Background: Rehabilitation following traumatic knee injury often focuses primarily on physical aspects. Lack of knowledge of psychological factors and appropriate strategies may be a barrier to meeting treatment recommendations to address these factors.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate whether, and to what extent, Scandinavian physical therapists address psychological factors in treatment of physically active people with traumatic knee injury.
Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative condition, which is highly heterogeneous upon diagnosis. Brain extracellular matrix (ECM) accounts for 10-20 % of the total brain volume and is responsible for the physical organization of neuronal and glia cells. Blood-based biomarkers quantifying ECM fragments holds the potential as diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Numerous factors have been identified that potentially influence athletes' mental health. Given the predominant focus in the literature on athletes' mental health risk factors, our study aimed to explore elite athletes' perceptions of factors associated with their mental health and thriving based on the combination of holistic developmental and ecological approaches.
Methods: Seven Danish international elite athletes representing diverse sports were interviewed twice.
Objectives: Childhood cancer often presents with non-specific signs and symptoms that might mimic non-malignant disorders including musculoskeletal diseases, potentially leading to rheumatic and orthopaedic misdiagnoses. We aimed to compare clinical presentation, diagnostic interval and survival in paediatric acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) with and without initial musculoskeletal symptoms.
Methods: This nationwide retrospective, cohort study reviewed medical records of 144 children below 15 years diagnosed with AML in Denmark from 1996 to 2018.
Athletes' stories about their experiences in elite sport inevitably evoke the notion of meaning, a concept, which has appeared in many shapes and forms within sport psychology. Qualitative scholarship, for example, has generated a large literature base on the meaning of experience (i.e.
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