Positioning

Positioning is a therapeutic intervention strategy within rehabilitation practice that involves the systematic arrangement of the body or a body part in a specific alignment to optimize physiological function, prevent complications, and support developmental or recovery goals across contexts such as breastfeeding, burn recovery, management of physical and multiple disabilities, spinal cord injury rehabilitation, and rehabilitation engineering.

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Publications per year

2017–2026

296

Parents

BreastfeedingBurn RehabilitationMultiple DisabilitiesPhysical DisabilitiesRehabilitation EngineeringSpinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation

Children

Adaptive Positioning EquipmentBed PositioningBreastfeeding PositioningErgonomic PositioningHead PositioningImmobilization PositioningLimb PositioningNeck PositioningPatient Transfer PositioningPositioning Aids

Publications

1.3K

10/20, 10/10, and 10/5 systems revisited: Their validity as relative head-surface-based positioning systems

Valer Jurcak, Daisuke Tsuzuki, Ippeita Dan · NeuroImage · 2007 · 1.5K citations

Engineering, Optometry, Global Navigation Satellite Systems +6

AAS Position on the Space Station

Frank H. Shu · Science · 1994 · 800 citations

Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Astrodynamics +9

Recent Advances in Positioning Theory

Rom Harré, Fathali M. Moghaddam, Tracey Pilkerton Cairnie et al. · Theory & Psychology · 2009 · 693 citations

Social Sciences, Communication, Social Psychology +9

Positioning and SIDS

PEDIATRICS · 1992 · 683 citations

Public Health, Child Health, Pediatrics +15

Effects of systematic prone positioning in hypoxemic acute respiratory failure: a randomized controlled trial.

Claude Guérin, Sandrine Gaillard, Stéphane Lemasson et al. · PubMed · 2004 · 608 citations

Medicine, Physiology, Critical Care Respiratory Therapy +15

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Uwe Proske
Monash University, Australia
9 publications · 701 citations
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Trevor Allen
Monash University, Australia
8 publications · 454 citations
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Lawrence W. Schneider
University of Michigan, United States
6 publications · 319 citations
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Miriam A. Manary
University of Michigan, United States
5 publications · 294 citations
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Andrew R. Karduna
University of Oregon, United States
5 publications · 236 citations
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Spine
23 publications · 2.3K citations
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PubMed
Repository · 38 publications · 1.9K citations
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Experimental Brain Research
16 publications · 663 citations
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The Journal of Arthroplasty
15 publications · 883 citations
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International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics
15 publications · 703 citations
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