2016. Jeffrey Kleim. Regenerative Rehabiliation And Genomics- Editorial

Question 1

How is regenerative rehabilitation defined? And what is regenerative medicine?

(Kleim 2016)

Answer 1

• the integration of principles and approaches from the fields of rehabilaition science and regenerative medicine
• Regenerative medicine focuses on the enhancement of endogenous stem cell function or the transplantation of exogenous stem cells to repair or replace tissue function (from disease, injury, aging)

Question 2

What role could physical therapy have with regenerative medicine?

(2016 Kleim)

Answer 2

Ensuring that integration of regenerative medicine technologies into the host tissue is relevant in terms of function

Question 3

What did the human genome project birth? And when?

Answer 3

The birth of personalised medicine in 2003

Question 4

What is thought to mediate behavioural recovery in functional neurogenmoics?

(2016, Kleim)

Answer 4

Presence of genetic variations with genes encoding for ‘plasticity proteins’