Global web-based survey on healthy lifestyle behaviors in persons with (and without!) disabilities
The ISPRM Task Force on Physical Activity for Persons with Disabilities is currently conducting a global web-based survey on healthy lifestyle behaviors in persons with and without disabilities, in 7 languages. The aim is to determine the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on perceived physical activity levels, healthy eating habits, sleep habits, tobacco consumption and sedentariness in community-dwelling persons with disabilities. The group will also compare the impact of the pandemic on the ability of the disabled versus the non-disabled to pursue healthy lifestyles.
How You Can Help
Take the survey! Then, distribute far and wide among your patients, families, community centers, social media groups, clinical centers, email lists, and beyond. The pandemic has illuminated, and in some cases widened, existing gaps in access to health for vulnerable populations. After the pandemic ends, health and wellness organizations should take stock of how equitable and inclusive their movement-related health strategies are, and use these data to fill in gaps where appropriate.
Thank you for your help and support! ISPRM Task Force on Physical Activity for Persons with Disabilities
Our Newsletter Subcommittee is forming its own Editorial Board and we are looking for members! Are you interested in becoming part of a team dedicated to collecting & sharing PRM news worldwide? This is your chance to contribute to an international community and earn valuable experience! Send your CV and short introduction of yourself to isprmoffice@aimgroup.eu
ISPRM World Youth Forum is looking for candidates to represent on its Central Board in the following positions:
1. Medical students' representative - 1 (must be a current medical student with a future plan to join PRM residency)
2. Person living with disability - The Criteria of Inclusion
Must also be:
1. Early-career physiatrists - should fulfill both -> within 5-year of graduation and age less than 35-year,
2. PRM residents/fellows, or
3. PRM aspirant medical students
The documents to be submitted are: CV of the candidate, Motivational letter of the candidate, and Official letter of recommendation from national society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
The Newsletter contains an update on the Cochrane Rehabilitation activities, Cochrane Systematic Reviews and blogshots of rehabilitation interest. View: Cochrane Rehabilitation Newsletters
With a recent recognition of the role of nociceptor sensitization in the pathogenesis of chronic low back pain (CLBP), drug targets having characterized that modulate hyperalgesia. With growing evidence that nerve growth factor (NGF) is a promising target in CLBP, this study assessed the effect of tanezumab a monoclonal antibody targeting NGF, for the treatment of patients with CLBP.
This randomized, double-blind, controlled study was completed at 191 sites in eight countries. Subjects were patients 18 years of age and older with axial predominant, recalcitrant CLBP of three or more months duration...READ MORE
In Bangladesh first case of COVID-19 was detected on 08th March 2020. As of 29th August 2020, there are 308,925 confirmed cases including 4,206 deaths with case fatality rate 1.4% and recovery rate 64.4% (1). Bangaldesh is a small country with about 165 million populations situated in the South East Asia (SEA). It is a lower-middle-income developing country with 15% of its population has some form of disability....READ MORE
VICE-CHANCELLOR OF BSMMU INAUGURATING POST-COVID FOLLOW-UP CLINICS
Colombia Did Not Let a Pandemic Stop Their Academic Calendar in #RehabMedicine
The Colombian Association of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (#ACMFR) took again the lead regards their educational commitments. They had already done it with the 4th International Congress and XXIX National Congress of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation held in Santa Marta, Colombia from August 16 to 18th 2018. It was such a great event with 614 participants, 10 countries from Latin America, plus Portugal, Switzerland and United States. There were over 80 lecturers, 10 workshops, and several proposals on important but relegated topics such Functional Movement and Biomechanics, Disability, Independence and Sexuality on people with spinal cord injury...READ MORE
ISPRM PAST-PRESIDENT, DR. WALTER FRONTERA, SPEAKS IN THE XXIX COLOMBIAN CONGRESS OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION.
Report on the Impact of COVID-19 on Persons with Disabilities in Africa
Click HERE to view the results on the survey carried out by CBR Africa Network.
NEW section added on their website for Funding opportunities. CBR Africa Network shall be researching, collecting and updating this section with the latest funding opportunities in the field of Disability and CBR/CBID. Click the link below to review:
Join Prof Ruth Marshall and Dr Harvinder Chhabra for the final episode in Series One of SCI Care: What Really Matters as they discuss the success of the 59th ISCoS annual scientific meeting, from the concerns and apprehensions of going fully virtual to the pleasant surprises and highlights of all that worked. READ MORE
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