Prenatal and postnatal growth and development of the foot and ankle.

abstract：:Tactile hypersensitivity is a common sequela of traumatic hand injury. Vibration is used clinically to reduce this hypersensitivity. The purpose of this study was to determine if vibration has an effect on tactile threshold and if so to determine the duration of that effect. Mean tactile thresholds were determined for...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Hochreiter NW,Jewell MJ,Barber L,Browne P

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Comparative effectiveness research (CER) requires valid outcome measures that discriminate patients by risk factors in similar ways across settings. Standardized functional status (FS) measures in physical therapy are used routinely in multiple countries, creating the potential for CER among countries. OBJE...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Deutscher D,Hart DL,Stratford PW,Dickstein R

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature on autism as a childhood disorder is briefly reviewed, concentrating on diagnosis and methods of treatment. The autistic child is treated as a complex organism with many unknown factors in his development. A dysfunction in sensory integration is thought to interfere with the development of physical, int...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Gerardot JM,Dossett R

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) occurs in more than 50% of people with diabetes and is an important risk factor for skin breakdown, amputation, and reduced physical mobility (ie, walking and stair climbing). Although many beneficial effects of exercise for people with diabetes have been well established, few stud...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Kluding PM,Bareiss SK,Hastings M,Marcus RL,Sinacore DR,Mueller MJ

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to examine the physical impairments and functional limitations of individuals with total knee arthroplasty (TKA), as compared with individuals with no diagnosed knee disease (control subjects). SUBJECTS:Twenty-nine individuals 1 year following TKA (13 women, 16 men)...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Walsh M,Woodhouse LJ,Thomas SG,Finch E

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Back School program consists of exercises and education designed to reduce back pain. Sixty-six percent of the patients had too much back pain to participate. The purpose of this clinical report is to describe how 24-hour burst transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) treatment enabled these patients wit...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Brill MM,Whiffen JR

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Identifying excellence in physical therapist academic environments is complicated by the lack of nationally available benchmarking data. Objective:The objective of this study was to compare a physical therapist academic environment to another health care profession (medicine) academic environment using the ...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Shields RK,Dudley-Javoroski S,Sass KJ,Becker M

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Due to the high incidence of falls in people with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD), the assessment of standing balance is a key component of physical therapist evaluation. This study investigated performance on clinical tests of standing balance in subjects with and without PD. SUBJECTS:The s...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Smithson F,Morris ME,Iansek R

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The purpose of this survey was to examine factors influencing participation in continuing education (CE) and preferences for CE program design. Therapists in the more densely populated region of southern Ontario were compared with those in the more rural northern Ontario region. SUBJECTS AND MET...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Tassone MR,Speechley M

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Traditionally, rehabilitation programs emphasize training balance under single-task conditions to improve balance and reduce risk for falls. The purpose of this case report is to describe 3 balance training approaches in older adults with impaired balance. CASE DESCRIPTIONS:Three patients were r...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Silsupadol P,Siu KC,Shumway-Cook A,Woollacott MH

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children hospitalized during sickle cell anemia crises suffer restricted range of motion secondary to vasoocclusive-induced pain and are almost always nonambulatory. Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, now refers most of these children to the Physical Therapy Department at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, T...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Alcorn R,Bowser B,Henley EJ,Holloway V

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Painful diabetic neuropathy (PDN) is a common complication in patients with diabetes. It is related to ischemic nerve damage and the increase in the levels of proinflammatory mediators, such as tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) and interleukin 1β (IL-1β). Neural mobilization may have the potential to alleviate...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Zhu GC,Tsai KL,Chen YW,Hung CH

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Functional impairment is common in people with chronic liver disease (CLD), and improvement is expected following liver transplantation (LT). The Six-Minute Walk Test (6MWT) is an objective measure of functional performance. OBJECTIVE:The aims of this study were: (1) to evaluate the feasibility of 6MWT perf...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： VanWagner LB,Uttal S,Lapin B,Lee J,Jichlinski A,Subramanian T,Heldman M,Poole B,Bustamante E,Gunasekaran S,Tapia CS,Veerappan A,Wong SY,Levitsky J

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The extent of a patient's impairment can be established by comparing measurements of that patient's performance with normative values obtained from apparently unimpaired individuals. Only a few studies have described normative values for muscle strength measured by hand-held dynamometry. The purp...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Andrews AW,Thomas MW,Bohannon RW

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Confidence in a person's balance has been shown to be an important predictor of social activity among people with lower-limb amputations. The purposes of this study were to describe confidence in balance among people with transtibial or transfemoral lower-limb amputations and to compare people wh...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Miller WC,Speechley M,Deathe AB

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of different orthotic posting methods on controlling abnormal foot pronation during ambulation. SUBJECTS:Twenty-two individuals with forefoot varus deformities of at least 8 degrees (13 women, aged 21-40 years, and 9 men, aged 20-50 years) p...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Johanson MA,Donatelli R,Wooden MJ,Andrew PD,Cummings GS

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Clinicians often are faced with questions about prognosis and outcome of shoulder disorders. The purpose of this study was to identify predictors of both change in disability and level of disability following physical therapy treatment. SUBJECTS:The subjects were consecutive patients (n=361) who...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Kennedy CA,Manno M,Hogg-Johnson S,Haines T,Hurley L,McKenzie D,Beaton DE

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to determine the intrarater and interrater reliability of measurements of three clinical features of coordination based on the performance of the "finger-to-nose" test. SUBJECTS:Thirty-seven persons with traumatic brain injury (26 male, 11 female), aged 17 to 64 yea...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Swaine BR,Sullivan SJ

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute care physical therapists contribute to the complex process of patient discharge planning. As physical therapists are experts at evaluating functional abilities and are able to incorporate various other factors relevant to discharge planning, it was expected that physical therapists' recommendations of ...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Smith BA,Fields CJ,Fernandez N

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rehabilitation robotics is a research area, originating in engineering, that has emerged in the last decade. Its broad aim is to use robot technology to assist people with movement dysfunction. The neurologically impaired population might gain considerably from the provision of robots as "assistants" or "therapy aides...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： van Vliet P,Wing AM

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The purpose of this case report is to describe the use of a cluster of sacroiliac tests in conjunction with an impairment-based model of examination, diagnosis, and management of sacroiliac region pain. CASE DESCRIPTION:The patient was a 74-year-old woman with an 18-month history of low back, le...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Godges JJ,Varnum DR,Sanders KM

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infants aged 2 to 5 months show spontaneous general movements (GMs) of the whole body, which are referred to as fidgety movements (FMs). Although previous studies have shown that evaluation of GMs by the General Movement Assessment (GMA) has predictive value about later neurological impairments, it remains u...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Gima H,Shimatani K,Nakano H,Watanabe H,Taga G

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Physical therapists often must either palpate tendons of the shoulder or, as part of treatment, apply forces to those tendons. Many methods have been suggested for minimizing the amount of soft tissue that overlies these tendons, but no data have been presented to justify the use of any approach....

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Mattingly GE,Mackarey PJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The val(66)met polymorphism in brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) has been associated with poorer outcomes after stroke. The mechanism for this finding remains uncertain but might be related to the reduced motor system activation associated with this polymorphism in healthy people. OBJECTIVE:The curre...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Kim DY,Quinlan EB,Gramer R,Cramer SC

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty 8-year-old children, 25 classified as normal and 25 as learning disabled, participated in a study to determine whether they could be differentiated into their respective groups by using four tasks from the Devereux Test of Extremity Coordination: opposition, foot patting, finger wiggling, and heel-toe walking wi...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Kendrick KA,Hanten WP

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive exercise tests were performed on 12 closed head-injured subjects to determine 1) whether results differ when tests are performed on a treadmill, a bicycle ergometer, or mechanical stairs and 2) whether a 3-month general physical conditioning program results in an improvement in exercise performance. The su...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Hunter M,Tomberlin J,Kirkikis C,Kuna ST

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early physical therapy models hold great promise for delivering high-value care for individuals with musculoskeletal pain. However, existing physical therapist practice and research standards are misaligned with value-based principles, which limits the potential for growth and sustainability of these models. This Pers...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Lentz TA,Goode AP,Thigpen CA,George SZ

更新日期：2020-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:"Handicap situation" is defined in the literature as "a disruption in the accomplishment of a person's life habits (activities of daily living and social roles)." The purpose of this study was to determine the strength of association between various types of locomotion and the accomplishment of l...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Lepage C,Noreau L,Bernard PM

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Therapy-related changes in limb volumes often are estimated using summated segmental volumes based on adjacent circumference measurements. The purposes of this study were: (1) to determine the effect of different segment lengths on calculated volume reductions after complete decongestive therapy ...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Mayrovitz HN,Macdonald J,Davey S,Olson K,Washington E

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:There are some sex differences in the career activities of physical therapists. The purpose of this study was to determine whether these sex differences are reflected in the career expectations of physical therapist students. SUBJECTS:Participants were 919 physical therapist students. METHODS:F...

journal_title：Physical therapy

authors： Johanson MA

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00