Resources
(updated August 2024)
- WHO 2016 - Minimum technical standards and recommendations for rehabilitation for EMTs
http://www.who.int/disabilities/emergencies/en/
- WHO 2013 - Guidance note on disability and emergency risk management for health
http://www.who.int/disabilities/emergencies/en/
Official Committee Publications, Presentations and Posters (reverse chronological)
in support of an official activity or commissioned by the ISPRM President's Cabinet
2021
- Khan F, Amatya B. THE 2021 DELISA LECTURE: Update in disaster rehabilitation: an International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM) perspective. Am J Phy Med Rehabil 2021 Apr 13 (Epub ahead of publication) Doi: 10.1097/PHM.0000000000001760
- Li Ja, Xia W, Zhan C, Liu S, Yin Z, Wang J, et al. Effectiveness of a telerehabilitation program for COVID-19 survivors (TERECO) on exercise capacity, pulmonary function, lower limb muscle strength, and quality of life: a randomized controlled trial. medRxiv 2021: 2021.2003.2008.21253007.
2020
- Lee SY, Mansoor SN, et al. Functional outcome and community reintegration of survivors following disasters: a community-based survey in Pakistan. JISPRM 2021;4:90-9.
- Khan F, Amatya B. Medical rehabilitation in pandemics: towards a new perspective. J Rehabil Med 2020; 20: jrm00043.
- Amatya B, Khan F. Rehabilitation Response in Pandemics. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 2020; 99(8):663-8.
- Amatya B, Khan F. COVID-19 in developing countries: a rehabilitation perspective. J Int Soc Phy Rehab Med 2020 2020; 3(2): 69-74.
- Song K, Khan F. Cancer rehabilitation during the COVID-19 pandemic: an overview of special consideration. J Int Soc Phy Rehab Med 2020; 3(2): 38-44.
- Li J. Insights on the impact of rehabilitation medicine on COVID-19 management. J Int Soc Phy Rehab Med 2020; 3(2):35-7
- Reinhardt JD, Zhang X, Van Dyke C, Ehrmann C, Li L, Zhao Z, Zhou M & Li H (2020): Post-traumatic stress disorder in a population of 2008 Wenchuan earthquake survivors with disabilities: the role of environmental barriers, Disabil Rehabil 2020, DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2020.1714756
- Lee SY, Amatya B, Galea MP, Khan F. Preparedness among medical rehabilitation professionals for deployment to future disaster settings. JISPRM 2020;3(1):5-10.
- Uddin T, Islam MT, Rahim HR, Islam MJ, Hossiane MS, Hassan MI, et al. Rehabilitation Perspectives of COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh. J Bangladesh Coll Phys Surg 2020; 38: 76-81) DOI: https://doi.org/10.3329/jbcps.v38i0.47345
- Ahmad I, Rathore FA. Neurological manifestations and complications of COVID-19: a literature review. Preprints 2020, 2020040. doi: 10.20944/preprints202004.0453.v1.
- Kimuli Balikuddembe J, Zeng X, Chen C. Health-Related Rehabilitation after the 2008 Great Wenchuan Earthquake in China: A Ten Year Retrospective Systematic Review. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Mar 29;17(7):2297. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17072297.
- Reinhardt J, Fu B, Balikuddembe J. Healthcare Challenges After Disasters in Lesser Developed Countries. From; the Oxford Research Encyclopedia, natural hazard science (oxfordre.com/naturalhazardscience); 2019; Oxford University Press, USA. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199389407.013.337.
- Amatya B, Lee SY, Galea M, Khan F. Disaster Rehabilitation Response Plan: now or never. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 2020, 99: 170-177
- Lee SY, Amatya B, et al. Clinical practice guidelines for rehabilitation in traumatic brain injury: a critical appraisal. Brain Injury, 33:10, 1263-1271.
- Lee SY, Amatya B, et al. Applicability of traumatic brain injury rehabilitation interventions in natural disaster settings, Brain Injury, 33:1293-8.
2019
- Uddin T, Islam MT, Rathore FA, O’ConnelL C. Disability and rehabilitation medicine in Bangladesh: current scenario and future perspectives. J Int Soc Phy Rehab Med 2019; 2(4):168-77.
- Khan F, Amatya B, et al. Rehabilitation in disaster relief (Invited Chapter). Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am 2019, 30:723–47.
- Li J, Li LSW. Development of rehabilitation in China. Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am 2019; 30: 769-774.
- Uddin T, Islam MT, Gosney JE. 2017 Bangladesh landslides: physical rehabilitation perspective. Disabil Rehabil 2019: 1-8.
- Uddin T, Khasru MR, et al. Rehabilitation in Bangladesh. Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am 2019; 30: 795-805.
- Dhakal R, Groves CC. Rehabilitation in Nepal. Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am 2019, 30:787–794.
- Geberemichael, SG, Tannor AY, et al. Rehabilitation in Africa. Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am 2019;30:757-68.
- Alnattah M, Gosney Jr JE. Physical Rehabilitation of Orthopedic Conditions in Austere Environments. Gosselin et al. (eds.), in Global Orthopedics, 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland; page: 549-554.
2018
- Khan F, Amatya B, Avirmed B, Yi YK, Shirmen B, Tsegmid N, Abbott G, Galea MP. WHO Global Disability Action Plan: the Mongolian Perspective. J Rehabil Med 2018; 50: 358–366.
- Khan F, Amatya B, de Groote W, Owolabi MO, Syed I, Hajjoui A, Babur MN, Sayed TM, Frizzell Y, Naicker AS, Fourtassi M, Elmalik A, Galea MP. Capacity-Building in Clinical Skills of Rehabilitation Workforce in Low- and Middle- Income Countries. J Rehabil Med 2018 50(5):472-479.
- Khan F, Owolabi MO, Amatya B, Hamzat TK, Ogunniyi A, Oshinowo H, Elmalik A, Galea MP. Challenges and barriers for implementation of the WHO Global Disability Action Plan in Low- and Middle- Income Countries. J Rehabil Med 2018; 50: 367–376.
- Amatya B, Vasudevan V, Zhang N, Chopra S, Astrakhantseva I, Khan F. Emergency Medical Team-Minimum Technical Standards and Recommendation for TBI Specialists Care Team. J Int Soc Phy Rehab Med 2018:5(5):2018.
2017
- Khan F, Amatya B, Sayed TM, Butt AW, Jamil K, Iqbal W, Elmalik A, Rathore FA, Abbott G. The World Health Organisation - Disability Action Plan 2014–2021: Challenges and Perspectives for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Pakistan. J Rehabil Med 2017; 49: 10–21.
- Khan F, Amatya B. Refugee health and rehabilitation: challenges and response. J Rehabil Med 2017 49: 378–384
- Amatya B, Galea MP, Li J, Khan F. Medical rehabilitation in disaster relief: towards a new perspective. J Rehabil Med 2017;:49: 620-628.
- Philippine Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine aid mission project (November 2013–February 2014): the role of physiatrists in Super Typhoon Haiyan (Publication)
Previous ISPRM World Congresses
- Program
- 2016 earthquake in central Italy - Germano Pestelli (Italy)
- Financial perspectives in disaster management - Taslim Uddin (Bangladesh)
- Christchurch earthquake - The New Zealand experience - Shaun Xiong (New Zealand)
- Update in disaster management in China - Jianan Li (China)
- Medical rehabilitation in natural disasters in the Pacific Island countries - Bhasker Amatya (Australia)
- Programme
- Experience Of Telemedicine After 2015 Mega Earthquake Disaster At Spinal Injury Rehabilitation Centre, Nepal
- Use of the SIMFER Mobile Tent to Provide Rehabilitation Services in Italy following Earthquakes
- Nature Call Awakening the Sleeping MARP
- Medical Rehabilitation in Natural Disasters
- WHO Emergency Medical Team Initiative & ‘WHO minimum technical standards and recommendations for rehabilitation for EMTs (ISPRM-WHOII Session)
- Analysis of Early Physical Rehabilitation (EPR) activities and impact on the local rehabilitation system after the destruction of Kunduz Trauma Care Center in Afghanistan (Short Oral Session)
- Disability and environmental factors in spinal cord injured 2008 Wenchuan earthquake victims seven years after the disaster (E-poster)
- Functional recovery of trauma patients receiving early physical rehabilitation in the Kunduz (Afghanistan) MSF Trauma Center (E-poster)
- Rapid implementation of medical rehabilitation team at Spinal Injury Rehabilitation Centre, Nepal during the 2015 Earthquake (E-poster)
- Programme (ISPRM CRDR Rehabilitation Disaster Relief [RDR] Proceedings)
- Global Rehabilitation Disaster Relief: WHO Emergency Medical Team Initiative & ISPRM CRDR (International Collaboration Plenary Session)
- Development of the Nepalese Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (NAPM&R) (International Collaboration Plenary Session)
- Epidemiology of Natural Disasters in Asia-Oceania (RDR Track: Experience in AO Region)
- PARM Disaster Response Program' (RDR Track: Experience in AO Region)
- Nepal 2015 Earthquake Disaster Response Rehab; lessons learnt in the field: Bangladesh FMT (RDR Track: Experience in AO Region)
- Rehabilitation Response in Disasters: the Malaysian Experience' (RDR Track: Experience in AO Region)
- RDR in Iran' (RDR Track: Experience in AO Region)
- Assessment Of Humanitarian Competencies Using The CBHA Core Humanitarian Competencies Framework: Do You Have The Right Stuff' (Educational Workshop)
- Programme
- The NHV model in disaster rehabilitation
- PARM CARES: model ISPRM national society disaster rehabilitation program
- Preparing and training rehabilitation professionals for deployment in disasters: the example of the UK International Emergency Trauma Register
- Rehabilitation in natural disaster: focusing South East Asia regional cooperation
- Programme ('Rehabilitation Doctors as Leaders on Rehabilitation Response Teams in Disasters’)
- Emilio Earthquake (Italy; 2012)
- Great East Japan Earthquake & Tsunami: activities in the Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine (JARM) and Niigata prefecture (2011)
- Role of the philippine physiatrist in a large-scale natural disaster: the PARM experience in Typhoon Haiyan (Philippines; 2013)
- Cyclone SIDR & Savar building collapse (Bangladesh; 2007, 2013)
- Role of PRM doctors and therapists interacting with NGOs in disaster relief and challenging settings: Handicap International perspective
- Injury patterns and projected rehabilitation needs as a result of the January 12, 2010 Earthquake in Haiti
- Leadership in disaster management: Nepal Earthquake (2015)
- Guidance document questionnaire (Presentation)
- A comprehensive rehabilitation service improves functioning and quality of life in spinal cord injured earthquake victims
- Role of a foreign non-profit rehabilitation association in a large-scale natural disaster: the PAPA experience in typhoon Haiyan, a program report (Poster)
- Role of the philippine physiatrist in a large-scale natural disaster
- Training seminars for disaster rehabilitation coordinators to prepare for massive disasters in Japan (Poster)
- Programme
- Building the ISPRM disaster acute rehabilitation team (DART) program
- Developing the ISPRM registry of rehabilitation disaster relief experts
- Development of an ISPRM rapid rehabilitation response capability in support of the WHO FMT (Foreign Medical Team) initiative
- Lessons learned from the experience of the Great East Japan earthquake and disaster
- Long-term effectiveness and efficiency of rehabilitation services delivery for victims with disabilities from the 2008 Sichuan earthquake
- Rehabilitation disaster relief: theory, science and practice
- Role of PRM doctors and therapists interacting with NGO's in disaster relief and challenging settings: Handicap International perspective
- Disaster in Bangladesh: Savar building collapse (Committee Business Session)
- Programme
- Barriers and opportunities to the Iimplementation of a comprehensive rehabilitation strategy in post-earthquake Haiti
- Challenges in rehabilitation nursing in case of natural disasters in third world countries
- Comparison of patient education in rehabilitation of spinal cord injuries in Switzerland and in low economic countries
- Comprehensive rehabilitation on amputation patients after crush injuries sustained during the Wenchuan earthquake
- Faced with the Great Eastern Japan earthquake disaster – what can the Japanese association of rehabilitation medicine (JARM) do ?
- Haiti - from a post earthquake visit of one month to a collaboration of five years. Building a rehabilitation center for SCI patients
- Medical rehabilitation after disasters: why, when, how?
- A new institutional based rehabilitation model after the Sichuan earthquake in China
- Quality of life and social function of earthquake survivors with spinal cord injury one year after returning to community
- Rehabilitation disaster relief: value of a regional large rehabilitation institution after Sichuan earthquake
- Rehabilitation needs in persons with spinal cord injuryin post-earthquake Haiti
- SCI rehabilitation in post earthquake Haiti - early responses, critical successes, and longer term challenges
- Surgical and rehabilitation interventions in response to the Haiti earthquake
- Training of local rehabilitation service providers: a milestone towards effectiveness and long-term sustainability of post-disaster interventions