BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Verticalization was reported to improve the level of arousal and awareness in patients with severe acquired brain injury (ABI) and to be safe in ICU. We evaluated the effectiveness of a very early stepping verticalization protocol on their functional and neurological outcome. METHODS Consecutive patients with Vegetative State or Minimally Conscious State were enrolled...

objectives: to investigate the clinical efficacy of physiotherapy with and without superficial dry needling on patients with knee pain; patellofemoral pain syndrome. methods: a randomized clinical trial conducted in 2015, tehran, iran. of patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome, thirty-four subjects were randomly divided into two groups (17 in each group). group a was subjected to physiother...

OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to explore the relationships between illness perceptions, emotional representations, treatment beliefs and reported adherence in adolescents with cystic fibrosis (CF). METHODS Thirty-eight adolescents completed questionnaires assessing their perceptions of CF, beliefs about prescribed treatments and reported adherence to chest physiotherapy, enzyme suppleme...

BACKGROUND Physiotherapy with exercises is generally recommended in the treatment of patients with subacromial impingement syndrome (SIS). OBJECTIVE We aimed to investigate the use of physiotherapy in patients with SIS in Danish hospital settings as part of initial non-surgical treatment and after SIS-related surgery and to evaluate to which extent sex, socio-demographic and clinical factors ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the physiotherapeutic benefits of bilateral symmetric training (BST) for stroke survivors affected by hemiparesis. Design/methodology/approach – Other studies have investigated symmetric physiotherapy. A key difficulty in previous work is in maintaining mirror-imaged trajectories between the affected and less-affected limbs. This obstacle was o...

Dear Editor, The profession of physiotherapy gained recognition during the time of World War I,1 with services being rendered in acute-care as well as community settings. It can thus be inferred that physiotherapy services in and for the community could have begun as early as 1914. Since then, there has been ample research globally (developed world more than the developing) on this specializati...

1Visiting Professor, Department of Physiotherapy, north Polytechnic institute of Health, ceSPU-gandra (Portugal). 2PhD student at the research centre in Physical activity, Health and leisure, Faculty of Sport, University of Porto (Portugal); Visiting Professor, Department of Physiotherapy, north Polytechnic institute of Health, ceSPU-gandra (Portugal). 3associate Professor, Department of Physio...

[Purpose] To investigate physicians' attitudes, opinions and experiences towards physiotherapy services as well as to identify the potential factors that may affect the extent of utilization of physiotherapy services (based on physicians' beliefs) in Saudi Arabia (SA). [Subjects and Methods] A cross-sectional study was conducted. [Results] A total of 108 respondents met the inclusion criteria. ...

OBJECTIVE Whilst prognostic factors for recovery from whiplash associated disorders have been documented, factors related to high physiotherapy use are not well recognized. This study profiles predictors for high use of physiotherapy services from a large dataset from an Australian state insurer for motor vehicle accidents. METHOD A dataset of Motor Accident Commission claims in South Austral...