Expanding physiotherapy

Community physiotherapy or community-based physiotherapy

Dear Editor, The profession of physiotherapy gained recognition during the time of World War I,1 with services being rendered in acute-care as well as community settings. It can thus be inferred that physiotherapy services in and for the community could have begun as early as 1914. Since then, there has been ample research globally (developed world more than the developing) on this specializati...

Learning Physiotherapy: Physiotherapy students' ways of experiencing the patient encounter

Ways of experiencing the patient encounter 1 Ways of experiencing the patient encounter 2 ABSTRACT Background: The aim of the present paper is to describe and analyse the impact of

Physiotherapy results after nucleoplasty.

N is a method of surgery that has been referenced frequently, and is known to create minimal damage. However, there are limited publications that investigate physiotherapy techniques and procedures following the surgery. Our objective is to study the changes in the parameters of pain, disability, physical performance, kinesiophobia, fatigue, and physical activity of patients operated upon by lu...

Hydrotherapy and Physiotherapy

Physiotherapy for pusher behaviour.

We read with interest the article by Broetz and Karnath recently published in NeuroRehabilitation [1]. The main contribution addressed in the article is that visual feedback is the most important factor to restore the ability to re-align the body in patients having pusher syndrome. In fact, according to the authors, the visual vertical is not impaired in these patients, and they can be trained ...