The following research justification report shows how Secad can implement a Digital marketing plan to gain new customers, nurture the relationship with the existing customers, increase brand awareness and brand reputation. Building and nurturing brand awareness and brand reputation is vital for the …

Mirror therapy is used in a broad spectrum of rehabilitation therapy ranging from phantom limb pain, stroke, peripheral nerve injury to cerebral palsy. With the development of a virtual reality (VR) environment for mirror therapy, patients can now practice independently of time and place. However, the …

BACKGROUND: Increasing evidence indicates the potential benefits of restricted fluid management in critically ill patients. Evidence lacks on the optimal fluid management strategy for invasively ventilated COVID-19 patients. We hypothesized that the cumulative fluid balance would affect the successful …

Objectives Insight into older adults’ physical resilience is needed to predict functional recovery after hospitalization. We assessed functional trajectories in response to acute illness and subsequent hospitalization and investigated baseline variables and dynamic variables associated with these trajectories. …

Low back pain (LBP) is seen a lot in the physiotherapy primary care setting. Patients can suffer from LBP for short or long-time and sometimes it will be recurrent. Listening to the narratives of the patients, they often experience disability in their work, daily activities, hobbies and have different …

Volunteering as a complement to formal care is important in shaping a participation society and is necessary due to increasing healthcare costs and the reduced availability of healthcare personnel. However, little is known about the mental health and factors that influence the mental health of a specific …

Background: Patient education, home-based exercise therapy, and advice on returning to normal activities are established physiotherapeutic treatment options for patients with nonspecific low back pain (LBP). However, the effectiveness of physiotherapy interventions on health-related outcomes largely …

Background: Pregnant women have preferences about how they intend to manage labour pain. Unmet intentions can result in negative emotions and/or birth experiences. Objective: To examine the antenatal level of intention for intrapartum pain relief and the factors that might predict this intention. Design: …

Background: Self-management support is considered an important component in the physiotherapeutic treatment of people with chronic low back pain. The stratified blended physiotherapy intervention e-Exercise Low Back Pain is an example of a self-management intervention. More insight may contribute to …

Background: Home-based exercise is an important part of physical therapy treatment for patients with low back pain. However, treatment effectiveness depends heavily on patient adherence to home-based exercise recommendations. Smartphone apps designed to support home-based exercise have the potential …