Category: Research

This is a very recent article published in the venerable BMJ – 2007 Sep 20. The authors wanted to evaluate the effectiveness of physiotherapy exercise after elective primary total knee arthroplasty in patients with osteoarthritis.

This is a high quality study – systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

The UK-based authors concluded that: “Interventions including physiotherapy functional exercises after discharge result in short term benefit after elective primary total knee arthroplasty. Effect sizes are small to moderate, with no long term benefit.”

Please read the free full text on the BMJ site here.

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The new issues of Physical Therapy (2007 Sep 4) and Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy (2007 Aug;37(8))

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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In July 1, 2007 issue of American Family Physician, there was a short “Cochrane brief” piece on – “Exercise for Older Patients Who Are Acutely Hospitalized”

Cochrane Briefs from the American Family Physician are excellent, short, clinically-oriented articles that discuss a recent Cochrane review about a specific topic.

This one is not an exception. Please read the whole thing in full text here (scroll down to the second Cochrane article).

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The new issues of Physiotherapy – 2007 Sep; 93 (3) and Physiotherapy Canada – 2007 Summer; 59 (3) are online in CINAHL database now.

Reminder: PABC members can now access the full text of both journals using our online electronic library accessible via PABC members only site.

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 journals 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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The latest issue of the Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy is available online at: http://jmmtonline.com/current/.

From the editors email to this blog:

In addition to subscriber-only material –which for this issue includes a paper by Cleland et al on the relevance of audible cavitation when providing thoracic manipulation to patients with mechanical neck pain, a paper by Fleming et al on prognostic variables for patients with cervicogenic headache, and a paper by Pettman on the history of manipulative therapy—we have as always also made relevant material available online for non-subscribers.

The open-access material for this issue includes the abstracts of all presentations for the upcoming AAOMPT conference in St. Louis, MO (http://jmmtonline.com/documents/v15n3/AAOMPTV15N3.pdf ); a paper by Graziano et al illustrating and discussing clinical reasoning with regard to cervical artery compromise (http://jmmtonline.com/documents/v15n3/GrazianoV15N3E.pdf); some very interesting letters to the editor on the topics of chiropractic challenges to the PT scope of practice and classification and management of low back pain (http://jmmtonline.com/documents/v15n3/LetterstotheEditorV15N3E.pdf); and an announcement of awards bestowed on two most deserving PT colleagues, Brian Mulligan and Robin McKenzie (http://jmmtonline.com/documents/v15n3/WCPTAwardsV15N3E.pdf).

We invite you all to visit, read, and perhaps contribute by way of a submitted paper or letter to the editor.

Enjoy 😉

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The last issue – 2007;53(3) – of the Australian Journal of Physiotherapy is online in PubMed now.

View the table of contents via our – “Top Physiotherapy Journals – Current Tables of Contents” category on the right hand side or click below:

– Australian Journal of Physiotherapy

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Here is a very recent article from the BMC Health Services Research 2007, 7:103

The purpose of this study was to: “determine the extent to which personal characteristics and the characteristics of the social system in the workplace influence the propensity of physical therapists to adopt EBP.”

Some of the results:

There was a moderate association between desire for learning, highest degree held, practicality and nonconformity, and the propensity to adopt EBP. A negative correlation was found between age, years licensed and percentage of time in direct patient care. The findings demonstrated that the best three variables for predicting the propensity to adopt EBP in physical therapy were: desire for learning, highest degree held, and practicality.

The authors concluded that:

The study confirms there is no single factor to facilitate research evidence into day-to-day practice. Multiple practice change strategies will be needed to facilitate change in practice.

You can read this article in full text (free open access) on the BioMed Central site here.

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Here is an excellent review article about fibromyalgia published in July 15, 2007 issue of American Family Physician. It provides a great overview of this condition that is frequently treated by physiotherapists.

The article says that: “Although there are no guidelines for treatment, there is evidence that a multidimensional approach with patient education, cognitive behavior therapy, exercise, physical therapy, and pharmacologic therapy can be effective.”

Read the article in full text here .

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