Musculoskeletal imaging authority, levels of training, attitude, competence, and utilisation among clinical physiotherapists in Nigeria: a cross-sectional survey.

Background: Direct-access physiotherapy practice has led to a global review of the use of differential-diagnostic modalities such as musculoskeletal imaging (MI) in physiotherapy.

Objective: To explore the MI authority, levels of training, attitude, utilisation, and competence among clinical physiotherapists in Nigeria.

Methods: This national cross-sectional study analysed a voluntary response sample of 400 Nigerian physiotherapists that completed the online version of the Physiotherapist's Musculoskeletal Imaging Profiling Questionnaire (PMIPQ), using descriptive statistics, Spearman's correlation, Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal-Wallis, and Friedman's ANOVA tests.

Sonographic Assessment of Some Abdominal Organs in Children with Sickle Cell Disease in Ilorin, Nigeria.

Background: The irregular sickle cells can block blood vessels, causing tissue and organ damage and in most cases presented with pain as a result of organ ischemia. Ultrasonography is an easily available instrument for investigating abdominal organs which are most commonly affected by sickle cell disease (SCD). This study was aimed to assessing liver, gall bladder, spleen, and kidney in children with SCD in Ilorin, Kwara State.