2.4 billion people worldwide have health conditions that could benefit from rehabilitation. Prioritising #rehabilitation and growing the workforce is necessary to meet increasing global demand, say @sivanmanoj and @ProfNegrini bmj.com/content/384/bm…
@bmj_latest @sivanmanoj @ProfNegrini The word "could" is doing a lot of work here. The claim is not evidence-based and many of the studies on efficacy of rehabilitation are of low quality (combination of lack of blinding with subjective outcome ratings - this is never considered acceptable for pharma trials).
@bmj_latest @sivanmanoj @ProfNegrini This includes severe eating disorders. Instead of promoting palliative care for young adults
@bmj_latest @AlarcosC @sivanmanoj @ProfNegrini It is still a problematic that the focus for LMICs is on specialist rehabilitation professionals and not on midlevel multidisciplinary more generalist ones. LMICs cannot afford large numbers of therapists. The few that work in such countries don’t want work outside cities