Background
In the emergency setting, the onus is on the individual practitioner’s ability to make
critical decisions at critical moments in order to provide the best level of care to their
patient. In order to ensure ...
South Africa is currently at the epicentre of the AIDS epidemic with 5.6 million
people living with HIV disease.
The province of KwaZulu-Natal has the
biggest burden with an antenatal HIV prevalence of 39.5% in 2010. ...
Ferreira Dos Santos, Claudia Marisa Goncalves(2013-01-21)
Cardiomyopathies and their resultant heart failure (HF) remain a
major cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality (Wood and Picard, 2004).
Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDCMO) is a primary myocardial disease ...
The sirolimus-eluting stent (Cypher) was the first approved drug-
eluting stent by the Food and Drug Administration in April 2003. This is a stent
that is based on a bare-metal stent and is coated with a layer of ...
Palliative care research in South Africa is at an early stage and there is an increasing
need to develop a body of evidence that is relevant to South African conditions. One
of the biggest challenges that palliative care ...
This study examined the perceptions of South African dental laboratory
owners, dental technicians and dentists so as to understand their opinions
and experiences regarding the outsourcing of dental prostheses in ...
Introduction
The safe transfer of neonates from one healthcare facility to another is an integral
component in the process of neonatal care. Neonates, a term applying specifically to
infants during the first 28 days of ...
In South Africa, HIV and AIDS workplace programmes have been implemented for more
than two decades without any audited and certifiable standards. In 2007, the South
African National Standard launched South African National ...
Introduction: This study aimed to apply the methodology of group analysis, as
proposed by Sankaran, to an under-represented and poorly-understood biological
class. The intention of the study was to extend the group ...
It was reported by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Diabetes Atlas, in 2003, that a prevalence figure of 3.4% exists for the 24 million South Africans between the ages of 20 and 79, with an expected increase to ...
INTRODUCTION
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD) is a multifactorial and clinically heterogeneous disorder that is associated with tremendous financial burden, stress to families and adverse academic and ...
Background:Myofascial Pain Syndrome is characterized by localized muscle pain, in which affected muscles are in a chronically-shortened state and contain trigger points.It is the single most common source of musculoskeletal ...
Objectives:
To determine the prevalence and associated risk factors of low back pain (LBP) in an automotive production company, evaluating the relationship between selected risk factors, type of occupational activity and ...
Background: Previous investigations on the epidemiology of low back pain (LBP) in South
Africa where limited to black, indian and coloured populations to the exclusion of whites. Thus
the aim of this study was to determine ...
Background: Hamstring muscle strains are a common musculoskeletal injury amongst athletes, with a high rate of recurrence that suggests room for improvement in the treatment and management of these injuries. Cibulka et al. ...
Background:
Attempts to determine the association between the radiographic and clinical findings of knee
pathology have produced conflicting results. It is also not yet known how knee radiographs
influence the conservative ...
Background: Animal chiropractic, an internationally sanctioned profession, assists veterinarians with a complementary approach to animal healthcare therapy. Animal chiropractic in South Africa appears to be within its novel ...
The Chiropractic profession has made significant progress with regard to the production of high quality and clinically relevant research in the last 20 years. This correlates with a spike in development within the chiropractic ...
Background: Therapeutic dry needling is an established modality for the treatment of myofascial pain, whereas limited research on Kinesiotape® exists. Kinesiotaping®
is becoming popular, with the main benefit of being ...
Lateral epicondylalgia (L.E) is a common diagnosis in elbow pathology. The aetiology is poorly understood but it is generally accepted to be as a result of repetitive microtrauma, affecting the proximal end of the extensor ...