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Alison Rushton
Researcher at University of Western Ontario
Publications - 243
Citations - 3845
Alison Rushton is an academic researcher from University of Western Ontario. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Systematic review. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 210 publications receiving 2768 citations. Previous affiliations of Alison Rushton include Arthritis Research UK & Coventry University.
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Video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy: which patients require postoperative physiotherapy?
Paula Agostini,Paula Agostini,Paula Agostini,Sebastian T Lugg,Kerry Adams,T. Smith,Maninder S Kalkat,Pala B. Rajesh,Richard Steyn,Babu Naidu,Babu Naidu,Alison Rushton,Ehab Bishay +12 more
TL;DR: Following VATS lobectomy a large proportion of patients demonstrated issues potentially amenable to physiotherapy, and the authors recommend that patients receive routine physiotherapy assessment following this type of surgery to ensure that all issues are identified early.
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Perceptions of Australian physiotherapy students about the potential implementation of physiotherapist prescribing in Australia: a national survey.
TL;DR: Student physiotherapists support the introduction of physiotherapist prescribing in Australia, reporting potential benefits for patients, health services and the physiotherapy profession.
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A Delphi study to explore and gain consensus regarding the most important barriers and facilitators affecting physiotherapist and pharmacist non-medical prescribing
TL;DR: In this article, a three-round Delphi study was conducted with pharmacist and physiotherapist prescribers, where participants were asked to rate the importance of statements to themselves, with the highest ranked statement being: "Being able to prescribe to patients is more effective and really useful working [in my area]".
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The effectiveness of manual therapy applied to craniomandibular structures in the treatment of temporomandibular disorders: protocol for a systematic review
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the effectiveness of manual therapy on the craniomandibular structures (CMMT) for the treatment of TMD using randomized controlled trials.
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Does gender and ankle injury history affect weightbearing dorsiflexion in elite artistic gymnasts
TL;DR: Gymnasts with a unilateral injury history have significantly less WBDF in the injured limb compared to the contralateral uninjured limb, and females have lessWBDF than males, however this was not significant.