HOME PHYSIOTHERAPY FOR THE AVERAGE PATIENT

Home Physiotherapy: The Relevance of Social Determinants of Health in the Development of Physiotherapy in the Home Environment

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

A Monitoring System for Home-Based Physiotherapy Exercises

This paper describes a robust, low-cost, vision based monitoring system for home-based physical therapy exercises. Our system contains two different modules. The first module achieves exercise recognition by building representations of motion patterns, stance knowledge, and object usage information in gray-level and depth video sequences and then combines these representations in a generative B...

Musculoskeletal physiotherapy: patient self-referral

QIPP Evidence provides users with practical case studies that address the quality and productivity challenge in health and social care. All examples submitted are evaluated by NICE. This evaluation is based on the degree to which the initiative meets the QIPP criteria of savings, quality, evidence and implementability; each criterion is given a score which are then combined to give an overall s...

Health promotion for the nursing home patient.

BACKGROUND The current nursing home population numbers at least 1.5 million and is growing. Although care of the nursing home patient has been emphasized recently, health promotion activities for these patients appear underused. Current recommendations for health promotion are based on expert opinion, because well-controlled studies to support such activities in the elderly are lacking for most...