Health Education

A mobile rehabilitation and health education intervention may enhance recovery and improve physical performance for older patients with hip fractures at 3 months postoperatively, according to published data.

Cost, insurance, transport and accessibility, eye health literacy and communication were identified as major barriers to eye care among U.S. adults, with telemedicine cited as a possible solution, according to a systematic review in Cureus.

Despite clinical improvements in patients who received education and exercise for hip osteoarthritis, patients who underwent total hip arthroplasty had greater improvements in pain relief, function and quality of life, according to results.

The addition of self-administered acupressure to knee health education sessions may relieve pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis, according to published results.

Results showed a home-based exercise and health education intervention decreased pain and improved function and knee muscle strength compared with no exercise for patients with patellofemoral pain.

LAS VEGAS — A new Johnson & Johnson Vision campaign is promoting the importance of eye health by sharing real-life stories of patients, Carla Calizaire, the company’s vice president of sales for North American vision care, told Healio.

The nonprofit organization Optometry Giving Sight has launched its 2023 World Sight Day Challenge, with this year’s theme, “Giving Together, Seeing Forever,” celebrating the collective optometry community caring for those in need.

Patellofemoral joint education was notable at the recent ISAKOS Congress in Boston. Much of the education and research was presented by past and present Patellofemoral Foundation board members, award winners and traveling fellows. 

SAN FRANCISCO — Providing educational resources to people who serve as authority figures in the lives of children and young people may enable prevention and earlier treatment of mental illness, a presenter here said.

SEATTLE — In this video, Susan E. Coffin, MD, MPH, attending physician and hospital epidemiologist at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about a new project to improve nosocomial infection prevention.