Cochrane Rehabilitation is delighted to announce the appointment of Jenny Clarke to its Advisory Board, in collaboration with SameYou.

The BDH Federal Association for Rehabilitation — a charity serving people with neuro-disabilities through clinical services, social rehabilitation support, and research for more than 100 years — announces this biennial award to continue into 2024. It is named after Professor Otto Löwenstein in recognition of his contribution to neurological research. Entries for the BDH Otto Löwenstein Research Award are welcome from clinicians, researchers and allied health professionals. The submission deadline is April 15, 2024.

World EBHC Day is celebrated on October 20 in partnership with JBI, Cochrane, the Campbell Collaboration, Guidelines International Network (GIN), the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care, and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).  

In collaboration with the European Society of PRM (ESPRM) and the UEMS PRM Section and Board, the European Rehabilitation Robotics School has developed an innovative approach to education through their annual summer school called the Robotic Rehabilitation Summer School (R2S2).

Join us October 12–15 for the SIMFER congress in beautiful Bologna!

Prof. J.S. (Hans) Rietman is a physical and rehabilitation medicine physician and professor in Rehabilitation Medicine at the Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Technology, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.

It’s our great pleasure to announce our new Memorandum of Understanding with the Mediterranean Forum of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation-MFPRM, signed during the closing ceremony of the MFPRM congress in Rome on July 6-8th by the president Prof. Dr. Milica Lazovic!

The World Rehabilitation Alliance was recently launched in Geneva, during the 3rd Global Rehabilitation 2030 meeting, with 82 founding organizations.

On Friday, June 23, 2023 (02:30 - 03:30 PM -GMT + 7), a webinar titled "Drives Evidence and Methods by Cochrane to the World of Rehabilitation” will be held by the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Padjadjaran University, Indonesia. This webinar will provide valuable insights into rehabilitation research and methodology. Two lectures hosted by Carlotte Kiekens and Stefano G.

The WHO announced that a landmark resolution on “Strengthening rehabilitation in health systems” was adopted by 194 Members States at the 76th World Health Assembly. The resolution responds to the large global need for rehabilitation and the significant gap in the availability of services, especially in low- and middle-income countries, with as much as 50% of people not receiving the rehabilitation they require.