen or botulinum toxin injections. For example, patients who receive intrathecal baclofen through programmable pump systems often require a period of intensive rehabilitation to enable the benefits from decreased spasticity and increased voluntary motor function to occur. Therapists must therefore be ready to use aggressive rehabilitation techniques to help patients adapt to the relatively rapid and dramatic decrease in muscle tone that is often associated with antispasticity drug therapy. 

Aggressive psychosociai therapies (e.g., family therapy, group therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and various rehabilitation programs)... 

The use of simple probes can be used to study many important drugs involved in neurotransmission. For example, one could use probes in drug rehabilitation programs. Serotonin has been linked to violent, aggressive activity. Drugs that increase serotonin... 

Symp. on Condition Assessment, Protection Repair and Rehabilitation of Concrete Bridges Exposed to Aggressive Environments, ACI Ball Convention, Minneapolis, 1993. 

Another source of aggressive species is sodium chloride. The cars used to transport rock salt suffer from advanced corrosion attack and last for approximately only 3 years (Coating Industry Expert, Private Communication, June 2000). The high cost of rehabilitation of salt carrying cars created a trend toward using unlined, covered hopper cars previously utilized to transport grain for rock salt service. When corrosion becomes considerable, the cars are scrapped. As such a process cannot continue indefinitely, more and more rock salt is expected to be hauled by trucks and barges, as the revenue seems to be insufficient to justify the corrosion-related replacement/rehabilitation costs. 

Muneta T, Sekiya I, Ogiuchi T, Yagishita K, Yamamoto H, Shinomiya K (1998) Effects of aggressive early rehabilitation on the outcome of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with multi-strand semitendinosus tendon. Int Orthop 22(6) 352-356... 

Broomfield, J. R, Rodriguez, J., Ortega, L. M. and Garcia, A. M. (1993) Corrosion Rate Measurements in Reinforced Concrete Structures by a Linear Polarization Device, Int. Symp. on Condition Assessement, Protection Repair and Rehabilitation of Concrete Bridges Exposed to Aggressive Environments, Minneapolis ACI Fall Convention. 

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