Category: Research

The latest issue of Physiotherapy is online now via the CINAHL database. As usual, you can view the latest table of contents of this (and other physio journals) by clicking the “Top Physiotherapy Journals – Current Tables of Contents” link on the right side of the page, browse the journal names and click on the one you need.

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Here is an interesting study from the recent Journal of Athletic Training 2007 Oct-Dec;42(4):530-5 – “Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound and pulsed electromagnetic field in the treatment of tibial fractures: a systematic review”.

This systematic review aimed to: “compare the effects of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) or pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMF) on fracture healing through a systematic review of original, English-language clinical research reports.”

Personally, I don’t like that fact that they didn’t do their searches on CINAHL – the second most important physiotherapy database that indexes many unique journals of the field – like Physiotherapy or Physiotherapy Canada. They also didn’t search EMBASE, which in essence, makes their systematic review not as systematic as they hoped!! It is not enough to search MEDLINE to do a systematic review, folks!

Anyway, their conclusions were: “The studies we included in our review were of generally high methodologic quality. The evidence suggests that LIPUS may speed healing of acute tibial fractures. Comparison studies of these modalities are needed to guide treatment of fractures sustained by athletic individuals.”

Take a look on the full text here.

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The latest issue of the Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy is available online on their website now. What I like about this journal is that it provides part of its content using the open access approach – free of charge to any therapists that care to type the journal URL into their browsers.

Says Peter Huijbregts – the editor-in-chief of this journal:

The open-access material for this issue includes a case report by Borgerding et al describing the us of the patellar-pubic percussion test (http://jmmtonline.com/documents/v15n4/BorgerdingV15N4E.pdf) and a research paper by Tucker et al on the reliability and measurement error of a modified slump test (http://jmmtonline.com/documents/v15n4/TuckerV15N4E.pdf). Other free online content accessible at http://jmmtonline.com/current/ includes the editorial, book and multimedia reviews, a thesis review, and letters to the editor.

Take a look yourself

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The latest issue of Pediatric Physical Therapy 2007 Winter;19(4) is online in PubMed now. As usual, you can view the latest table of contents of this (and other physio journals) by clicking the “Top Physiotherapy Journals – Current Tables of Contents” link on the right side of the page, browse the journal names and click on the one you need.

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The latest issue of the Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy is in PubMed now – 2007 Oct;37(10)

As usual, you can view the latest table of contents of this (and other physio journals) by clicking the “Top Physiotherapy Journals – Current Tables of Contents” link on the right side of the page, browse the journal names and click on the one you need.

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I am back from offering some workshops in The Kootenays in British Columbia Interior. I have been to Trail, Nelson, and Cranbrook.

Fantastic views, great people, lovely weather 😉 Many thanks to Brian Riemer, Kirby Epp, Denise Uhrynuk, and Shawndelle Hanna for organizing the venues, host us and drive us around – it was really appreciated!!

Now, back to our literature, the new issues of Physical Therapy (2007 Oct 16) and Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy (2007 Sep;37(9)) are online in PubMed.

As usual, to view the table of contents of both journals, click on the “Top Physiotherapy Journals – Current Tables of Contents” link on the right hand side of this blog, scroll down to the appropriate journal’s title and click on it – a new window with the most recent table of contents will open up with your results.

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Here is a new research paper – September 2007 from Eura Medicophys, titled – “Ergonomic and physiotherapeutic interventions for treating work-related complaints of the arm, neck or shoulder in adults. A Cochrane systematic review.”

This review examines : “whether conservative interventions have a significant impact on outcomes for work-related complaints of the arm, neck or shoulder in adults.”

The authors concluded that:

There is limited evidence for the effectiveness of keyboards with an alternative force-displacement of the keys or an alternative geometry, and limited evidence for the effectiveness of exercises compared to massage, breaks during computer work compared to no breaks; massage as an add-on treatment to manual therapy, and manual therapy as an add-on treatment to exercises.

Read the full text of this review here.

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