Senior Physician
in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM) and Gerontology
& Geriatrics (GG) PhD/
Post-Graduate Tutor - at the (State) University of Medicine and Pharmacy ”Carol
Davila”, Bucharest, Romania Head of the
P(neural-muscular)RM Discipline/ Clinic Division ? the National Reference
Center for NeuroRehabilitation - and of its RDI Nucleus, and RDI (ex) Director,
at the Teaching Emergency Hospital "Bagdasar-Arseni", in Bucharest,
Romania President of the
Romanian Society for NeuroRehabilitation (RoSNeRa) - affiliated to the World
Federation of NeuroRehabilitation (WFNR) - and Member of the WFNR Council President of the
Romanian Spinal Cord Society (RoSCoS) - affiliated to the International Spinal
Cord Society (ISCoS) and to the European Spinal Cord Injury Federation (ESCIF)
Rapporteur on Chronic Conditions Management and respectively, for Healthy and
Active Ageing, of the Comite Permanent/ Standing Committee of the European
Doctors (CPME) Founder Member
of the Honorary Editorial Board of the Journal of Neurorestoratology
Dear fellows and
friends,
The International Biophilia Academy Rehabilitation
Conference - IBR(A)C - has now reached to its 13th Edition, that will be held
on 19-18 July, 2016, in Geneva/ Switzerland. Since the beginning of my actual Greetings I
want to emphasize that IBRA and its annual related Workshop - to be held on
27-28 April, in Japan - and respectively, above mentioned Conference, has
advanced to a new level regarding one of the major goals of this Academy: to
give a welcome supplementary input - aiming at a positively somehow
”restructuring” of (Neuro)”Rehab. Medicine” - for bettering the currently
obtained outcomes in the, especially sorely, chronic neurological conditions’
approach. This is because the respective results, unfortunately, do not yet
fully match the expectations of very numerous (and growing in number -
including within a continuous and accelerated demographic aging population,
i.e. with more elderly, that are prone to multi-morbidity, among which neural-motor/sensorial-/psycho-cognitive/communicational,
disorders, are some of the most severe impairments, but/and at the same time,
being targets for rehabilitative/assistive endeavors) severely disabled persons
and therefore, in need including for (Neuro)Rehabilitation (and/or -
encompassing - assistive facilities/devices and afferent technologies, to be
used and improved, too). Accordingly, as
an academic physician of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (with special
focus on NeuroRehabilitation and President/ Co-Founder, including of the Romanian
Society for NeuroRehabilitation - RoSNeRa - affiliated to the World Federation
for NeuroRehabilitation ? WFNR) and respectively, of Gerontology and
Geriatrics, I salute the focus of both, the Workshop and the Conference, this
year, on the brain impairments’ recovery through a patented, newer
rehabilitative technique and specifically, by standing on the ”Preparation for
the Randomized control trial of the passive exercise vs. the Motivative
exercise”
The collaboration of the RoSNeRa with the
IBRA started in 2011, when the Bioophilia annual Workshop has been held in
Bucharest/ Romania and has been consolidated, over time, including with the
contribution of its President, together with some diligent colleagues, members
of the RoSNeRa, to the development of the Biophilia Journal. The collaboration of the RoSNeRa with the
IBRA started in 2011, when the Bioophilia annual Workshop has been held in
Bucharest/ Romania and has been consolidated, over time, including with the
contribution of its President, together with some diligent colleagues, members
of the RoSNeRa, to the development of the Biophilia Journal. The collaboration of the RoSNeRa with the
IBRA started in 2011, when the Bioophilia annual Workshop has been held in
Bucharest/ Romania and has been consolidated, over time, including with the
contribution of its President, together with some diligent colleagues, members
of the RoSNeRa, to the development of the Biophilia Journal. Through
this new and hopefully very fruitful international academic joint event, we
want, including with the contribution of the above mentioned Romanian
scientific society - and of others which activate in the Rehabilitation fieled -
to make a step forward in the (Neuro)Rehabilitation multidisciplinary
collaborative research, at a global level, in order to more efficiently meet
the health - but not exclusively - needs of a suffering population, as afore
characterized. The collaboration of the RoSNeRa with the
IBRA started in 2011, when the Bioophilia annual Workshop has been held in
Bucharest/ Romania and has been consolidated, over time, including with the
contribution of its President, together with some diligent colleagues, members
of the RoSNeRa, to the development of the Biophilia Journal. To be also pointed out our common endeavors to develop, at global level,
Rehabilitation, are subsumed in the general very strong and important trend
towards multimodal combating of disabilities, supported and boosted by
the World Health Organization (WHO), together, mainly, with the International
Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM), the World Federation
for NeuroRehabilitation (WFNR), the International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS)
and the World Bank. As it is known, on the 23rd of May 2014, the 67th World
Health Assembly endorsed the “WHO global disability action plan 2014-2021:
Better health for all people with disability” and, as it is determined
within a very recent related press release of the ISPRM Leadership: ”Disability
and Rehabilitation is now a major area of the agenda of WHO”. Therefore,
I consider the conjunction of the 13th IBRC, like I have asserted at the
beginning, an important - including of organizational global collaborative,
kind - advancement. So, personally and on behalf of my Romanian colleagues
who are actively working for the overall development and improvement of
(Neuro)Rehabilitation, I wish a great success to the 13th IBRC annual Conference.
