Integrating Faculty Scholarly Productivity Indicators with Professional Network Development Strategies: New Inferences Generated from Mixing Methods.

Introduction: Professional network connections among health professions faculty are essential for engagement, innovation, and productivity. The research question was, "How do strategies for developing a professional network of early career health professions faculty contribute to our understanding of effective guidance for scholarly productivity?"

Methods: The method was an explanatory sequential mixed method. Study participants were 50 full-time equivalent physical therapist faculty in their first 5 years at accredited institutions in the U.

A preliminary investigation of digital media supplements for head and neck anatomy: Does production format matter?

From cassettes to digital, use of video in education has evolved. Supplemental digital media is a common educational adjunct within gross anatomy courses. As these aids have advanced technologically, so has production cost.

Effects of Leg Length, Sex, Laterality, and the Intermediate Femoral Cutaneous Nerve on Infrapatellar Innervation.

Background: An iatrogenic injury to the infrapatellar branch of the saphenous nerve (IPBSN) is a common precipitant of postoperative knee pain and hypoesthesia.

Purpose: To locate potential safe zones for incision by observing the patterns and pathway of the IPBSN while examining the relationship of its location to sex, laterality, and leg length.

Study Design: Descriptive laboratory study.

Stylohyoid Syndrome.

A 26-year-old male presented with an ache deep to the angle of the left mandible and moderate, constant pain with swallowing, symptoms that had begun 3 years earlier. He was diagnosed with Eagle syndrome, characterized by cervical oropharynx pain due to an elongated styloid process. The patient consulted a physical therapist, who instructed the patient on a home exercise program based on imaging and examination findings.

Heterotopic Ossification Following Hip Arthroscopy.

A 21-year-old woman initiated physical therapy 4 days following hip arthroscopic labrum debridement and osteochondroplasty. During postoperative rehabilitation, the patient's status regressed. With persistent symptoms, at 10 weeks postsurgery a computed tomography scan revealed, as confirmed by radiographs, heterotopic ossification development.

An Anatomic Investigation of the Ober Test.

Background: Recent studies have questioned the importance of the iliotibial band (ITB) in lateral knee pain. The Ober test or modified Ober test is the most commonly recommended physical examination tool for assessment of ITB tightness. No studies support the validity of either Ober test for measuring ITB tightness.

T1 radiculopathy.

The patient was a 40-year-old man who had experienced a constant deep ache over his left T1-2 paravertebral muscle region. Following 2 weeks of physical therapist intervention with no improvement, the patient self-referred to a neurosurgeon. Magnetic resonance imaging of the cervical and upper thoracic spine regions was ordered and revealed a left paracentral disc protrusion at T1-2 that resulted in moderate left foraminal stenosis.

A patient with internal carotid artery dissection.

Background And Purpose: The purpose of this case report is to raise physical therapist awareness of Horner syndrome as a "red flag" for immediate medical referral.

Case Description: A 45-year-old man sought physical therapy for examination and treatment of neck pain and headache symptoms 5 days after experiencing a whiplash-type injury while waterskiing. His complaints were similar to a prior condition diagnosed as occipital neuralgia that had successfully responded to education, cervical and thoracic joint mobilization, and exercise provided by a physical therapist.

A comparative evaluation of teaching methods in an introductory neuroscience course for physical therapy students.

Background: The use of computer-based instruction (CBI) in physical therapy education is growing, but its effectiveness compared to lecture is undefined. This study compared CBI to lecture in an introductory neuroscience course for students in their first year of a 3 year professional program leading to the Doctor of Physical Therapy Degree.

Subjects: Twenty-eight students participated in 2003 and 34 in 2004.

Use of the Human Activity Profile for estimating fitness in persons with arthritis.

Objective: To evaluate the usefulness of the Human Activity Profile (HAP) in predicting estimated maximal oxygen uptake (VO(2max)) in persons with arthritis and to evaluate the ability of 2 classification systems to distinguish individuals with arthritis who have poor fitness from those with average and above fitness.

Methods: Forty-four subjects with arthritis completed the HAP and a submaximal treadmill test. The adjusted activity score (AAS) was derived from responses on the HAP.

Are physical therapy clinical instructors teaching the Institute of Medicine core competencies? An exploratory investigation using student perceptions.

Unlabelled: The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has recommended instituting clinical education reforms to ensure all health profession graduates acquire five core competencies; providing patient-centered care, working in interdisciplinary teams, employing evidence-based practice, applying quality improvement and utilizing informatics. The IOM has identified 28 specific skills associated with these competencies. This qualitative, exploratory study was conducted to begin to examine the extent to which physical therapy clinical instructors provide students with instruction the students perceived as promoting the acquisition of these skills.

Effects of specific exercise instructions on abdominal muscle activity during trunk curl exercises.

Study Design: A repeated-measures, counterbalanced design.

Objectives: To test whether subjects could learn and retain the ability to alter the relative activity of abdominal muscle groups when performing trunk curl exercises.

Background: Although trunk curl exercises are widely prescribed, a disadvantage of trunk curls is that they primarily activate rectus abdominis, while the internal and external oblique abdominis muscles are considered to be more important contributors to lumbar stability.