ABSTRACT
Behaviour Therapy is not used to a great extent in the physiotherapy management of chronic low back pain; yet the clinical research literature indicates that behavioural techniques may assist the maintenance of treatment gains. Two questionnaires were devised for hospital-based physiotherapy graduates to assess knowledge of behaviour therapy techniques and their relevance to physiotherapy management of the patient with chronic low back pain. Third-year undergraduate physiotherapy students who had just completed their Behaviour Therapy course at Cumberland College of Health Sciences, constituted the comparison group. Results showed that the graduates and physiotherapy students had comparable levels of knowledge. Both groups believed that the physiotherapist's use of behaviour therapy techniques was primarily for the purposes of improving the patient's daily activity and muscular state. Physiotherapy training for the management of this difficult patient group is discussed.
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Accidents, Traffic , Automobile Driving , Mortality , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Alberta , Alcoholic Intoxication , Female , Humans , Male , Middle AgedABSTRACT
A 3-year enpidemiologic study of fatal motor vehicle accidents was carried out by the Alberta Task Force on Highway Accidents. It was found that 11.1% of culpable drivers had been driving while impaired by alcohol on at least one occasion prior to the fatal accident, while only 3.3% of exonerated drivers had previous records. This significant difference led to a case-control study that demonstrated that the recidivist drivers (case group) differed significantly in a number of aspects from the innocent drivers (control group)--notably, age distribution, sex, whether drinking before the accident, blood alcohol concentration, ethnic distribution, class of accident and type of collision. Thus the recidivist driver is a greater threat to highway safety than the innocent driver and needs special attention by legislators and law enforcement agencies.
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Accidents, Traffic , Automobile Driving , Age Factors , Alcohol Drinking , Humans , Sex Factors , Socioeconomic FactorsABSTRACT
In 1970-72, 456 (53.4%) of 854 drivers responsible for a motor vehicle accident in which either they or other persons were killed had been drinking beforehand. Of surviving culpable drivers tested for blood alcohol concentration 81.7% were found to be legally impaired; however, only 24.8% of these drivers were tested. Because surviving culpable drivers pose a possible future hazard to highway safety it is important that data on this group be collected and analysed.
