Following an in-depth, comprehensive survey and inspection of all operations, CARF has awarded three-year accreditation to a total of 15 MossRehab programs. MossRehab now has more CARF-accredited programs than any other rehab provider on U.S.News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals” list. The CARF-accredited programs include: Home- and Community-Based Rehabilitation Programs: Brain Injury Program (Adults) Home- and Community-Based Rehabilitation [...]

What is the ReWalk? MossRehab will soon be the exclusive U.S. clinical trial site for a new assistive device called the ReWalk. The ReWalk is a motorized exoskeleton suit that enables patients with lower limb disabilities to independently engage in ambulatory activities, including standing, walking and in some cases climbing stairs. The ReWalk consists of a [...]

by David Caraway, MD, PhD; Michael Saulino, MD, PhD; Robert Fisher, MD The 2007 Polyanalgesic Consensus Panel recommends ziconotide as one of three options for first-line intrathecal (IT) monotherapy. As we all know, Medicare and most insurance companies require a trial of IT therapy before one can proceed with implantation of a delivery system. Unlike opioids, [...]

by E. Anthony Overton, DO, Ira D. Kornbluth, MD, Michael F. Saulino, MD, Michele Y. Holding, MD, Mitchell K. Freedman, DO This self-directed learning module highlights strategies for interventional treatments for chronic pain disorders. It is part of the chapter on chronic pain in the Self-Directed Physiatric Education Program for practitioners in physical medicine and rehabilitation. [...]

by Mitchell K. Freedman, DO, Michael F. Saulino, MD, E. Anthony Overton, DO, Michele Y. Holding, MD, Ira D. Kornbluth, MD This self-directed learning module first reviews the importance of weight management and smoking cessation in the treatment of axial low back pain and then describes the use of medication in complex regional pain syndrome and [...]

Ira D. Kornbluth, MD, Mitchell K. Freedman, DO, Michele Y. Holding, MD, E. Anthony Overton, DO, Michael F. Saulino, MD This self-directed learning module highlights the monitoring of progress and compliance in chronic pain management. It is part of the chapter on chronic pain in the Self-Directed Physiatric Education Program for practitioners in physical medicine and [...]

by Michael F. Saulino, MD, Ira D. Kornbluth, MD, E. Anthony Overton, DO, Michele Y. Holding, MD, Mitchell K. Freedman, DO This self-directed learning module highlights approaches to the investigation of selected lumbar spine conditions. It is part of the chapter on chronic pain management in the Self-Directed Physiatric Education Program for practitioners in physical medicine [...]

by Mitchell K. Freedman, DO, E. Anthony Overton, DO, Michael F. Saulino, MD, Michele Y. Holding, MD, Ira D. Kornbluth, MD This self-directed learning module highlights approaches to the investigation of common cervical and thoracic conditions. It is part of the chapter on chronic pain management in the Self-Directed Physiatric Education Program for practitioners in physical [...]

by Michele Y. Holding, MD, Michael F. Saulino, MD, E. Anthony Overton, DO, Ira D. Kornbluth, MD, Mitchell K. Freedman, DO This self-directed learning module highlights definitions used in pain management. It is part of the chapter on chronic pain management in the Self-Directed Physiatric Education Program for practitioners in physical medicine and rehabilitation. Terms that [...]

by Steven A. Jax, PhD, David A. Rosebaum Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA 19141, United States. The dorsal, action-related, visual stream has been thought to have little or no memory. This hypothesis has seemed credible because functions related to the dorsal stream have been generally unsusceptible to priming from previous experience. Tests of this claim have [...]