Friday morning folks! For those of you who are reading this blog via RSS reader – there is a video embedded in this post.
Here is a great video from glumbert.com, titled “Shift Happens” – take a minute to view and think 🙂
Author: Eugene Barsky
Here is a series of streaming video tutorials and illustrations to aid the teaching of physical examination techniques broken out by anatomical area or system from California State University, Dominguez Hill College of Health and Human services >> http://sohstream.csudh.edu/netmedia/content/AVisualGuidetoPhysicalExamination.aspx
You need to click on the body system to see the list of the movies – the resource is fast and the videos are of great quality!
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Thanks to David Rothman for heads up.
Here is a new study from April’s BMC Geriatrics 2007, 7:7
The Dutch authors investigated how many nursing home residents receive PT. In addition, they analysed the factors that contribute to the variation in the provision of PT both between nursing homes and between residents.
The study has a good methodology with randomization implemented: “”A random sample of 600 elderly residents was taken from a random sample of 15 nursing homes. Residents had to be admitted for rehabilitation or for long-term care. Data were collected through interviews with the nursing home physician and the physiotherapist. Multilevel analysis was used to define the variation in the provision of PT and the factors that are associated with the question whether a resident receives PT or not. Furthermore the amount of PT provided was analysed and the factors that are associated with this.”
Authors results: “On average 69% of the residents received PT. The percentage of patients receiving treatment differed significantly across nursing homes, and especially the number of physiotherapists available, explained this difference between nursing homes. Residents admitted to a somatic ward for rehabilitation, and male residents in general, were most likely to receive PT. Residents who were treated by a physiotherapist received on average 55 minutes (sd 41) treatment a week. Residents admitted for rehabilitation received more PT a week, as were residents with a status after a total hip replacement.”
Conclusions: “PT is most likely to be provided to residents on a somatic ward, recently admitted for rehabilitation to a nursing home, which has a relatively large number of physiotherapists. This suggests a potential under-use of PT for long-term residents with cognitive problems. It is recommended that physiotherapists reconsider which residents may benefit from treatment. This may require a shift in the focus of physiotherapists from ‘recovery and discharge’ to ‘quality of life and well-being’.”
Read the whole thing in free full text (open access) on BioMed Central BMC Geriatrics here.
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Life After Death by PowerPoint
This is a pretty interesting and funny video by Don McMillan – an engineer-comedian from US…I had to learn a lot from this one – really 🙂
Have a great weekend!
The General Social Survey (GSS) at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago has run their survey for the most satisfying jobs by asking more than 27,000 people questions about job satisfaction and general happiness.
The 2006 General Social Survey is based on interviews with randomly selected people who collectively represent a cross section of Americans.
Here are the Top 10 most gratifying jobs and the percentage of subjects who said they were very satisfied with the job:
* Clergy—87 percent percent
* Firefighters—80 percent percent
* Physical therapists—78 percent percent
* Authors—74 percent
* Special education teachers—70 percent
* Teachers—69 percent
* Education administrators—68 percent
* Painters and sculptors—67 percent
* Psychologists—67 percent
* Security and financial services salespersons—65 percent
* Operating engineers—64 percent
* Office supervisors—61 percent
Here are the 10 least gratifying jobs, where few participants reported being very satisfied:
* Laborers, except construction—21 percent
* Apparel clothing salespersons—24 percent
* Handpackers and packagers—24 percent
* Food preparers—24 percent
* Roofers—25 percent
* Cashiers—25 percent
* Furniture and home-furnishing salespersons—25 percent
* Bartenders—26 percent
* Freight, stock and material handlers—26 percent
* Waiters and servers—27 percent
Read the whole thing from today’s LiveScience here.
Surprising? Do physios in Canada feel the same? Share your experience in the comments!
Thanks to Tom Allen from CBC for alerting us to this!
P.S. And where are the librarians in all this?!
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Here is the podcast we recorded last week from the last BC RSRnet session for this year. The presenter – Dr. Linda Li from the Rehab School in UBC gave a great overview of knowledge transfer in health sciences.
You can listen to the audio file and view her presentation here – http://hdl.handle.net/2429/108
Alternatively, you can access all UBC Barber Learning Centre podcasts this way:
1. Go to https://dspace.library.ubc.ca
2. Click on “Library” link under “Communities in DSpace”
3. Click on “The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre” link
4. You will see a small search box. Click on “Titles” button to list all files by titles or “Authors” file to list all files by their authors
5. When opening a particular record, just click on the relevant link to listen to an audiocast and view the presentations in PDF format.
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UBC’s partnership with the Physiotherapy Association of BC (PABC) for the Outreach Librarian and Continuing Studies projects has won the Canadian Physiotherapy Association’s Partnership Award – 2007.
Eugene Barsky, the UBC Physio Outreach Librarian (myself 🙂 and Deena Boeck, the Professional Development Education Manager will accept the awards at a CPA luncheon on June 4th, which is being held during the World Confederation of Physical Therapists Congress – 2007 at the Vancouver Convention Centre.
From the award letter: “In working to increase members’ resources in evidence-based practice,
Librarian Eugene Barsky’s efforts are focused on providing research tools and free access to health evidence and quality information.”
CPA’s Partnership Award recognizes an organization (or group) that has significantly contributed to and advanced the image, ideals, and goals of the physiotherapy profession through effective leadership and active partnerships.
Personally, I would like to thank CPA for this prestigious award and hope that we can continue providing those valuable services to PABC folks here in British Columbia 🙂 Much appreciated!!
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Here is a recent article published in PLoS Medicine – an excellent open access medical journal.
Ness AR, Leary SD, Mattocks C, Blair SN, Reilly JJ, et al. (2007) Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Fat Mass in a Large Cohort of Children . PLoS Med 4(3): e97 doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040097
The UK authors carried out a cross sectional analysis on 5,500 12-year-old children enrolled in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Total physical activity and minutes of moderate and vigorous physical activity (MVPA) were measured using the Actigraph accelerometer. Fat mass and obesity (defined as the top decile of fat mass) were measured using the Lunar Prodigy dual x-ray emission absorptiometry scanner. We found strong negative associations between MVPA and fat mass that were unaltered after adjustment for total physical activity. We found a strong negative dose-response association between MVPA and obesity. The odds ratio for obesity in adjusted models between top and the bottom quintiles of minutes of MVPA was 0.03 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.01–0.13, p-value for trend <0.0001) in boys and 0.36 (95% CI 0.17–0.74, p-value for trend = 0.006) in girls.
They concluded: “We demonstrated a strong graded inverse association between physical activity and obesity that was stronger in boys. Our data suggest that higher intensity physical activity may be more important than total activity.”
In a nutshell, the article says that even a little extra exercise lowers kids’ risk of obesity – very interesting!!
Read the free full text here.
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Here is a little article from WDSU Channel about Minneapolis-St. Paul’s hipsters stating that: “Even Hipsters Need To Sweat”
Take a five minutes to browse it through – you might also have some cool patients who need some unique persuasion to work out 🙂
Have a great long weekend!
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Sorry for not posting for a couple of days – that nasty cold kept me down for a while 🙂
Here is an interesting study from US, published recently in Clin Med Res. 2006 Dec;4(4):256-65. The researchers evaluated the short-term effect of a worksite-based walking incentive program to promote physical activity and well-being in employees of a private healthcare clinic.
The conclusions : “Preliminary findings of our study suggest that the goal of worksite programs designed to support employees in their efforts to improve or maintain their level of wellness is potentially achievable. Continuing research is needed to further assess whether persistent health benefits can be induced by worksite wellness programs.”
Interesting study…Read the full text here
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