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unusual facts about rehabilitation


Mary Verghese

Mary Puthisseril Verghese (21 May 1925 - 17 December 1986) was a physician in India who was among the earliest pioneers of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in the country.


2005 Kashmir earthquake

The rest of the money pledged, which was given to the Government of Pakistan for reconstruction and development, was used by a reconstruction authority called Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority, which was made by then military regime to accommodate retired high military officials and while keeping the command of the reconstruction and rehabilitation authority directly under the military.

Ansvar insurance

The company gives tangible support to individuals and organisations who work to reduce the harm that alcohol and drugs cause in society, donating a share of profits to organisations involved in alcohol and drug education rehabilitation, such as Adfam, Be Your Best Foundation, Coram, Drugscope and Hope UK.

Anton Breinl Centre

The Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine (Anton Breinl Centre or the ABC) is a constituent discipline of the School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, and specialises in public health and tropical medicine.

Bay Area Rapid Transit

The HVAC system on the Rohr BART cars before rehabilitation were built by Thermo King, when it was a subsidiary of Westinghouse; it is now a subsidiary of Ingersoll Rand.

Bill Vicenzino

Professor, Dr. Bill Vicenzino is the first Chair in Sports Physiotherapy at the University of Queensland's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.

Brad Bellick

Due to his belief that punishment is the primary purpose of prison and not rehabilitation, he and Warden Henry Pope (played by Stacy Keach) do not always agree on several issues.

Brant Daugherty

Brant was born and raised in Mason, Ohio, the son of David Daugherty, an art teacher, and his wife, Mary Beth (Hirt) Daugherty, head of rehabilitation services for Shriners Hospitals for Children, Cincinnati.

Community Displacement in Philadelphia

The former Graduate Hospital is now Penn Medicine at Rittenhouse, a rehabilitation and acute-care facility owned owned by University of Pennsylvania Health System.

Community-based rehabilitation

In the beginning of the 1960s, efforts to establish rehabilitation centers in developing countries had taken hold in urban centers, but failed to provide support and assistance to disabled people in rural areas throughout the world.

Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute

Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute was founded by Sister Elizabeth Kenny, an Australian nurse, whose unconventional treatment for polio survivors led to today’s innovative rehabilitation therapy methods and techniques.

Cyclone Guba

The Papua New Guinea Defence Force and local United Nations officials will assist in the relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts.

Danny Matthys

In his youth, Matthys was a gifted cyclist in the category of ’promises’, together with André Dierickx, which later won famous classics such as the La Flèche Wallonne, but a very serious accident during the last years of his humanities studies in Ghent and a long rehabilitation, gave his life a strong new direction.

Daya Ratnayake

He also held the post of the Commissioner General Rehabilitation for rehabilitation of 12,000 ex-LTTE combatants under the Bureau of the Commissioner General Rehabilitation.

Freiburger Persönlichkeitsinventar

The FPI-R was developed as a personality test with a mean bandwidth for various tasks of psychological diagnosis, but has an application focus in the areas of psychosomatic, psychotherapy, rehabilitation, chronic diseases and health psychology.

Gahini

Gahini hospital, established and maintained by the CMS, is one of the largest in the Eastern Province with facilities including maternity, orthopaedic surgery, HIV treatment, a rehabilitation centre for persons with physical disabilities and an eye clinic used by patients from across Rwanda.

Gaspard Fauteux

In Parliament, Fauteux opposed conscription and was a delegate to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Conference that followed World War II.

Gustave Marinius Heiss

From 1947 to 1955 he worked as chief of vocational rehabilitation and education at the Veterans Administration.

Hamid Slimi

Slimi is considered as a candidate to play a role in Canadian Guantanamo captive/detainee Omar Khadr's rehabilitation, if and when he returns to Canada.

IWAS World Games

The Games were originally held in 1948 by neurologist Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who organized a sporting competition involving World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital rehabilitation facility in Stoke Mandeville, England, taking place concurrently with the first post-war Summer Olympics in London.

J. C. Mack

Intense rehabilitation saw him make a full recovery in October 2011, spending November training in Denmark with FC Fyn.

James Ruse Agricultural High School

It also contains some riparian land which is currently being monitored and undergoing rehabilitation to its native state by the Streamwatch group (currently working as part of Sydney Water Streamwatch).

Longford Prize

The 2005 prize was awarded to Steven Taylor, Director of the Forum on Prisoner Education for promoting the rehabilitation and re-integration of prisoners into society.

Melih Gökçek

Speaking at the ceremony, WWO's board member Elaine Valdov said that Ankara had experienced a serious water shortage problem from 2007 to 2008, and "Kızılırmak River Rehabilitation Project" had been initiated under the guidance of Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek to solve the matter.

Memorial Hermann Healthcare System

:* Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) underwent rehabilitation at this location in 2011.

Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre

Specialist services, such as the treatment of Osteomyelitis and bone tumours, and the rehabilitation of those with limb amputation or congenital deficiency, and those with neurological disabilities are provided for patients from across the UK and abroad.

Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Centre

Rescued animals that are deemed suitable for release into the wild are relocated to a Wildlife Rehabilitation Station (WRS) created by Wildlife Alliance in Koh Kong Province, Cambodia.

Placer Dome

In New South Wales Australia, Placer Dome obtained ownership of the defunct Timbarra Gold Mine, where it achieved some local acclaim for setting new, higher State standards for mining rehabilitation.

Prisons in India

The primary objective of Borstal Schools is to ensure care, welfare and rehabilitation of young offenders in an environment suitable for children and keep them away from contaminating atmosphere of the prison.

Pyotr Krasnov

On January 17, 2008, Victor Vodolatsky, Ataman of Don Cossacks and a deputy of the United Russia party in the Russian Duma signed a controversial decree regarding creation of a workgroup for rehabilitation of Pyotr Krasnov.

Rajko Mitić

He almost never missed a game, except in 1947, when he had to go to rehabilitation after a knee meniscus operation.

Ramaswami Venkataswami

Professor Ramaswami Venkataswami is a plastic surgeon, founder of the Institute for the Research and Rehabilitation of Hand and the Department of Plastic Surgery (IRRH and DPS) of Stanley Medical College and Hospitals (SMC), Chennai, India.

REGI

Raptor Education Group Inc., wildlife rehabilitation centre in Wisconsin, USA

Rory Alec

An orphanage Alec supports is Kondanani Children’s Village in Malawi, founded by Annie Chikhwaza which has named its Community Rehabilitation facility after him.

Roy Myrie

After the winter he injured his knee and had a long period of rehabilitation.

Rumex acetosella

From the 1950s, the New South Wales Soil Conservation Service undertook an extensive rehabilitation program for the vegetation of the Carruthers PeakMount Twynam area, which was in dire need of growth after a century of grazing.

Seal Rehabilitation and Research Centre

The Seal Rehabilitation and Research Centre (SRRC; Dutch: Zeehondencrèche Lenie 't Hart) is located in Pieterburen, Netherlands.

Sexuality and disability

Founded in 1978, it is described by its publisher, Springer Publishing, as "A Journal Devoted to the Psychological and Medical Aspects of Sexuality in Rehabilitation and Community Settings".

Siptah

: "The only ruler of the period who could have promoted such destruction was Amenmesse, and likewise he was the only king whose offspring would have required such explicit promotion. The demolition of this figure is likely to have closely followed the fall of Bay or the death of Siptah himself, when any shortlived rehabilitation of Amenmesse would have ended".

Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation

During the period 2002 to 2005 TRO operated from offices across Sri Lanka in both Government and LTTE controlled areas providing post war and post tsunami relief and rehabilitation to Tamil community.

The Stone Clinic

The Stone Clinic is a sports medicine clinic in San Francisco, California, offering orthopaedic surgery and medical care, physical therapy and rehabilitation, and radiology imaging services.

Trudy McFall

She has served on the boards and as an officer with many national housing and planning organizations, including the boards of the National Housing Conference, the National Leased Housing Association, the National Housing and Rehabilitation Association, the National Council of State Housing Agencies, the Housing & Development Reporter, and the Tax Credit Advisor.

Trust PA

He underwent 5 months of rehabilitation at a specialist unit at Salisbury District Hospital, but then unexpectedly died from a pulmonary embolism in January 2002, aged 26.

Uplift Humanity India

Most recently, it has been honored by Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Gujarat, who has supported Uplift Humanity India's rehabilitation programs.

Vikas Upadhyay

Launched an Anti Drug Programme educating the people about the ill effects of Drugs and helping families in the rehabilitation of the people effected in their family.

W. I. M. Seneviratne

After the ceremonial opening of the outlet, de Silva proceeded towards his Mitsubishi Pajero vehicle belonging to the Sri Lanka Army Medical Corps to continue onto a meeting with officers in charge of rehabilitation work at the Jaffna Kachcheri.

When She Woke

When She Woke is a reimagining of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, set in a future dystopian and theocratic America where rather than imprisonment and rehabilitation, punishment for a crime consists of being "chromed" - having the skin color genetically altered based on the crime they committed - and released into the general population.

William Lai

Born in Wanli, a rural coastal town in northern Taipei County (now New Taipei City) on October 6, 1959, Lai underwent schooling in Taipei City and studied at both National Cheng Kung University in Tainan and National Taiwan University in Taipei, where he specialized in rehabilitation.

World Horse Welfare

Horses needing attention are taken into one of charities four Recovery and Rehabilitation Centres, based in Norfolk, Somerset, Lancashire and Aberdeenshire.

Yekaterina Lobaznyuk

She had not one, but two surgeries, since the first one in Moscow, Russia was not performed properly; the second was done in Johannesburg, South Africa, while visiting the city and country for a rehabilitation stint.


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