Background: Posture is the alignment or orientation of body segments by maintaining an upright position. The postural deviations associated with change in young people’s behavior have increased. Incorrect posture refers to an irregular state of the body in which the body does not sustain a steady state and tissues and organs function normally in an erect position. Objective: The objectives of this study were to check the knowledge about body posture, attitude towards good and bad posture and practice for correcting the wrong posture to prevent complications in physiotherapy students. Methodology: An observational cross sectional study was conducted among the physiotherapy students from University Institute of Physical Therapy (UIPT), The University of Lahore Chenab Campus; Pakistan. For knowledge section Questionnaire on level of awareness of body use in young people was used, for attitude section a self-structured questionnaire and for practice section (Q-BAPHYP) was used. Data were analyzed by using SPSS (version 21.0). Results: Out of 202 physiotherapy students, 21(10.4%) were males and 181(89.6%) were females. 12.4% students were from 2nd year, 37.1% from 3rd year, 28.2% from 4th year and 22.3% from 5th year. Average age was 21.43 years. Among the total 36(17.8%) student’s had knowledge of good posture, 143(70.8%) often good posture. 168(83.2%) students responded of having a positive attitude towards good posture and only 11(5.4%) always practices good posture in their daily life. There is a positive but a weak correlation between knowledge and attitude (Spearman Correlation value=0.138) Conclusion: It was found that the physiotherapy students had knowledge of good posture and showed a positive attitude towards good posture but they are not well practicing it in their daily routine. Key words: Bad posture, Ergonomics, Good posture, Kinematics, Posture, Scoliosis
Physiotherapists play an important part in providing health care and physiotherapy is a recognized profession around the globe. Physiotherapy is a medical specialty that focuses on human function and mobility in order to aid people attains their full potential; It is significant to have a good understanding towards careers associated to one's field of study. Objective: The aim of the study was to assess the awareness regarding physiotherapy among urban and rural general population in Gujranwala Division. Methods: This observational study was carried out on a sample size of 384 divided equally into 192 urban and 192 rural population of people including male and female both from age group 20 years or above through non probability random sampling. The study was carried out in general population of Gujranwala Division for 6 months. Self-made Likert scale was developed to collect data. The responses were analyzed through SPSS. Results: Out of 384 participant’s population of urban area had high knowledge attitude and practice level regarding awareness of physiotherapy whereas rural population showed moderate to low knowledge attitude and practice level. According to association between education and awareness from category Undergraduate-post graduate were highly aware of physiotherapy, while other participant’s awareness was moderate to low. Conclusions: A very good response was seen in urban population of Gujranwala Division, mostly people were highly aware of physiotherapy, whereas in rural population there was a moderate to poor response. A strong association was seen between education and physiotherapy. Higher level of education displayed powerful impact on awareness of people. Education plays an impactful role in better understanding of physiotherapy.
ABSTRACT… Objectives: Muscles and skeleton work together if any human being wants to roam around. If muscles and joint move to their full range then a free and purposeful action is achieved and goal is met for which movement was performed. If movement abnormality is seen then its underlying cause can be tight muscle especially the hamstring in the lower extremity. Tight hamstring is quite common in normal individuals. This tightness is not desirable and needs to be treated particularly when somebody needs to perform full range of motion without any difficulty. There are numerous choices to achieve this purpose. Different researchers use different choices according to their own thinking. The main theme underlying this research is to find out evidence based treatment option to treat the tight hamstring group. Study Design: randomized controlled trial. Place and Duration: different football clubs of Lahore from March 2015 to June 2015. Methodology: For this research two groups of football players were utilized. One group was selected for post isometric relaxation technique alone while other group received a combination therapy containing post isometric relaxation and cross frictional massage. Result: the p-value for the group 1 was 0.51 while for group 2 was 0.000. Conclusion: After conducting this research a conclusion was drawn that a combination of post isometric relaxation and cross frictional massage showed better results in releasing the tightness of hamstring than alone therapy. So a combination therapy comprising post isometric relaxation and cross frictional massage was a better choice to treat tight hamstring. Key words:Post Isomteric Relaxation, Straight Leg Raise, SLR, Cross Frictional Massage. Article Citation: Islam F, Arshad K, Arif MA, Bashir MS. Post isometric hamstring stretching; Efficacy of post isometric hamstring stretching with and without cross frictional massage football players.
Background: Pakistan is having higher prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus. Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) has been linked with substantial short- and long-term adverse health results, such as Diabetes Mellitus, increased risk of cardio-metabolic disorders later in life among both women and infants. GDM has seven times significantly increased risk of diabetes mellitus. The objective of this study is to calculate the prevalence of diabetes mellitus among multigravida females with the history of gestational diabetes. Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted on 153 women with multigravida having history of gestational diabetes was selected by convenient sampling. This study was conducted between Augusts to December 2021. Data were collected by a self-structured questionnaire. Data were entered and analyzed by SPSS 24. P value ? 0.05 was considered as significant value. Results: Out of total 153, prevalence of diabetes mellitus persists among the females with multigravida and having the history of gestational diabetes was observed 71(46.40%). Obesity, stress, lack of physical activity, Family history of Diabetes, Hypertension, elevated birth weight are some major risk factors of Diabetes mellitus after GDM. Conclusion: Diabetes mellitus that persists after GDM have high prevalence and higher risk among multigravida females. For prevention of DM, early diagnosis screening, awareness should create about risk factors of DM and appropriate exercises during gestation period in females should perform. Keywords: Cross-sectional, Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, Diabetes Mellitus, Multigravida, Nulliparous.
The shoulder joint is the most mobile joint in the body. It performs movements in different directions and can easily be injured due to any repeated movements, participation in sports or any labor work. Shoulder pain is one of the most important complaint due to which teachers apply for retirement before time. The aim of the study was to determine frequency of shoulder pain in school teachers of Lahore, Pakistan. Methods: It was an observational study in which thousand school teachers were given self-administered Performa. Schools were selected randomly. The data analysis was done by using SPSS 21 version. Results: The prevalence of shoulder pain came out to be 306 (30.6%). The number of teachers teaching from five years was 577 (57.7%) and the mean age calculated was 30.86. Conclusion: This study concluded high prevalence of shoulder pain in school teachers.
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