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UW Madison Shows Wii's Physical Therapy Benefits

The 17-year-old with cystic fibrosis had been hospitalized repeatedly during his short life, and he was angry. Angry at his disease, which confined him to a room at American Family Children's Hospital even though he was a young man. Angry with the nurses and therapists who swept in busily at all hours, pushing breathing treatments he hated and exercises he found silly.

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Physical therapy is effective for management of low-back pain

A new review article published in the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons should help convince many patients with low back pain to consider physical therapy as a first line of treatment for their condition, according to the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA).

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Physical therapy is cost-effective form of treatment for Americans with diabetes

Research shows aerobic exercise combined with resistance training improves glucose control in diabetics

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Will patients stick to physical therapy?

Patients' responses to a simple questionnaire can reliably predict whether they will adhere to physical therapy after spine surgery, Johns Hopkins researchers suggest in a new study.

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Wiimote as an interface bridging mind and body

The Nintendo Wii is an immensely popular source of videogame entertainment, but more recently, it has been adapted for a number of different uses, such as a tool for physical therapy and as a form of exercise for geriatrics.

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Physical therapy in ICU can reduce hospital stays

The results of the first study to show the effectiveness of early physical therapy in a medical intensive care unit (ICU) are being presented today (Oct. 23) by a researcher from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center at the national meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians in Chicago.

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Weight training gets workers with rotator cuff injuries back on job

Resistance training, some of it job-specific, was successful in getting 90 percent of workers with severe rotator cuff injuries back to work, the majority (75 percent) at their previous job, after traditional physical therapy had failed to do so. Furthermore, all but one of the 42 employees in the study (98 percent) reported satisfaction with the resistance-training program and its outcome.

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