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JournalISSN: 1013-7025

Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal 

World Scientific
About: Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal is an academic journal published by World Scientific. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Medicine & Randomized controlled trial. It has an ISSN identifier of 1013-7025. It is also open access. Over the lifetime, 298 publications have been published receiving 2685 citations.


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TL;DR: A systematic review of studies that assess the effect of smartphone use on musculoskeletal disorders and pain found that muscle activity of upper trapezius, erector spinae and the neck extensor muscles are increased as well as head flexion angle, head tilt angle and forward head shifting which increased during the smartphone use.

69 citations

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TL;DR: Balance, stability and functional performance significantly improved in the elderly, postmenopausal women and neurological patients treated with whole body vibration loading parameters, and the most frequent vibratory stimulation loading parameters used were 3–6 Hz and 3 mm amplitude for multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease patients.

61 citations

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TL;DR: It is suggested that males have a significantly higher HGS than females, and HGS decreases with increasing age for both dominant and non-dominant hands.

52 citations

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TL;DR: Muscle energy technique was better than stretching technique in improving pain and functional disability in people with mechanical neck pain.

50 citations

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TL;DR: Strategies aimed at enhancing the positive aspects and managing the negative aspects for the clinical educator may be more successful in increasing capacity for student placements.

48 citations

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No. of papers from the Journal in previous years
YearPapers
202314
202217
202114
202014
201915
201816