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PHYSIOTHERAPY MANAGEMENT IN COMMON TENDON INJURIES: REVIEW OF REVIEWS
No full textBackground: Numerous systematic reviews have been published on tendinopathies that deals with specific therapies on a specific location. Clinical therapists find it difficult to synthesize these results into their practice as evidence is conflicting between the sites of tendinopathy. The objective of this systematic review is to see the effectiveness of physiotherapy interventions (both active- exercise and passive- physical agents) in the management of tendinopathies.
Methods: Articles were selected from Web of Science (WoS) by entering keywords in mid-December 2017. Articles published in the English language, between 2000 and 2017 were selected. The author selected 14 reviews from 31 possible reviews for this article and all, but one was indexed in PubMed too. Seven, 1, 3 and 3 were the number of articles that were carried treatment, physiotherapy, exercise and physical agents in their titles. Shoulder, hip or knee, ankle locations were dealt in 6, 4 and four articles respectively.
Results: Current evidence-based literature shows that exercise especially eccentric one is the definite physiotherapy treatment option for treating lower limb and some upper limb tendinopathies. However, reviews show that other forms of exercises particularly stabilization as a promising option in upper limb conditions. Physical agents (Ultra Sound [US], Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation [TENS] are showing conflicting results hence not recommended at this point. The LASER can be used in Shoulder tendinopathies.
Conclusion: The traditional concept of eccentric training in tendinopathies is challenged by recent reviews which show stabilization and other types of exercises also improving pain and function in tendinopathies. Well-designed large RCT trials are required to see the effectiveness of physical agents, different types of exercise training on tendinopathies
Qualitative methodological randomized control trials: A need for evidence-based learning and practice in physiotherapy
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Cross-Cultural Validation of Urdu Version KOOS in Indian Population with Primary Knee Osteoarthritis
Get PDFPurpose. The primary aim of this study was to translate a self-reported questionnaire (KOOS) from English to Urdu and then to see its internal consistency, agreement, test-retest reliability, and validity among primary OA knee patients. Methodology. First, KOOS questionnaire was translated from English language to Urdu through standardized cross-cultural protocol. This translated version of KOOS was administered to 111 radiographically diagnosed primary OA knee patients at two times with 48-hour interval in-between. Cronbach’s alpha, floor and ceiling effect, intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), absolute agreement %, and Spearman correlation were used to fulfill our objectives. Results. Average time to administer this questionnaire was 20 minutes. There was good internal consistency with Cronbach’s alpha ranging from 0.7246 to 0.9139. The absolute agreement of each item between two tests ranged from 81.08% to 98.20%. Test-retest reliability was excellent (“r” ranged from 0.9673 to 0.9782). There was no ceiling effect; however less than 4% floor effect was seen in two subscales. There was significant difference that existed between different X-ray grades in all subscales meaning good content validity for disease prognosis. Conclusion. The present results show that KOOS Urdu version is a reliable and valid measure for primary OA knee patients.</jats:p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Test–retest reliability and correlates of 6-minute walk test in patients with primary osteoarthritis of knees
No full textAppropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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