Rethinking physical and rehabilitation medicine

Re-education consists in training people injured either by illness or the vagaries of life to achieve the best functionality now possible for them. Strangely, the subject is not taught in the normal educational curricula of the relevant professions. It thus tends to be developed anew with each patient, without recourse to knowledge of what such training, or assistance in such training, might be.
New paradigms of re-education are in fact possible today, thanks to advances in cognitive science, and new technologies such as virtual reality and robotics. They lead to the re-thinking of the procedures of physical medicine, as well as of re-education.
The first part looks anew at re-education in the context of both international classifications of functionality, handicap and health, and the concept of normality. The second part highlights the function of implicit memory in re-education. And the last part shows the integration of new cognition technologies in the new paradigms of re-education.

In rehabilitation caregivers and patients are united in a mutual learning process. The practitioner is a teacher who should know learning mechanisms and methods allowing the patient to learn. The patient must allow the therapist to implement an education adapted to its environment and life project. The aim is to obtain a better social integration and better functioning under the ICFDH. The book provides theoretical and practical applications to describe this new therapeutic management.

Contenu
Learning And Education Into Rehabilitation Strategy.- Learning and teaching: two processes to bear in mind when rethinking physical medicine and rehabilitation.- The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), a unifying model for physical and rehabilitation medicine (PRM).- Rehabilitation and norms.- Implicit Learning: A Basic Learning Process.- A historical perspective on learning: the legacy and actuality of I. M. Pavlov and N. A. Bernstein.- Introducing implicit learning: from the laboratory to the real life.- Implicit learning, development, and education.- Implicit learning and implicit memory in moderate to severe memory disorders.- Learning processes and recovery of higher functions after brain damage.- Learning, Medical Training, and Rehabilitation Practice.- Benefits of learning technologies in medical training, from full-scale simulators to virtual reality and multimedia presentations.- Auditory Training in Deaf Children.- Virtual reality for learning and rehabilitation.- Augmented feedback, virtual reality and robotics for designing new rehabilitation methods.