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Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences
Physical Therapists' Assessment Of Patient Self-Efficacy For Home Exercise Programs, Kelsey J. Picha, Alison Snyder Valier, Nicholas R. Heebner, John P. Abt, Ellen L. Usher, Gilson J. Capilouto, Timothy L. Uhl
Physical Therapists' Assessment Of Patient Self-Efficacy For Home Exercise Programs, Kelsey J. Picha, Alison Snyder Valier, Nicholas R. Heebner, John P. Abt, Ellen L. Usher, Gilson J. Capilouto, Timothy L. Uhl
Athletic Training and Clinical Nutrition Faculty Publications
Background: Patient adherence to home exercise programs (HEPs) is low, and poor patient self-efficacy is a barrier clinicians can influence. However, little evidence suggests that clinicians assess level of patient self-efficacy before prescribing HEPs.
Purpose: To determine the importance of patient self-efficacy to physical therapists (PTs) when addressing patient barriers, determine how PTs assess and use patient self-efficacy for HEPs, and describe the barriers facing PTs when assessing patient self-efficacy for HEPs.
Study Design: Survey.
Methods: Practicing PTs were recruited from the American Physical Therapy Association's Orthopedic Section and emailed the electronic survey.
Results: Email invitations were sent to 17730 …
An International Study Exploring The Experience Of Survivors Of Critical Illness As Volunteers Within Icu Recovery Services, Carly Robinson, Elizabeth Hibbert, Anthony J. Bastin, Joel Meyer, Ashley A. Montgomery-Yates, Tara Quasim, Andrew Slack, Mark E. Mikkelsen, Theodore J. Iwashyna, Kimberly J. Haines, Carla M. Sevin, Joanne Mcpeake, Leanne M. Boehm
An International Study Exploring The Experience Of Survivors Of Critical Illness As Volunteers Within Icu Recovery Services, Carly Robinson, Elizabeth Hibbert, Anthony J. Bastin, Joel Meyer, Ashley A. Montgomery-Yates, Tara Quasim, Andrew Slack, Mark E. Mikkelsen, Theodore J. Iwashyna, Kimberly J. Haines, Carla M. Sevin, Joanne Mcpeake, Leanne M. Boehm
Internal Medicine Faculty Publications
Objectives:
Many clinicians have implemented follow-up and aftercare to support patients following ICU. Some of this care is supported and facilitated by peer volunteers. There is limited contemporary work that has explicitly explored volunteer roles within ICU recovery services or the experience of volunteers undertaking these roles. We sought to explore the experience of survivors of critical illness, as volunteers, involved in ICU recovery services and understand their motivation for undertaking these roles.
Design:
Qualitative exploration using in-depth semistructured interviews. The study design used an inductive content analysis process. We also documented the roles that were adopted by volunteers in …
Neuromuscular Adaptions Following A Daily Strengthening Exercise In Individuals With Rotator Cuff Related Shoulder Pain: A Pilot Case-Control Study, Amee L. Seitz, Lisa A. Podlecki, Emily R. Melton, Timothy L. Uhl
Neuromuscular Adaptions Following A Daily Strengthening Exercise In Individuals With Rotator Cuff Related Shoulder Pain: A Pilot Case-Control Study, Amee L. Seitz, Lisa A. Podlecki, Emily R. Melton, Timothy L. Uhl
Physical Therapy Faculty Publications
Background: The goal of therapeutic exercise is to facilitate a neuromuscular response by increasing or decreasing muscular activity in order to reduce pain and improve function. It is not clear what dosage of exercise will create a neuromuscular response.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the effects following a three-week home program of a daily single exercise, the prone horizontal abduction exercise (PHA), on neuromuscular impairments of motor control as measured by scapular muscle EMG amplitudes, strength, and secondarily outcomes of self-reported pain and function between individuals with and without subacromial pain syndrome.
Study Design: Prospective Case-Control, …
Design And Analysis Of A 3d-Printed, Thermoplastic Elastomer (Tpe) Spring Element For Use In Corrective Hand Orthotics, Kevin Thomas Richardson
Design And Analysis Of A 3d-Printed, Thermoplastic Elastomer (Tpe) Spring Element For Use In Corrective Hand Orthotics, Kevin Thomas Richardson
Theses and Dissertations--Mechanical Engineering
This thesis proposes an algorithm that determine the geometry of 3D-printed, custom-designed spring element bands made of thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) for use in a wearable orthotic device to aid in the physical therapy of a human hand exhibiting spasticity after stroke. Each finger of the hand is modeled as a mechanical system consisting of a triple-rod pendulum with nonlinear stiffness at each joint and forces applied at the attachment point of each flexor muscle. The system is assumed quasi-static, which leads to a torque balance between the flexor tendons in the hand, joint stiffness and the design force applied to …
Assessment Of Accelerometers For Measuring Upper-Extremity Physical Activity, Elizabeth Lawinger, Timothy L. Uhl, Mark Abel, Srinath Kamineni
Assessment Of Accelerometers For Measuring Upper-Extremity Physical Activity, Elizabeth Lawinger, Timothy L. Uhl, Mark Abel, Srinath Kamineni
Physical Therapy Faculty Publications
Objective: The overarching goal of this study was to examine the use of triaxial accelerometers in measuring upper-extremity motions to monitor upper-extremity-exercise compliance. There were multiple questions investigated, but the primary objective was to investigate the correlation between visually observed arm motions and triaxial accelerometer activity counts to establish fundamental activity counts for the upper extremity.
Study Design: Cross-sectional, basic research.
Setting: Clinical laboratory.
Participants: Thirty healthy individuals age 26 ± 6 y, body mass 24 ± 3 kg, and height 1.68 ± 0.09 m volunteered.
Intervention: Participants performed 3 series of tasks: activities of …