BACKGROUND Thoracic surgery may cause reduced respiratory function and pulmonary complications, with associated increased risk of mortality. Postoperative physiotherapy aims to reverse atelectasis and secretion retention, and may include incentive spirometry. OBJECTIVES To review the evidence for incentive spirometry, examining the physiological basis, equipment and its use following thoracic...

This study aimed to exhibit the effects of early physiotherapy and discusses post-treatment results on a patient with incontinentia pigmenti (IP) with encephalocele. Physiotherapy evaluations of the child included cognitive, fine and gross motor development assessed with the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development - Third Edition (Bayley-III), disability level with the gross motor funct...

BACKGROUND Rehabilitation, with an emphasis on physiotherapy and exercise, is widely promoted after total knee replacement. However, provision of services varies in content and duration. The aim of this study is to update the review of Minns Lowe and colleagues 2007 using systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of post-discharge physiotherapy exercise in patients with ...

Physiotherapy research activity, and the extent to which our clinical practice appears supported by good science, has grown at a dramatic rate. There are now over 19 000 clinical trials and almost 4000 systematic reviews relating to physiotherapy practice published worldwide (PEDro 2013) and this is likely to continue to expand. The exponential growth that has already occurred would have amazed...

1 Musculoskeletal Division, The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Australia. 2 Centre for Research in Evidence Based Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Queensland, Australia. 3 The Chair of the International Society of Physiotherapy Journal Editors. 4 Editor-In-Chief, International Journal of Physiotherapy and R...

Introduction: In response to long waiting lists and problems with access to primary care physiotherapy, several Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) have developed physiotherapy-led telephone assessment and treatment services. The MRC funded PhysioDirect trial is a randomised trial in four PCTs with a total of 2252 patients comparing this approach with usual physiotherapy care, where patients join a wait...

Introduction The benefit and necessity for prophylactic physiotherapy post operatively remains unclear [1]. Combined with an increased demand on resources, scores to identify patients who would most benefit are being increasingly used. A recent blinded observational evaluation of the SPPOST within our surgical physiotherapy service suggested it to be a potentially useful tool for identifying lo...

(Received on 30.01.2011, accepted on 14.06.2011) *Post-graduate, Department of Physiotherapy,**Associate Professor, Department of Physiotherapy, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore,(A constituent Institute of Manipal University, Karnataka, India., ***Professor, Department of Physiotherapy, ****Professor in Medicine, Director, Kasturba Medical College Clinical Research Centre, Manipal University...

Senthilkumar Thiyagarajan1* and Prabhu C2 1Department of Orthopedics Physical Therapy, the Oxford College of Physiotherapy, Bangalore , India 2Principal, The Oxford College of Physiotherapy, Bangalore, India *Corresponding author: Dr. Senthilkumar Thiyagarajan, Department of Orthopedics physical therapy, The oxford college of Physiotherapy, Bangalore , India, Tel: 1-418-525-4444; E-mail: senphy...

BACKGROUND Lateral epicondylitis of the elbow is a frequent condition with long-lasting symptoms. Corticosteroid injection is increasingly discouraged and there is little knowledge on the combined effect of corticosteroid injection and physiotherapy for acute conditions. We wanted to investigate the efficacy of physiotherapy alone and combined with corticosteroid injection for acute lateral epi...