Mobile pressure map project receives Department of Defense funding

Tamara L. Vos-Draper, O.T., Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, describes a Mayo-developed mobile pressure-mapping system that researchers will study in veterans with spinal cord injuries who are at risk of pressure ulcers.

Assessing physical function with IRT-based patient-reported outcomes

Andrea L. Cheville, M.D., Mayo Clinic Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation consultant, discusses Item Response Theory (IRT). Historically patients were given fixed-length tests with precisely worded questions, all of which had to be administered ...

Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Pain Rehabilitation Center in Jacksonville, Florida

Christopher D. Sletten, Ph.D., L.P., clinical psychologist and Comprehensive Pain Rehabilitation Center (PRC) clinical director at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, discusses the program details, what interdisciplinary services are ...

Clinical practice guidelines for low back pain

Ralph E. Gay, M.D., D.C., M.S., Mayo Clinic associate professor of PM&R, discusses clinical practice guidelines for low back pain. What are they for, and do they work?

Rehabilitative Medicine Research Center open house

Christopher H. Evans, Ph.D., director of Rehabilitation Medicine Research Center (RMRC), Mayo Clinic PM&R, discusses the RMRC's recent open house.

Pressure ulcer prevention app

Tamara L. Vos-Draper, O.T., occupational therapist at Mayo Clinic, discusses the problem of pressure sores and preventing them. Her team is developing a smartphone app that provides biofeedback to patients so that they might manage their ...