Outcomes following reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (RTSA) are influenced by surgical indications, surgical technique, implant design, and patient variables. The role of self-directed postoperative...
One hundred patients were prospectively randomized into 2 groups: F-PT and home-based physical therapy (H-PT). Patient demographic variables, range of motion (ROM) and strength measurements, and outco...
Seventy patients were included for analysis, with 37 in the H-PT group and 33 in the F-PT group. Thirty patients in both groups had a minimum of 6 months' follow-up. The average length of follow-up wa...
Formal physical therapy and home-based physical therapy programs after RTSA result in similar improvements in ROM, strength, and PRO scores....
To analyze needs and requirements of Pediatric Physical Therapists (PPTs), parents, children and adolescents with and without developmental disabilities in the future use of an activity monitor protot...
Qualitative exploratory study with a thematic analysis approach, based on Braun and Clarke's six steps. Codes derived from the analysis and central themes were collated, based on Fleuren et al.'s grou...
We interviewed 25 PPTs, 12 parents, and 12 children and adolescents. Within four groupings of determinants, we found nine themes: 1) development of information materials; 2) application: output visual...
End-users have similar basic needs, with individual fine-tuning to be addressed during further development of the AM-p. A child-friendly design, information material, and an easy-to-use application to...
The aim of this study was to analyze the spatial distribution of outpatient physical therapy rehabilitation services and associate it with the geographic location of users' households....
The public physical therapy rehabilitation services and addresses of users' households in Campo Grande (MS) were georeferenced in 2017-2019....
Five physical therapy clinics were identified to supply the demand of 31,774 scheduled users. Most services are in the most central regions of the city, while most users reside in peripheral areas....
An assistance gap in Physical therapy care was identified, with a restricted supply of services to meet demands and a geographic barrier, since the services are far from the users' households. Physica...
This report introduces a young adult who has been in bed for more than ten years with end-stage hemophilic arthropathy. He didn't have access to factor VIII (FVIII) in the early stage of hemophilia du...
This review aims to summarize recent studies regarding the specific modalities of physical therapy as a form of treatment for patients with facial paralysis, analyze the different components of physic...
Selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) is a surgical procedure that permanently alters lower extremity spasticity, common in children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP). Intensive postoperative physical thera...
This retrospective, observational study included 60 children with spastic CP following SDR. A subset (n = 12 ambulatory children) was included to describe the dose of postoperative PT. Information gat...
Black or African American children (P = 0.002), children living in large central metro areas (P = 0.033), and children with public insurance (P ≤ 0.001) were significantly less likely to receive SDR. ...
SDR is not equally accessed by patient populations, and postoperative PT frequency is below current recommendations throughout the rehabilitation process. Future studies need to investigate why these ...
This special communication identifies evidence-based recommendations and offers action items to facilitate the uptake of new knowledge from the National Study of Excellence in Pediatric Physical Thera...
The NSE-Peds identified a conceptual framework consisting of 4 key dimensions and associated elements that dynamically interact to prepare future physical therapists to meet the needs of society. The ...
Using the KTA framework, implementation of the recommendations at the level of the individual, program, and organization should enhance pediatric physical therapy education and ultimately physical the...
Assess the effectiveness of physical therapy, including supervised physical exercise for body mass index (BMI) restoration; improving muscle strength and the psychological, behavioural, cognitive symp...
A Systematic Review (SR) was conducted in the following scientific databases: Medline, PubMed, PEDro, PsychInfo, Cochrane Library plus, Nursing and Allied Health database, Scopus and Web of Science da...
496 records were screened, and after eligibility assessment, 6 studies from 8 articles were finally analysed. The studies, involving 176 AN patient (85.02% of patients), reported improvements in muscl...
In two of the RCTs included in this SR, strength training and high intensity resistance improved the muscle strength of patients with AN. In addition, in two RCTs, improvements were observed in patien...
Healthcare is experiencing a transformative phase, with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Physical therapists (PTs) stand on the brink of a paradigm shift in education, practice,...
To describe the incidence of complications associated with cervical spine surgery and post-operative physical therapy (PT), and to identify if the timing of initiation of post-operative PT impacts the...
MOrtho PearlDiver database was queried using billing codes to identify patients who had undergone Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (ACDF), Posterior Cervical Fusion (PCF), or Cervical Foraminot...
Following matching, 3,609 patients who underwent cervical spine surgery at one or more levels and had post-operative PT (ACDF:1784, PCF:1593, and cervical foraminotomy:232). The most frequent complica...
The most common post-operative complications included new onset cervicalgia, revision and wound infection. Complications rates were not impacted by the timing of initiation of PT whether at 2, 8, or 1...
