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Benchmarking Intensive Care Physiotherapy Staffing in Australian Tertiary Hospitals [PDF]
Physiotherapy is an important component in the management of patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Existing guidelines on ICU physiotherapy staffing represent European settings and are not contemporary. With no specific recommendations in Australia,
Patman, Shane, Sun, Wenxing
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Physiotherapy in Indian communities: a brief review [PDF]
Background: Importance of community rehabilitation in India has been emphasized in previous research. There is ample research that has been published for different communities in the country.
Pavithra Rajan
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Bioethics and physiotherapy [PDF]
Physiotherapy raises serious bioethical questions that are far too little discussed. Concerns include the lack of a clearly defined end point, the closeness of interaction between therapist and patient, the patient's own share of responsibility, and the common failure to refer patients for rehabilitation.
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Leprosy in the past has been shrouded in mystery and characterised by deformity. While much more is known of the disease today, allowing the majority of patients to be treated without undue difficulty, physiotherapy in lep-rosy has grown out of a need to prevent, minimise and correct deformities caused by the disease.
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A critical perspective on stigma in physiotherapy: the example of weight stigma [PDF]
"Manipulating practices is the first ever collection of critical physiotherapy studies and comes at a time of unprecedented change in the profession. Written as a collaboration between 20 authors, many members of the Critical Physiotherapy Network (CPN),
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The term “maintenance physiotherapy” has crept into common usage as a term descriptive of service delivery patterns by physiotherapists, usually in the context of management of compensable patients. Flanagan and Green (2000) have attempted to arrive at a definition of the term “maintenance physiotherapy” and develop a consensus position regarding what ...
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Methods for Improving Quadriceps Femoris Strength after Total Knee Arthroplasty
Research background. The recovery of quadriceps femoris muscle strength after total knee arthroplasty is suboptimal. Quadriceps weakness is associated with decreased gait speed, balance, stair–climbing and chair rise ability, as well as increased risk ...
Toma Petkutė, Eglė Lendraitienė
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Effect of Physiotherapy on Balance and Gross Motor Skills in a Child With 16p11.2 Microdeletion
Background. The 16p11.2 microdeletion is one of the most commonly known causes of genetic neurodevelopmental disorders, manifesting in a variety of developmental and behavioral disorders and specific medical conditions.
Vaida Kerulienė +1 more
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Caregiver Perspectives on Physiotherapy Treatment for Paediatric Burns in the United Arab Emirates
Fatima Sultan Mohamed Muftah Alzaabi, Kalyana Chakravarthy Bairapareddy, Gopala Krishna Alaparthi, Fatma Hegazy Physiotherapy, College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab EmiratesCorrespondence: Fatma Hegazy, Physiotherapy ...
Mohamed Muftah Alzaabi FS +3 more
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Introduction: Medical doctors have profound influence on other health professions including physiotherapist as they are at the top of the pyramid of healthcare profession. There is a lack of knowledge of physiotherapy among medical doctors.
Prakash Mahto +2 more
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