Vol. 30. Issue 4. (In progress)
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Physical therapy techniques reduce pain caused by endometriosis.
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Physical therapy techniques improve quality of life in endometriosis.
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Massage, electrotherapy, exercise, and health education reduce pelvic symptoms.
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Long-COVID requires individualised, patient-centred physiotherapy care.
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Screen for red flags and post-exertional malaise before prescribing exercise.
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Pacing and energy conservation are useful for fatigue management.
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Multidisciplinary care supports recovery and return-to-work planning.
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Patients achieved similar reductions in knee pain with single- and three-set resistance training.
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Patients improved self-reported function to a similar extent with single- and three-set resistance training.
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Both training approaches produced comparable gains in muscle strength and hop performance.
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Single-set resistance training represents an effective and time-efficient intervention for the initial management of patellofemoral pain (PFP).
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Supervised, moderate-intensity, multimodal training delivered over 16 weeks improves sleep in older adults.
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Those who underwent training experienced an increase in sleep efficiency, achieved by reducing sleep latency, average awakenings, sleep fragmentation, and WASO.
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Older adults showed high adherence to the training programme. Therefore, these findings provide valuable information for decision-making when choosing the most appropriate exercise modalities for older populations.
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These findings could contribute to the recommendation of multimodal training as a strategy to improve sleep.
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BacKS was successfully translated into Brazilian Portuguese (BacKS-BR).
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The BacKS-BR has adequate content, construct, and structural validity.
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Internal consistency and reliability were both acceptable (>0.70).
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BacKS-BR showed acceptable cross-cultural measurement invariance.
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BacKS-BR can be used to assess evidence-based understanding of low back pain.
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The DPEBBS-BP presented adequate measurement properties.
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Overall, participants scored benefits higher than barriers.
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Younger and physically active individuals perceived greater benefits.
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Barriers showed moderate correlations with DASI and the functional capacity domain (SF-36).
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This is a valuable tool for Brazilian professionals to evaluate people on hemodialysis.
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The health education program promotes women’s protagonism during labor.
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The lack of encouragement to use pain-relief resources was a barrier for the parturients.
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Proper support facilitates the implementation of health education program guidelines.
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The presence of a companion in childbirth had a positive impact on women in labor.
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Cervical spine movement sense test can provide sufficient sensitivity and specificity.
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Multiple classifiers have to be included to provide a trustworthy classification model.
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Specific movement deficits are representative for patients with neck pain.
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Persistent pain demands a systems approach spanning individual to societal levels.
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Education and mentorship are needed to support PTs in psychologically informed care.
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Better funding models are needed for adequate time and resources in pain management.
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The profession must drive systemic change in training, resources, and funding.
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Global cognitive impairment was associated with slower gait speed in older adults.
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Impaired global cognition increased slower gait prevalence by 63%.
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Verbal fluency and delayed memory showed the strongest associations with gait.
speed.
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Higher education attenuated the association between cognitive impairment and gait speed.
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Pain threshold step-up test is most closely related to PFP PROMs.
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Squat test was not associated with any PROM investigated.
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Step-up test could compliment assessment of pain, quality of life and sport.
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Changes in step-up test in the clinic can be used to monitor treatment progress.
