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Injuries Common To Tactical Personnel (A Multidisciplinary Review), Rob Orr, Michael Stierli

Rob Marc Orr

No abstract provided.

The 30-15 Intermittent Fitness Assessment As A Predictor Of Injury Risk In Police Recruits, Rob Orr, Michael Stierli, Ben Hinton, Michael Steele

Rob Marc Orr

Police recruits with lower intermittent metabolic fitness as measured by the 30-15 Intermittent Fitness Test are at a greater risk of sustaining an injury or illness during police recruit training.

The Impact Of Load Carriage On Mobility And Marksmanship Of The Tactical Response Officer, Simon D. Carlton, Rob Orr, Michael Stierli, Patrick D. Carbone

Rob Marc Orr

The loads carried by specialist tactical police officers may decrease their mobility over short distances but improve their marksmanship performance at close range.

Extreme Conditioning Programs And The Tactical Athlete, Rob Orr

Rob Marc Orr

No abstract provided.

Contrais: Conservative Treatment For Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Randomised Controlled Trial, Allan Abbott, Hans Moller, Paul Gerdhem

Allan D. Abbott

Background: Idiopathic scoliosis is a three-dimensional structural deformity of the spine that occurs in children and adolescents. Recent reviews on bracing and exercise treatment have provided some evidence for effect of these interventions. The purpose of this study is to improve the evidence base regarding the effectiveness of conservative treatments for preventing curve progression in idiopathic scoliosis. Methods/design: Patients: Previously untreated girls and boys with idiopathic scoliosis, 9 to 17 years of age with at least one year of remaining growth and a curve Cobb angle of 25–40 degrees will be included. A total of 135 participants will be randomly …

Endurance And Fatigue Characteristics Of The Neck Muscles In Patients With Cervical Radiculopathy, Marie Halvorsen, Allan Abbott, Anneli Peolsson, Asa Dedering

Allan D. Abbott

Purpose: The aim of the study was to compare myoelectric manifestation in neck muscle endurance and fatigue characteristics during sub-maximal isometric endurance test in patients with cervical radiculopathy and asymptomatic subjects. An additional aim was to explore associations between primary neck muscle endurance, myoelectric fatigability, and self-rated levels of fatigue, pain and subjective health measurements in patients with cervical radiculopathy.

Methods: Muscle fatigue in the ventral and dorsal neck muscles was assessed in patients with cervical radiculopathy and in an asymptomatic group during an isometric neck muscle endurance test in prone and supine. 46 patients and 34 asymptomatic subjects participated. …

Grip Strength Is Associated With Marksmanship And Defensive Tactics, But Not Injuries, In Police Recruits, Rob Orr, M. Stierli, B. Hinton, Michael Steele

Rob Marc Orr

No abstract provided.

Grip Strength Is Associated With Marksmanship And Defensive Tactics, But Not Injuries, In Police Recruits, Mike Steele

Mike Steele

No abstract provided.

Vestibular Influence On Cranio-Cervical Pain: A Case Report, Frank Gargano, Wayne Hing, Caroline Cross

Wayne Hing

This case report describes a 39 year old woman with a 10 month history of right-sided temporal headaches. In addition, she experienced a ‘wobble’ feeling when rolling toward her right side and reported suboccipital pain, tinnitus and a mild visual disturbance. Objective assessment revealed she had a positional upbeat clockwise torsional nystagmus, that is, a positive Dix-Hallpike test for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. Furthermore, manual assessment revealed right upper cervical joint dysfunction. She was treated with a four stage canalith repositioning manoeuvre for the vestibular system which abolished her ‘wobble’ symptom. Subsequently, manual therapy techniques were applied to the cervical …

Clinical Predictors Of A Positive Response To Guided Diagnostic Block Into The Subacromial Bursa, Angela Cadogan, Mark Laslett, Wayne Hing, Peter Mcnair, Stephen Taylor

Wayne Hing

Objective: To compare the accuracy of combinations of clinical examination findings for predicting a positive response to injection of local anaesthetic into the subacromial bursa.

Design: Prospective, cohort, diagnostic validity design. Subjects: Consecutive patients with shoulder pain recruited from primary care physiotherapy and general medical practices.

Methods: All subjects underwent a standardised clinical examination (index test) followed by a diagnostic injection of xylocaineTM into the subacromial bursa (reference standard test) performed under ultrasound guidance. Clinical examination variables associated with a positive anaesthetic response (≥ 80% post-injection reduction in pain intensity) were identified (p

Results: Of the 196 subjects who received …

Shoulder Pain In Primary Care: Diagnostic Accuracy Of Clinical Examination Tests For Non-Traumatic Acromioclavicular Joint Pain, Angela Cadogan, Peter Mcnair, Mark Laslett, Wayne Hing

Wayne Hing

Background: Despite numerous methodological flaws in previous study designs and the lack of validation in primary care populations, clinical tests for identifying acromioclavicular joint (ACJ) pain are widely utilised without concern for such issues. The aim of this study was to estimate the diagnostic accuracy of traditional ACJ tests and to compare their accuracy with other clinical examination features for identifying a predominant ACJ pain source in a primary care cohort. Methods: Consecutive patients with shoulder pain were recruited prospectively from primary health care clinics. Following a standardised clinical examination and diagnostic injection into the subacromial bursa, all participants received …

Comparison Of A Novel Direct Measure Of Rapid Pain Intensity Change To Traditional Serial 100 Mm Vas Measurement Of Pain Intensity, Mark Laslett, Peter Mcnair, Angela Cadogan, Wayne Hing

Wayne Hing

Objectives: Key diagnostic decisions often turn on measurement of change in pain intensity after diagnostic anesthetic blocks. This study aimed to introduce a new direct measure pain intensity change and compare it with percent change as calculated from the traditional preprocedure and postprocedure pain visual analog scales. Methods: Shoulder pain patients enrolled in a diagnostic accuracy study comparing clinical variables with image-guided local anesthetic injections were assessed with both the traditional preprocedure and postprocedure visual analog scales and the new direct method. Percent change in pain intensity was calculated with both instruments and were compared using statistical methods. The percentage …

A Phenomenology Of Fall Prevention: Lived-Identity And Careful Practice In Community Outreach Care, James A. Shaw

James B Shaw

The increasing number of injurious falls amongst older people living in the community is continuously portrayed as a major public health problem facing the Canadian health care system. As additional resources are allocated for community-based fall prevention programs, health service providers are increasingly expected to understand and enact fall prevention in effective and meaningful ways. The aim of this two-phase interpretive phenomenological study was to enhance understandings of the taken-for-granted meanings that characterize everyday practices of community-based fall prevention in order to foster more sensitive, tactful, and meaningful approaches to fall prevention with older people. In the first phase of …

Movement Orientated Training For The Kinetic And Cyber Warrior, Rob Orr

Rob Marc Orr

No abstract provided.

Occupational Load Carriage: Formal And Informal Conditioning, Rob Orr

Rob Marc Orr

No abstract provided.

Soldier Self-Reported Reductions In Task Performance Associated With Operational Load Carriage, Rob Orr, Rodney Pope, Venerina Johnston, Julia Coyle

Rodney P Pope

Australian Army soldiers are required to carry heavy loads of around 48kg while deployed on military operations. Research has associated decrements in soldiers’ ability to perform key tasks with carriage of these loads. To determine whether soldiers are aware of the negative impact of load carriage on their performance of operational tasks, soldier responses relating to perceptions of load carriage impacts on performance of five key tasks while on operations were collected. Data, captured via an online survey tool, were analysed to determine relationships between soldier perceptions and loads carried. In addition, responses were drawn from a 5-point Likert Scale …