Showing papers in "Physiotherapy in 1996"

TL;DR: These brief clinical guidelines and their supporting base of research evidence is intended to assist in the management of acute back pain.

TL;DR: It is indicated that progressive exercise therapy is more effective than ultrasound in treating chronic lateral epicondylitis, reducing pain and improving patients' ability to work.

TL;DR: It is evident that falls are common and the study identified possible means of intervention.

TL;DR: It is concluded that repeated moderate intensity exercise which involves the practice of functional tasks and mobility can produce substantial increases in strength, balance, flexibility and selected tests of functional ability.

TL;DR: The importance of conveying the newly gained physiotherapy knowledge as fast as possible to clinical physiotherapists is emphasised and the difference between constitutive and operational definitions of concepts is explained.

TL;DR: It is argued that the focus group technique, if used judiciously, offers considerable potential in physiotherapy evaluation and research, and examines some of its strengths and weaknesses.

TL;DR: The hydrotherapy regimes produced significantly better short-term improvement in cervical rotation than the exercise only regime, and both in-patient and hydroTherapy patients reported more subjective improvement, however, at six months, there were no differences in outcomes between the three groups.

TL;DR: Occupational and physiotherapy departments in Scotland were surveyed to establish the extent to which outcome measures, and especially standardised measures, were used, and more positive than negative views were expressed.

TL;DR: The backward-chaining method of teaching elderly people how to get up from the floor is much less stressful to older people and to staff than the conventional method.

TL;DR: Key concepts which frame current debates about the health care professional’s role and relationship to consumers of health care, the place of ‘user view’ research and the ‘consumer voice’ in health needs assessment, and the political nature of research on chronic illness and disability are introduced.

TL;DR: Research on aspects of feedback shows that augmented feedback from a person or an object enhances performance and can improve motor learning and a greater use of feedback aids could improve treatment outcomes.

TL;DR: Analysis showed the Scottish amputee population to be predominantly elderly with peripheral vascular disease being the major aetiology and there was evidence to suggest that starting these treatments within ten days of amputation may reduce the time to prosthetic casting.

TL;DR: This paper attempts to determine the efficacy of PFE using myofeedback by reviewing in a meta-analysis several studies that used this treatment method for women with SUI, and finds the following trend can be discerned.