This page shows all active posts from the category, Model of Illness. Posts in this category concern some aspect of models of illness, and frameworks used with rehabilitation. The biopsychosocial model and the biomedical model will be predominant, but other related models may be included. Posts generally relate to the relevance of the model to how rehabilitation is conceived and carried out.
Is Long Covid a functional disorder?
In 1978, I submitted my first paper to the British Medical Journal. It concerned what…
Is rehabilitation healthcare?
Hospitals are a part of the healthcare system, but is rehabilitation healthcare? The UK Department…
Assessment competency
At 02.00 hrs on November 29th, I had an epiphany, “a moment of sudden and…
Rehabilitation thinking
“Rehabilitation is a way of thinking, not a way of doing.” I have written two…
Convalescence, recovery, and rehabilitation
In 2007 Peter Halligan and I asked, “Is it time to rehabilitate convalescence?”. No one…
Community Rehabilitation
In 1980 I started a three-year project, a large (n = 700+) controlled clinical trial…
Frailty and rehabilitation
Is frailty a helpful concept within the rehabilitation context? I asked myself this question after…
Rehabilitation potential
What is a person’s ‘Rehabilitation Potential’? Often this question is asked by one clinician of…
Disease, illness, sickness, and disability
These are dangerous and difficult words used in many powerful ways: if considered disabled, you…
Covid, FND, and models
“Helping the Public Understand Adverse Events Associated With COVID-19 Vaccinations. Lessons Learned From Functional Neurological…
NICE on chronic pain
Today, 7th April 2021, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, otherwise known as…
Rehabilitation; a social service?
Two incidents precipitated this blog. During discussion after a talk on an evidence-based definition of…
Help change rehab.
This is a true incident. A friend of mine is helping out as a physiotherapist…
