Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Journal

 Professionals’ attitudes determine their knowledge and behavior towards teaching and learning in education. Physiotherapists (PTs) are an essential part of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team to provide holistic care for people with a variety of medical conditions targeting along a symptom controlquality of life continuum. This short report summarized the findings from research studies on attitudes of PTs towards education from an evidence-informed perspective through a preliminary search of PubMed database.

 Second Impact is a set motion cerebral vascular congestion which results in cerebral swelling. Death usually occurs due to transtentorial brainstem herniation. Due to rapid deterioration following acute injury some genetic markers like apolipoprotein (APOE) is associated with neurogenic responses resulting in low performance in sport related head injury. If the symptoms persists for long duration this may further predispose it to second impact which might be associated with APOE allele carriers as postulated by many authors. Further evaluation for the associated factors between APOE and second impact syndrome (SIS) is needed which helps in understanding genotype linkage with severity of head injury.

 This study was conducted to find out the correlation between the physical activity at work and leisure time physical activity of normal individuals working in the corporate sector. A total of 97 employees of various Banks and Institutes in Mangalore were recruited for this. International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) was used to measure the physical activity levels and the Rockport One Mile Walk Test was used to measure their physical fitness. The result showed a weak correlation between leisure time physical activity and physical activity at work. It was also found that more than half the study population lacked leisure time physical activity. This study suggests that there should be more awareness programmes to inform the importance of physical activity during leisure time and also steps to encourage activity at work should be taken up.  

 Background: Neck pain with cervical radiculopathy (CR), nowadays, is usually confronted in physiotherapy clinics and hospitals. The prevalence of trigger points is more in patients with CR. So many studies have been done on the treatment of CR as well as myofascial trigger points (MTrPs) so far, but none focuses on the treatment of trigger points in CR. Myofascial release (MFR) is considered to be effective in resolution of MTrPs. Objective: To compare the effect of MFR along with conventional physiotherapy and conventional physiotherapy alone in patients with myofascial trigger points in cervical radiculopathy. Methods: 30 patients will be randomized into two groups according to the inclusion criteria. Group A (experimental, n=15) will be given MFR along with conventional physiotherapy; Group B (control group, n = 15) will be given conventional physiotherapy alone. Intervention will be given for 3 weeks and then reassessment will be done for the efficacy of MFR on Neck disability index (NDI), pain intensity, pressure pain threshold (PPT) on upper trapezius and upper limb neurodynamic test for median nerve (ULNT 1). Data analysis and Result: Shapiro–wilk test will be used for normality distribution of data and accordingly wilcoxon test or paired t-test will be used within the group and independent ttest or Mann whitney U-test will be used in between the groups for data analysis. Results will be expressed as mean±standard deviation. Conclusion: This study will contribute towards evidence based practice and help in determining if MFR and conventional physiotherapy will be better than conventional physiotherapy alone in treatment of MTrps in patients with CR. 

 Background: Menopause leads to a group of disorders affecting many physiological systems. This may increase risk of injury and poor quality of life of a female. Females have greater risks of injury rate than male counterparts and effect of menopause of females musculoskeletal system is evident. The aim of the study is to check whether any significant effect of menopause on balance score of a female. Methodology: 80 females participated in this study out of which 40 females were having their regular menstrual cycle and 40 females have reached to menopause. All females were between the age of 40-46 years and with normal BMI as per WHO i.e., between 18.5-24.9. Balance score was calculated using star excursion balance test and time up and go test. Result: Both the test concludes that balance score is significantly affected in females having menopause.