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Research in the area of arthritis reported from E. Swardh and colleagues.(Report)
"Individuals with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) often have to make changes in exercise behavior in order to gain and sustain health benefits. The purpose of this study was to explore and describe ways of understanding exercise maintenance among individuals with RA who had already started to exercise," scientists in Huddinge, Sweden report (see also Arthritis).
"Fourteen women and 4 men with RA of at least 2 years' duration, selected from 4 hospitals or primary health care physical therapy clinics, participated. They had exercised regularly at least twice weekly during the previous 2 months with various levels of support from a physical therapist, and they had attempted to exercise without support outside of the health care environment during the previous year. A phenomenographic approach was used to analyze semistructured interviews. A pattern of categories of descriptions was constructed based on the participants' conceptions and ways of understanding the phenomenon of exercise maintenance. Five categories were identified: ''external control,'' ''sticks and carrots,'' ''a joint venture,'' ''the easy way,'' and ''on one's own terms.'' The categories became clear by elucidating 2 aspects related to exercise maintenance: (1) the way the participants talked about and experienced the type of support ...
- Physical therapy diagnosis and the relationship between impairments and...
- Magazine article from: Physical Therapy Guccione, Andrew A. Jette, Alan M. July 1, 1991 700+ words
...activity pertinent to physical therapy.? Do we have to invent...order to have a system of physical therapy diagnosis? These questions...development of the concept in physical therapy, and each question has...
- Physical Therapy for a Patient in Acute Respiratory Failure.
- Magazine article from: Physical Therapy Wong, Wai Pong July 1, 2000 700+ words
...contributions of 24-hour access to physical therapy by patients who have acute respiratory failure. Physical therapy may be indicated for patients in...injury and smoke inhalation.[1] Physical therapy interventions include postural...
- Physical therapy treatment choices for musculoskeletal impairments.
- Magazine article from: Physical Therapy Jette, Alan M. Delitto, Anthony February 1, 1997 700+ words
[Jette AM, Delitto A. Physical therapy treatment choices for musculoskeletal...visits for back symptoms.[1] Physical therapy is frequently part of the conservative...surveyed nationally identified physical therapy as a preferred management strategy...
- Chest physical therapy for patients in the intensive care unit.(Cardiopulmonary...
- Magazine article from: Physical Therapy Ciesla, Nancy June 1, 1996 700+ words
...hygiene, Cardiopulmonary, Chest physical therapy, Cough, Intensive care units, Postural...article is to review the role of chest physical therapy in the intensive care unit (ICU...pressures are routinely monitored. Chest physical therapy is often necessary due to retained...
- Physical therapy.(Sports Medicine Advisor 2005)
- Clinical Reference Systems Clapis, Phyllis January 1, 2006 700+ words
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- Dynamic Physical Therapy & Aquatic Rehabilitation Centers Merges with Progress...
- Press release article from: Business Wire November 27, 2007 700+ words
...PENNSYLVANIA & DELAWARE -- Dynamic Physical Therapy & Aquatic Rehabilitation Centers...announced it has merged with Progress Physical Therapy, a private practice provider of outpatient physical therapy in northeast Philadelphia, Montgomery...
- Modeling physical therapy clinical research centers.
- Magazine article from: Physical Therapy Soderberg, Gary L. Walter, Jane M. October 1, 1991 700+ words
Until recently, no physical therapy clinical research center (PTCRC...spite of the fact that the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Plan to Foster Clinical Research in Physical Therapy, which was adopted in 1978, [1...
- American Physical Therapy Association Says Consumer Reports Article Does More...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 12, 2000 700+ words
...consumer information about the benefits of physical therapy treatment, says the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). CONSUMER REPORTS...the survey have little knowledge of physical therapy," said APTA President Jan K. Richardson...
Source: HighBeam Research, Research in the area of arthritis reported from E. Swardh and...