Purpose: To describe the appropriate experience for entry-level physical therapist students in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Key Points: Care for infants in the NICU represents a subspecialty within pediatric physical therapy delivered in a very complex environment. Recommendations for designing student educational experiences related to the NICU are provided.
Conclusions/practice Implications: Supervised observation is the appropriate level of NICU experience for physical therapy students. Observation in the NICU cannot be used to demonstrate entry-level clinical competency defined as managing 100% patient caseload in the setting. Additional closely supervised experiences with older, less fragile infants and children in neonatal follow-up clinics and pediatric wards can provide opportunities for entry-level physical therapist students interested in pediatrics to participate in examination and intervention with young children.
This review focuses on chronic pediatric skin conditions-vitiligo, psoriasis, alopecia, and eczema-and their profound psychosocial impact on children and adolescents. Currently, a comprehensive comparative analysis across these conditions is absent, and comparisons between diverse psychosocial measures are lacking. This review aims to bridge that gap through a systematic review analyzing studies from PubMed and Embase up to April 2023 according to PRISMA.
Unlabelled: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a global health problem, CKD is widespread in the world, on average it is detected in 10-13% of the adult population. Sedentary patients with CKD on dialysis have a higher risk of mortality. Despite the significant association of physical function with mortality in patients with CKD, physical function is not routinely assessed and exercise is not a component of the routine management of patients with CKD on dialysis.
Unlabelled: Lymphedema is a chronic disabling disease that affects 250 million people worldwide. To this date, it has been proven that treatment of this category of patients should be truly integrated - combining surgical, therapeutic methods and recovery procedures.
Objective: To study the influence of intermittent pneumatic compression (IPC) on microvasculature in patients with lymphedema of the lower extremities.
Unlabelled: Dystrophinopathies - a group of hereditary X-linked neuromuscular diseases characterized by worsening fibrofatty degeneration of skeletal muscles, muscular weakness, low exercise tolerance, as well as orthopedic, cardiovascular and respiratory complications. Study of the effectiveness of physical medical rehabilitation in patients with neuromuscular diseases, evaluation of the influence of external and internal factors on functional capabilities and effectiveness of the conducted rehabilitation are highly relevant.
Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of physical medical rehabilitation of patients with dystrophinopathies at the outpatient stages of the disease's course and the influence of anthropometric characteristics and functional status of patients' motor capabilities.
