Physiotherapy is an important part of the management of people with blood cancer. Blood cancer is associated with significant physical and psychological burden. The goals of physiotherapy include facilitating the individual to prepare physically for medical treatment, maintain health during treatment, recover after treatment, and maximise health and wellbeing in ...
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Objective: To evaluate the cost-effectiveness balance of implementing an intensive program of chest physiotherapy in pulmonary lobectomy. Methods: Design: cross-sectional study with historical controls. Cases are 119 patients operated on during a 15-month period of time, after implementation of an intensive chest-physiotherapy program. Controls are 520 patients operated on by the ...
Leer Más »Pelvic floor rehabilitation in the treatment of women with dyspareunia: a randomized controlled clinical trial
Introduction and hypothesis Dyspareunia, the symptom of painful sexual intercourse, is a common sexual dysfunction in reproductive-aged women. Because of its multifactorial etiology, a multidisciplinary approach may be required to treat it. Musculoskeletal factors play an important role; thus, rehabilitating the pelvic floor and modifying the tone of the pelvic ...
Leer Más »The Bobath Concept (NDT) as rehabilitation in stroke patients: A systematic review
J Family Med Prim Care. 2021 Nov; 10(11): 3983–3990. A Pathak, V Gyanpuri, P Dev, N Dhiman Background and Objectives: The Bobath approach, also known as neurodevelopmental treatment (NDT), is a widely used concept in the rehabilitation of stroke patients with hemiparesis in many countries. This technique is being used since ...
Leer Más »Chronic pain management in medical education: a disastrous omission
1. Background Treating pain has been a part of medicine for over 5000 years, yet the management of chronic pain is a relatively new endeavor. Health care for chronic pain patients in the United States is expensive and often ineffective. In 2008, a three-part series in Pain Physician elucidated the crisis in chronic ...
Leer Más »Physiotherapy management of Achilles tendinopathy
This review focuses on two distinct but related conditions: midportion Achilles tendinopathy and insertional Achilles tendinopathy. They are characterised by localised pain and impaired locomotor function, including walking, running and jumping. The information mainly pertains to midportion tendinopathy, which dominates the literature, but evidence about insertional Achilles tendinopathy is highlighted. Although ...
Leer Más »Immediate effects of active exercise with compression therapy on lower-limb lymphedema
Purpose Active exercise with compression therapy (AECT) is a standard treatment for gynecological cancer-related lowerlimb lymphedema (LLL) in clinical situations. However, there is insufficient evidence regarding the immediate effects of the use of AECT on LLL. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the immediate effects of AECT on LLL. Methods Participants in ...
Leer Más »Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System: Identifying barriers, facilitators, and strategies for implementation in research, education, and clinical care
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, octuber 25, 2022 Jarrad H. Van Stan. Jain Holmes, Lauren Wengerd et al Objective To explore rehabilitation professionals’ experiences and perspectives of barriers and facilitators to implementing the RTSS in research, education, and clinical care. Design A cross-sectional survey with free text and binary ...
Leer Más »Effectiveness of Telerehabilitation in Physical Therapy: A Rapid Overview
Physical Therapy, Volume 101, Issue 6, June 2021, pzab053 Pamela Seron, MSc, María-Jose Oliveros, MSc, Ruvistay Gutierrez-Arias, MSc, Rocío Fuentes-Aspe et al Objective: The purpose of this article was to summarize the available evidence from systematic reviews on telerehabilitation in physical therapy. Methods: We searched Medline/PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library databases. In addition, the records ...
Leer Más »Exercise interventions and patient beliefs for people with hip, knee or hip and knee osteoarthritis: a mixed methods review
Abstract Background: Chronic peripheral joint pain due to osteoarthritis (OA) is extremely prevalent and a major cause of physical dysfunction and psychosocial distress. Exercise is recommended to reduce joint pain and improve physical function, but the effect of exercise on psychosocial function (health beliefs, depression, anxiety and quality of life) in ...
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