Mobility inside and outside the home, and in the community, is important to independence of lifestyle after stroke. Existing measures lack content validity relating to these three environments. The aim of this study was to contribute to the content validity phase of developing a new scale for assessing mobility of people with stroke in these settings. An open-ended questionnaire was used to obt...

BACKGROUND Physiotherapy with exercises is generally recommended in the treatment of patients with subacromial impingement syndrome (SIS). OBJECTIVE We aimed to investigate the use of physiotherapy in patients with SIS in Danish hospital settings as part of initial non-surgical treatment and after SIS-related surgery and to evaluate to which extent sex, socio-demographic and clinical factors ...

BACKGROUND Globally, neck pain is the fourth most common condition associated with longer periods of living with disability. Annually, approximately 0.3% of the population of Western countries undergo whiplash trauma, and half of those individuals will develop chronic problems with high costs for the individual and society. Evidence for chronic whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) treatment is s...

INTRODUCTION International clinical guidelines consistently endorse the promotion of self-management (SM), including physical activity for patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) and osteoarthritis (OA). Patients frequently receive individual treatment and advice to self-manage from physiotherapists in primary care, but the successful implementation of a clinical and cost-effective group SM ...

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...

Daily chest physiotherapy is a key part of Cystic Fibrosis care. The challenges to completing in the 0–5 year old age group are variable and unique. Adherence therapy optimize lung health children who not yet eligible for modulator therapy. As Quality Improvement initiative, physiotherapists at BC Children’s Hospital CF Clinic sought identify barriers daily order improve long-term adherence. An...

In 2021 there will be an increase in population Indonesia with East Java being the second most populous and Malang Raya one of cities highest number people according to data from Ministry Health. This has resulted phenomenon emergence many independent health service clinics, which is physiotherapy clinic, especially homecare services meet needs public services. Providing pay attention quality f...

background: in isfahan, the second metropolitan in iran, there are 1448 dentistry treatment centers that most of them are inefficient. today, efficiency is the most important issue in health care centers as well as dentistry clinics. the goal of this research is to investigate the affordability and efficiency of dentistry clinics in isfahan province, iran. methods: the current work is a quantit...

CPET is the gold standard measure of fitness for PwCF in UK. The All Wales Adult CF Centre (AWACFC) established a specific physiotherapy led service to enhance disease monitoring and personalise exercise prescribing. Specific training was undertaken by Physiotherapy clinician teams. protocols safety, risk assessment, infection control, data collection, patient MDT feedback were established. sta...