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Adventures with physiotherapy in Iraqi Kurdistan

Adventures with physiotherapy in Iraqi Kurdistan

February 22, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

by Clare Farrance After graduating from Nottingham University in 1999, I started off my professional career in Scarborough General Hospital where I had a great time and got all basic, foundational skills we need in physiotherapy. But I quickly realized I wasn’t quite cut out for the regular working life in England. I went ahead and got some training in cross cultural work and primary healthcare to give me a broader foundation. Through all this I had some amazing opportunities and ended up teaching basic physiotherapy principles to doctors working in government hospitals and clinics in the north... [Read the full story]

Clinical

Online Clinical Guidelines

November 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

eGuidelines, is an online edition of Guidelines, the three-times yearly handbook summarising clinical guidelines for primary and shared care. The aim is to provide those involved in developing and implementing practice or locality guidelines with a valuable reference source in a convenient, easy-to-use format so you may find these eGuidelines of help when drawing up your local guidelines, recommendations and policies.  Guidelines in Practice and Guidelines are highlighted as useful reading in the National Prescribing Centre (NPC) document Improving Quality in Primary Care. The handbook has been... [Read the full story]

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An interview with Martin Hey, Chair of the Physiotherapy pain Association in the UK.

February 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

Martin qualified from Nottingham School of Physiotherapy (remember those ?), he initially worked in rotational posts in Swansea before moving to Leeds to specialize in musculoskeletal problems. He moved to what became the Mid-Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust in 1996 and have been involved in pain management in some shape or form since 1997. In 2002 he was appointed to a full time Clinical Specialist post in Pain Management.  Last January he took the role of Interim Clinical Lead and was given a three year appointment as Clinical Manager of Pain Services following trust reconfiguration in October... [Read the full story]

Reviews

Mechanisms and Management of Pain for the Physical Therapist

December 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

Mechanisms and Management of Pain for the Physical Therapist Ed Kathleen A. Sluka, PT, PhD, IASP Press, Seattle, 2009, ISBN 978-0-931092-77-0, Soft cover, 394 pages, US$90.00. Foreword by Rebecca L. Craik PT, PhD, FAPTA, Editor-in-Chief of Physical Therapy Kathleen Sluka has contributed much to the profession of Physical Therapy in the United States and to the better understanding of pain mechanisms and management through clinical practice, academic teaching, research, extensive contributions to and reviews of medical literature and significant participation in the work of the IASP, The American... [Read the full story]

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Myofascial Examination Leads to Diagnosis and Successful Treatment of Migraine Headache.

The objective of this report is to evaluate the likelihood of reproducing a migraine patient’s typical head pain with pressure on muscles and ligaments [the myofascial examination] and to evaluate the success of a home program of physical therapist supervised stretching of involved muscles along their lengths...

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Effects of Short-term Treatment with Kinesiotaping for Plantar Fasciitis.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the therapeutic effects of kinesiotaping on plantar fasciitis. A total of 52 patients with plantar fasciitis were randomly and equally divided into two groups. The patients in the control group received only a traditional physical therapy program daily, including ultrasound...

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The Effects of Local Steroid Injection on Pain, Disability, and Hand Functions in Patients with Lateral Epicondylitis

The objective of this study was to evaluate the pain intensity, disability, and hand functions in patients with chronic lateral epicondylitis and to determine the short- and long-term effects of steroid injection on pain, disability, and impaired hand function. Patients with chronic unilateral lateral epicondylitis...

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