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 is considered to aid in the removal of inflammatory exudates, tracheobronchial secretions, and airway blockages, as well reduction resistance, order promote breathing gas exchange. Aims study: This study aimed evaluate effectiveness educational program on improve nurses knowledge about using physiotherapy remove sputum for children with pneumonia. Methodology: A pre–ex...

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 ...

[Purpose] The aim of this prospective, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study was to evaluate the effects of therapeutic continuous ultrasound (US) on patients with rotator cuff disease. [Subjects and Methods] Twenty-two patients were treated with a standard physiotherapy program consisting of a hot-pack, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), exercises, and US that was...

The needs of people living with HIV (PLWH) who have access to antiretroviral therapy shifted from hospital community care; however, little is known about physiotherapy within community-based care. Our aim was understand strengths and challenges implementing an interprofessional day health program in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. We conducted a qualitative descriptive study using semi-structured int...

OBJECTIVE To develop a decision support package for people with low back pain (LBP) referred for physiotherapy. METHODS We used a program of exploratory work, including literature reviews, a Delphi study, a nominal group with physiotherapists, focus groups with patients, and secondary analysis of existing interview data. RESULTS We developed an information booklet describing the evidence-ba...

STUDY DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. PURPOSE We compared the disability and functional outcome after conservative treatment with prolonged physiotherapy versus early surgical intervention in patients with lumbar disk herniation. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Lumbar disk herniation is one of the most common causes of job-related disability in individuals less than 45 years old. Conservative tr...

Introduction: Stroke is one of the most common diseases of the central nervous system and is a major cause of disability. Expected higher number of instances of stroke in the future is a challenge for physiotherapy, and therefore requires the introduction of innovative methods for rehabilitation of patients after stroke. Virtual rehabilitation is increasingly more often used in the process of r...

Thank you for this opportunity to share perspectives from our work within the Physiotherapy and Refugees Education Project, PREP, an Erasmus+ funded project KA2 strategic partnership program. Researchers, educators, students, clinicians institutions of higher education, health services humanitarian organisations, have worked together in define competencies that physiotherapists need working wit...