In the present study, 107 patients (72 males and 35 females) completed self-report measures of depression, distortion, disability, and pain intensity at three points during their rehabilitation: (1) admission to a 3-week comprehensive functional restoration program, (2) discharge from the comprehensive phase, and (3) 4-6 weeks later at their first post-program evaluation. Various range-of-motion measures were also collected at these same times using inclinometry. Results demonstrated significant improvements on all measures which were maintained into follow-up. Patients were also subsequently grouped into depressed and non-depressed at admission, and both groups demonstrated significant improvement across time. Additionally, patients were divided into high and low distortion groups. High general cognitive distortion patients did not show improvement on 3 of the 5 range of motion, or pain intensity scores, although they did improve on their depression, distortion, and disability scores. Findings also suggested thatlow back pain-related cognitive distortion may be considered a state or situational factor, whereasgeneral cognitive distortion appears to be more of a trait characteristic.
With the advent of touch probe technology, it was discovered that current closed architecture controllers do not provide adequate resources to support the implementation of process data acquisition on the shop floor. At AlliedSignal Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, a process data acquisition system has been developed for a flexible manufacturing system utilizing touch probes and customized software which allows fixture and cutting tool related information for an entire process to be captured and stored for off-line analysis. The implementation of this system, the difficulties and pitfalls, will be presented along with the functionality required for an open architecture controller to properly support process data acquisition.
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