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Determining the feasibility of a prehabilitative injury prevention programme for netball players in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
Background: The South African government has taken a stance to prioritise sporting codes within South Africa that report high participation and is inclusive of the population demographic of South Africa. Netball has been ...
Evidence to inform the development of physiotherapy guidelines for HIV-infected and HIV non-infected women following obstetric and gynaecological surgery
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
Methods to improve women’s health have become an urgent global priority. Development of clinical guidelines is viewed as a way of improving the quality of health care in South Africa. At present there are no physiotherapy ...
Blended learning in physiotherapy education: designing and evaluating a technology-integrated approach
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
Background: Practice knowledge exists as a complex relationship between questions and answers in a context of meaning that is often intuitive and hidden from the novice practitioner. Physiotherapy education, which aims to ...
The development of design principles to guide the development of clinical reasoning in physiotherapy education
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
Clinical reasoning is enigmatic; however, students need to learn how to do it, educators need to be able to develop it, and experts need to explain how they do it. Health professions educators have described clinical ...
Development of an evidence-based physiotherapy treatment protocol for acute non-specific neck pain in Ethiopia
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Although neck pain is increasingly being considered as an important public health problem in
Ethiopia, there is no treatment protocol guiding physiotherapy practice for acute non-specific
neck pain (NSNP) in this setting. ...
The development of a health care decision-making model to improve survival of persons with traumatic spinal cord injuries (tSCI)
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
A scarcity of data exists regarding the processes of care and its effects on mortality and the functioning of patients with traumatic spinal cord injuries (tSCI). To improve survival rates of these patients, one will need ...