Comparisons of Clinical Competency and Job Responsibilities of Physical Therapists With and Without Postprofessional Training.

Introduction: Understanding how educational pathways may influence clinical competence and work responsibilities is important in providing guidance to academic and clinic stakeholders and physical therapists (PTs) on PT career development. The purpose of this paper was to compare perceived clinical competency and job duties between PTs with formal mentored postprofessional clinical education with PTs without formal postprofessional clinical education.

Review Of Literature: The understanding of self-perceived clinical competence of PTs overall in the United States is limited, especially as related to the impact of postprofessional education.

Defeating Urinary Incontinence with Exercise Training: Results of a Pilot Study in Frail Older Women.

Objectives: To determine whether combining behavioral urinary incontinence (UI) treatments with physical activity improves UI in frail older women.

Design: Single-blind, two-arm pilot randomized controlled trial.

Setting: Senior apartments.

Factors associated with toileting disability in older adults without dementia living in residential care facilities.

Background: Older adults without dementia living in residential care facilities with toileting disability have increased care costs and dependency. Understanding associated factors could guide prevention and management strategies.

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the prevalence of and factors associated with toileting disability in this population.