Topics

1. General:

1.1. Function Assessment and Outcome Measurement
1.2. ICF
1.3. Management and Administration in Rehabilitation/Rehabilitation Funding
1.4. Day Rehabilitation Hospitals/Day Rehabilitation Centres
1.5. (Self) Support Groups in Rehabilitation
1.6. Specialty Programs/Teaching in Rehabilitation
1.7. Rehabilitation Professionals with disabilities
1.8. Strategic Plans in Rehabilitation
1.9. Publishing in Rehabilitation (& Meet the Editor special session)
1.10. Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR)
1.11. Ethics in Rehabilitation
1.12. Quality Assurance (QA) in Rehabilitation
1.13. Methodological Issues in Research in Rehabilitation

2. Neurological:

2.1. Rehabilitation of Patients after Stroke
2.2. Rehabilitation after Traumatic Brain Injury
2.3. Pain Evaluation and Treatment/Phantom Pain
2.4. Rehabilitation of Spinal Cord Injured Patients
2.5. Rehabilitation of Patients with Peripheral Nerve Lesions
2.6. Rehabilitation of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis
2.7. Rehabilitation of Patients with Parkinson disease
2.8. Rehabilitation of Patients with Other Neurological Diseases
2.9. Post Polio Syndrome – Diagnosis and Rehabilitation
2.10. Rehabilitation of Adults with CP
2.11. The Ageing with Disabilities
2.12. Psychological/Psychiatric issues in Rehabilitation

3. Geriatrics:

3.1. Rehabilitation of Geriatric Patients
3.2. Rehabilitation of patients with osteoporosis

4. Trauma/Orthopaedics/Sport:

4.1. Rehabilitation after Musculo-Skeletal Trauma
4.2. Sport Injury Rehabilitation
4.3. Spine disorders rehabilitation
4.4. Orthopaedic Rehabilitation
4.5. War Injuries Rehabilitation
4.6. Disaster victims rehabilitation (earthquakes, tsunami)
4.7. Sport for Disabled
4.8. Rehabilitation of Patients with Rheumatological Disorders

5. Special therapeutic methods of rehabilitation medicine:

5.1. Kinesiology and Isokinetics in Rehabilitation
5.2. Induced Constrained Therapy and other New Therapeutic Methods
5.3. Cognitive Rehabilitation – evaluation and treatment models
5.4. Assistive Technology
5.5. Housing and environmental adaptations in disability
5.6. Accessibility in Rehabilitation (Participation)
5.7. Driving with disability
5.8. Robotics in Rehabilitation
5.9. Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES)
5.10. Electrophysiology in Rehabilitation
5.11. Hydrology/Talassotherapy/Spa
5.12. Biomechanics in Rehabilitation/ Gait and Balance
5.13. Nursing in Rehabilitation – specific interventions
5.14. Advanced Imaging Technologies in Rehabilitation (fMRI, PET, etc.)
5.15. Art therapy, Music therapy, Dance therapy
5.16. Virtual reality (VR)

6. Special body function problems

6.1. Spasticity
6.2. Management of Bladder Dysfunction
6.3. Speech & Communication Disorders
6.4. Chronic Wounds (Decubitus Ulcers, etc.)

7. (Re) habilitation of Children

8. Other

8.1. Cardiovascular Rehabilitation
8.2. Vocational Rehabilitation and Return to Work (RTW) in Disability
8.3. Rehabilitation of Oncologic Patients
8.4. Rehabilitation of Patients after Burns
8.5. Miscellaneous