This accredited course is designed to help you improve walking ability in neurological rehabilitation. Neurological conditions can be extensive and include several limbs with different degrees of severity. A person's disability is not the same. Therefore, it can be difficult to rehabilitate injuries and disabilities. If you take into account the complexity of the central and peripheral nervous system, it…
A checklist for subjective and objective assessment of the ankle. Lateral ankle injuries are incredibly common injuries that all physical therapists will see throughout their careers, not just in an MSK environment. Yes, they are more common in sports, but also in neurological and older patient groups. In this course, Lee Herrington will guide you through performing a solid evidence-based…
This course program was created by the great Physioplus team! There are many circumstances that can lead to amputations affecting the lower extremities, such as: B. Traumas in traffic accidents and consequences of chronic diseases such as diabetes. With adequate care, access to a prosthesis and the associated rehabilitation, many of these people can regain a high level of functionality…
It is time again to show our appreciation to a dedicated physiopedia. Mariam has volunteered for Physiopedia since 2018 and has been involved in numerous projects, sites and courses. You can bet that Mariam's work crossed your path at some point while using Physiopedia resources. Her smile, reliability, and determination are contagious and have benefited anyone who has had the…
As a neurological physiotherapist, I am used to pushing my patients to exercise, but I admit that this is all aimed at achieving certain goals that lead to increased function, e.g. can switch independently between bed and chair, have gait improvement, can use their hemiplegic upper limbs when eating / getting dressed. Finally, we are constantly asked to focus our…
Find out the most important evaluation results for the differential diagnosis of knee pain. The knee joint is located on the largest and most complex joints in the body and is a joint that all physiotherapists should be familiar with. Knowing what illness your patient is suffering from can be confusing due to the complexity, and making the right treatment…
The latest edition of the Physioplus course catalog focuses on ampute rehabilitation and will explain the need to understand concepts before you begin ampute rehabilitation. The course deals with the phases of amputee rehabilitation, the involvement of multidisciplinary teams and the causes and principles of amputation. The content consists of videos, reading, forum posts and a final quiz to test…
On Physioplus we have a new knee course for you. Tears of the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) account for 3% of outpatient knee injuries and 38% of acute traumatic osteoarthritis of the knee. These injuries rarely occur in isolation, and up to 95% of PCL tears occur in combination with other ligament tears. PCL tears are increasingly recognized as the…
First a big thank you to Naomi McVey, Janet Thomas, Paula Manning and Jack Chew who made our session great. It's been a while since I was on stage at the Digital CPD Focused Symposium at Physiotherapy UK 2019 in Birmingham. It has taken me a while to sit down and complete this post, but now I am here and…
This is the last part of the 4-course mental health program to be released. Evidence is growing to suggest that mental health problems are responsible for a large part of the disability burden experienced by people around the world. Physiotherapists who are in close personal contact with clients in healthcare must understand the effects of mental health on the conditions…