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Browsing Rehabilitation Teaching and Research Unit by Date Added
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(Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2013)Background and purpose: Understanding how people living with tetraplegia experience rehabilitation can help establish how those individuals make sense of their social realities during rehabilitation, and whether services ...
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(Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2012)Sustaining a spinal cord injury (SCI) has a profound impact upon the individual with the injury and their family members, particularly their partner. Little is known about the couple’s experience of injury impact and how ... -
(Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2012)Background: The nature of relationships that people with spinal cord injury (SCI) have with paid carers may facilitate or interfere with their community participation and quality of life. Learning how to live with this ... -
(Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2012)Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a common condition affecting women. POP symptoms are associated with perineal, abdominal and pelvic discomfort, bladder and bowel disorders and psychological distress. POP is often treated ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)Background: Surgical techniques to improve strength and function in paralysed upper limbs in people with tetraplegia have been available since the early 1970s. These techniques improve upper limb function and quality of ...
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(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2011)The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of young people with physical impairment of social marketing media that promoted physical activity. This was based on a generally held view that physical activity ... -
(Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2011)Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of joint disease and the leading cause of pain and physical disability in older adults. New Zealand's population is ageing and by the late 2040s, the proportion of the population ... -
(Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2011)Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a degenerative condition which affects everyone differently as regards emergence of symptoms. The illness uncertainty associated with MS has ramifications for how those with the condition and ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)Background: Mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) results in persisting disability for a significant minority and factors influencing non-recovery remain poorly understood. Descriptive recovery models suggest psychological ... -
(Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2010)Background: Previous research has suggested that an association exists between clinician held beliefs about pain and clinicians’ treatment recommendations for clients with chronic low back pain. Such treatment recommendations ...
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