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Cancer Rehabilitation

Activity, not rest, should be encouraged to reduce the side-effects associated with cancer treatments.

The American Cancer Society, The American College of Sports Medicine, The National Cancer Institute, and a host of cancer researchers report that cancer rehabilitation is an important factor in preventing cancer treatment side effects. Rehabilitation Systems, as clinical rehabilitation program developers, is focused on training your restorative professionals to recover the functional independence of your cancer patient population. Read More >

For cancer patients who cannot attend a cancer rehabilitation program:

Rehabilitation Systems offers a unique online cancer rehabilitation training program, developed to serve patients seeking their own program. Scientifically-based restorative principals and practices fill your training program, organized to create a pathway to increased independence, skills for living, and quality of life. This is a 12 session training program with online-health-coaching to strengthen your learning and performance process. Read More >


Our 'Cancer Rehabilitation' Subject Matter Experts

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January 12, 2010
Rehabilitation Program Development:    By far, the On-Site Workshop is the most effective method of delivering customized rehabilitation programs for any rehabilitation organization. The settings which experience the greatest outcomes from specialized rehabilitation programs are skilled nursing, assisted living, physical therapy and rehabilitation, and home health care organizations. Specific rehabilitation programs are optimized in the following organizations: Cancer Rehabilitation offered by hospitals, outpatient rehabilitation clinics, and community fitness organizations (LAF/YMCA).
December 30, 2009
Rehabilitation Systems Comments: Cancer treatments with increasing survivability rates have shifted cancer into the chronic disease category. This significant change is both a relief to one diagnosed with cancer and a challenge to the restorative professionals taking front and center positions to coach, support and motivate cancer survivors as they travel the restoration pathway to increased quality of life. Now is the time to leverage every caring hand in the quest for functional and social independence from cancer.   Cancer Rehabilitation: An Expanding Need Deborah Julie Franklin, PhD,MD Assistant Professor Dept. of Rehabilitation Medicine Thomas Jefferson University
December 27, 2009

Rehabilitation Systems Comments: In addition to the following professionals listed below as cancer rehabilitation experts, the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Cancer Society,  recently established an industry first, accredited cancer speciality certification. Thus, establishing a national and international credentialing pathway for rehabilitation professionals to increase standards of care and produce increased access to restorative cancer care services. SPECIALTY CERTIFICATION:

September 30, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cancer is on pace to supplant heart disease as the No. 1 cause of death worldwide in 2010, with a growing burden in poor countries thanks to more cigarette smoking and other factors, global health experts said on Tuesday. "The global cancer burden doubled in the last 30 years of the 20th century, and it is estimated that this will double again between 2000 and 2020 and nearly triple by 2030," according to the report. Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0918012220081209

Heart Failure Rehabilitation

Heart failure, also called congestive heart failure (CHF), is a condition in which the heart cannot pump enough oxygenated blood to meet the needs of the body's other organs. The heart keeps pumping, but not as efficiently as a healthy heart. Usually, the loss in the heart's pumping action is a symptom of an underlying heart problem.

As the only major cardiovascular disease increasing in incidence and prevalence, congestive heart failure (CHF) is a major health threat. Progression of the disease often leads to severe disability and requires intensive medical and psychological management. Read More >

For heart failure patients who cannot attend a heart failure rehabilitation program:

Rehabilitation Systems offers a unique online heart failure rehabilitation training program, developed to serve patients seeking their own program. Scientifically-based restorative principals and practices fill your training program, organized to create a pathway to increased independence, skills for living, and quality of life. This is a 12 session training program with online-health-coaching to strengthen your learning and performance process. Read More >

January 12, 2010
Rehabilitation Program Development:    By far, the On-Site Workshop is the most effective method of delivering customized rehabilitation programs for any rehabilitation organization. The settings which experience the greatest outcomes from specialized rehabilitation programs are skilled nursing, assisted living, physical therapy and rehabilitation, and home health care organizations. Specific rehabilitation programs are optimized in the following organizations: Cancer Rehabilitation offered by hospitals, outpatient rehabilitation clinics, and community fitness organizations (LAF/YMCA).
December 22, 2009
J Telemed Telecare 2009;15:297-301 doi:10.1258/jtt.2009.090208 © 2009 Royal Society of Medicine Press http://jtt.rsmjournals.com/ Home-based exercise rehabilitation with telemedicine following cardiac surgery:  Simonetta Scalvini * , Emanuela Zanelli *, Laura Comini *, Margherita Dalla Tomba , Giovanni Troise and Amerigo Giordano * * Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri IRCCS, Lumezzane, Brescia; Fondazione Poliambulanza Istituto Ospedaliero, Brescia, Italy
December 12, 2009
‘Home is Where the Heart Is’ This was the title of an article published in the September 2000 issue of Advance for Providers of Post-Acute Care. Deborah Brash, vice president, nursing operations for Gentiva Health Services, reported that, "With the support of well-managed home care services, CHF patients often improve their lifestyles and clinical compliance in ways that contribute to more positive outcomes and that often are not possible without such care." Home health care, she contends, "affords a more hands-on approach, often ensuring higher compliance rates and associated improved outcomes." To read more...

Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Serving physicians practices, hospital outpatient program developments and physical medicine clinics. Rehabilitation Systems, has designed a program implementation package with clinical pathways for the skilled-, assisted-, and independent living facilities, or for inpatient and outpatient facilities. The pulmonary rehabilitation program implementation course is certified, as are all the programs, at sixteen (16) clinical contact hours or one point six (1.6) continuing eduction units (CEU’s) for physical medicine professionals.

  1. Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) is a multidisciplinary approach to improving the functional status and quality of life of people with chronic lung disease. Endurance and strength exercise training is cornerstone to pulmonary rehabilitation. Additionally, educational training increases patients understanding of the disease process, improves coping skills, and teaches the patient self-management.
  2. Patients may expect to realize specific outcomes such as fewer emergency room visits, lower re-hospitalization rates, decreased treatment interventions, decreased duration per hospitalization, increased functional ability, independence and self-care.
  3. Program graduates typically return to activities of daily living sooner and maintain a higher Quality of Life. The functional goals of (PR) are accomplished through up to 36 individuated exercise sessions held three times a week for 12 weeks, as defined by CMS. Read More >

For pulmonary patients who cannot attend a pulmonary rehabilitation program:

Rehabilitation Systems offers a unique online pulmonary rehabilitation training program, developed to serve patients seeking their own program. Scientifically-based restorative principals and practices fill your training program, organized to create a pathway to increased independence, skills for living, and quality of life. This is a 12 session training program with online-health-coaching to strengthen your learning and performance process.

Fuze MeetingThis emerging approach to serving the restorative needs of a growing patient population at home, in skilled-, assisted-, and independent living facilities, community centers, and the like, is accomplished with a computer and an internet connection. Read More >

 
January 12, 2010
Rehabilitation Program Development:    By far, the On-Site Workshop is the most effective method of delivering customized rehabilitation programs for any rehabilitation organization. The settings which experience the greatest outcomes from specialized rehabilitation programs are skilled nursing, assisted living, physical therapy and rehabilitation, and home health care organizations. Specific rehabilitation programs are optimized in the following organizations: Cancer Rehabilitation offered by hospitals, outpatient rehabilitation clinics, and community fitness organizations (LAF/YMCA).
December 26, 2009
There can be no misunderstanding that telemedicine will play an increasing roll in rehabilitation for one reason alone, to increase access to care. However, with our aging population who officially enter the Medicare system in 2011, the cost of doing business as usual will simply be a matter of addition and subtraction makeing the case for telemedicine. That is, the addition of 78 million citizens accessing medicare between 2011 and 2029 and the subtraction of declining resources by an ageing population makes outcomes clear. According to the Institute of Medicine, we need three significant adjustment as we serve the senior population in the next two or three decades.
August 17, 2009
Patient education handouts are provided as a free service. They include helpful information that people can use at home to relieve symptoms related to various diseases. Handouts are designed to reinforce education pieces taught in rehabilitation. However, they may also be helpful to people who have not been through a rehabilitation program. You can search the handouts archive for a topic that is relevent to you or your clinic.  Topics are selected by the most prominent illnesses or issues observed in our local area. Eventually the issues of your area and the issues in our area will cross paths.

Diabetes Rehabilitation

The need for Diabetes education and rehabilitation continues to escalate.

Total Population: 23.6 million people—7.8 percent of the American population—have diabetes.

Diagnosed: 17.9 million people

Undiagnosed: 5.7 million people

"Diabetes is fast becoming the epidemic of the 21st century," the report said.

The condition occurs when the body cannot produce or use insulin properly to process sugar. It already affects 246 million people worldwide, up from 30 million two decades ago.  "Wherever poverty and a lack of sanitation drive families to low cost-per-calorie foods and packaged drinks, Type 2 diabetes thrives," the federation said in a statement. Overweight and obesity are risk factors for Type 2 diabetes. http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2006/12/04/diabetes.html . Read More >

For diabetes patients who cannot attend a diabetes rehabilitation program:

Rehabilitation Systems offers a unique online diabetes rehabilitation training program, developed to serve patients seeking their own program. Scientifically-based restorative principals and practices fill your training program, organized to create a pathway to increased independence, skills for living, and quality of life. This is a 12 session training program with online-health-coaching to strengthen your learning and performance process. Read More >

 
January 12, 2010
Rehabilitation Program Development:    By far, the On-Site Workshop is the most effective method of delivering customized rehabilitation programs for any rehabilitation organization. The settings which experience the greatest outcomes from specialized rehabilitation programs are skilled nursing, assisted living, physical therapy and rehabilitation, and home health care organizations. Specific rehabilitation programs are optimized in the following organizations: Cancer Rehabilitation offered by hospitals, outpatient rehabilitation clinics, and community fitness organizations (LAF/YMCA).
December 22, 2009
J Telemed Telecare 1997;3:65-66 doi:10.1258/1357633971930427 © 1997 Royal Society of Medicine Press http://jtt.rsmjournals.com/ Telemedicine applications for home health care Ilene Warner Home health care in the USA is one of the most rapidly growing segments of the health-care market. Telehealth seeks to reduce some of the inefficiencies of home health care in various ways, including replacing certain nursing visits with video visits, collecting vital-signs data remotely, improving medication compliance and patient education. The use of telehealth in home health-care settings will provide a means of interacting in a client-centered manner, promoting client autonomy through education and improved communications. Rehabilitation Systems Comments 

Online Training

Online rehabilitation classes are conducted Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in 50 minute sessions, for three (3) weeks. These online rehabilitation training classes start the first Monday of the month, every month.   Click here to see the Online Training calendar schedule

Certainly Online Rehab is the most extensive outreach of rehab training and information sharing possible! The online training provides step-by-step instructions using PowerPoint presentations, videos, diagrams, photographs, lecture with a question and answer session.

This is an interactive online rehab training experience.  Practicum or hands-on experience is described and coached through video and feedback. This training is provided to any person with a computer, phone and Internet connection. Download our electronic manual with this option.

Telemedicine

The term "telemedicine" derives from the Greek "tele" meaning "at a distance" and the present word "medicine" which itself derives from the Latin "mederi" meaning "healing" - thus, "healing at a distance".

Telemedicine is an emerging approach for serving the restorative needs of a growing patient population at home, in skilled-, assisted-, independent-, and community living facilities, or anywhere for that matter. Training is accomplished with a computer, telephone and an Internet connection.

Plan to join us online for this 12 session rehabilitation training program. Please don’t forget to invite your friends to join you for this life changing process, as you gain more control of your health. In this way you build a support system for on-going success.

As part of this program, online health coaching helps you with technical issues, answers your health questions and walks you step-by-step through your rehabilitation program.

Cost: $236.00 per group or individual connection to online rehab training.

December 22, 2009
If a bipartisan effort in Congress is successful, Medicare and the rest of the country are headed for wider, deeper use of telemedicine. Only about 20% of the country's Medicare beneficiaries have access to telemedicine because of restrictions limiting funding to rural areas, according to legislators. The Medicare Telehealth Enhancement Act introduced last week would expand Medicare reimbursement to the other 80% of the country and encourage in other ways the remote monitoring of patients using telecommunications technology.