Search for dissertations about: "Physical medicine"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 1172 swedish dissertations containing the words Physical medicine.
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1. Young today-adult tomorrow! Studies on physical status, physical activity, attitudes, and self-perception in children and adolescents
University dissertation from Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund UniversityAbstract : The aim was to gain knowledge of young people's physical status and physical activity, and to further the understanding of the role of school physical education in a salutogenic public health perspective. Two studies were performed in southern Sweden. Study 1 was performed in 1996 among 301 adolescents aged 16-19 in upper secondary school. READ MORE
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2. Physical Fitness and Pregnancy
University dissertation from Uppsala : Acta Universitatis UpsaliensisAbstract : Objectives To assess physical fitness in pregnancy and to evaluate its effect on perceived health, back pain, blood pressure and duration of gestation. Also, to evaluate the effect of serum relaxin levels on blood pressure and duration of gestation. READ MORE
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3. Implementing psychosocial factors in physical therapy treatment for patients with musculoskeletal pain in primary care
University dissertation from Örebro : Örebro universitetAbstract : This dissertation focuses on 2 parts: 1) Whether evidence-based guidelines are recognized and integrated into clinical practice in primary care and 2) Whether a university course aimed at teaching physical therapists to identify and address evidence-based psychosocial factors in primary care might change practice behaviour and patient outcome. To this end practising clinicians were surveyed and a course for physical therapists was developed. READ MORE
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4. The Impact of Advanced Home Care on Health-related Quality of Life Reports in the end of life from palliative care patients with cancer
University dissertation from Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund UniversityAbstract : ABSTRACT The aim of the present work was to compare patients with advanced cancer receiving specialized palliative home care with those receiving conventional care. A hospital-based advanced home care programme was initiated, in order to enable patients to remain at home for a longer period and to choose to die at home. READ MORE
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5. Beyond the established risk factors of myocardial infarction lifestyle factors and novel biomarkers
University dissertation from Umeå : Folkhälsa och klinisk medicinAbstract : Age, male sex, hypertension, smoking, diabetes, dyslipidaemia, and obesity are considered as established risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. Several of these established cardiovascular risk factors are strongly influenced by lifestyle. READ MORE
