Fatma A. Hegazy

University of Sharjah | US · Department of Physiotherapy

In literature, the development of spinal deformities was reported after surgical intervention for congenital heart disease using thoracotomy and sternotomy incisions in children; however, there are not enough data regarding the incidence of spinal kyphosis after open-heart surgery in adults. This study aimed to determine the impact of open-heart su...

In literature, the development of spinal deformities was reported after surgical intervention for congenital heart disease using thoracotomy and sternotomy incisions in children; however, there are not enough data regarding the incidence of spinal kyphosis after open-heart surgery in adults. This study aimed to determine the impact of open-heart su...

Background: Physiotherapy is an essential component of paediatric burn treatment. Children are admitted to the paediatric burn unit with their caregivers who play a vital role in supporting the child's post-burn physiotherapy management. Objective: The objective of the study is to determine caregivers' attitudes on physiotherapy treatment for ch...

Analyzing the current state of artificial intelligence (AI) is a critical first step toward its integration into physiotherapy practice. Therefore, this study aimed to assess physiotherapist (PT) perceptions, knowledge, and willingness to accept AI implementation. An exploratory cross-sectional online questionnaire was conducted for PT working in U...

BACKGROUND: After cardiac surgery, various pulmonary complications develop which require specific care. These complications affect pulmonary functions and can lengthen the hospital stay of patients, causing increased hospital costs and becoming an important cause of morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the short-term effect of inspir...

Introduction Chronic pain has multiple aetiological factors and complexity. Pain theory helps us to guide and organize our thinking to deal with this complexity. The objective of this paper is to critically review the most influential theory in pain science history (the gate control theory of pain) and focus on its implications in chronic pain reha...

Background: Maximum inspiratory pressure (MIP), maximum expiratory pressure (MEP) and maximum voluntary ventilation (MVV) measurements assist in determining the respiratory muscle strength and endurance. These determinants of respiratory muscles vary significantly by age, gender, height, and ethnic origin. Normative values for maximum respiratory...

Objective: Clinically, the foot posture index-6 (FPI-6) and Clarke's angle (CA) are widely utilized to assess static foot posture; however, due to scarcity of scientific evidence, clinicians continue to debate the validity and diagnostic accuracy of these measures in children and adolescents. This study aimed to evaluate and compare the validity a...

Background Evidence based practice (EBP) is widely used by cardiopulmonary physical therapists worldwide. Therefore, it is important to identify whether the therapists have the required knowledge, skills and resources in order to deliver the best evidence-based practice. Objectives The main objective of this cross-sectional study is to analyse the...

The study aimed to measure Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) and fear level towards COVID-19 and explore its cross-cultural variances in knowledge by sociodemographic factors among the general population of 8 different countries over 5 continents. It was a cross-sectional online survey. This survey was conducted in April 2020 among 1296 parti...

Objectives Although, pre-operative inspiratory muscle training has been investigated and reported to be an effective strategy to reduce postoperative pulmonary complications, the efficacy of postoperative inspiratory muscle training as well as the proper load, frequency, and duration necessary to reduce the postoperative pulmonary complications has...

A randomized controlled study was conducted to evaluate the effect of rehabilitation of the cervical sagittal configuration on sensorimotor integration and central conduction time in an asymptomatic population. Eighty (32 female) participants with radiographic cervical hypolordosis and anterior head translation posture were randomly assigned to eit...

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is an important factor determining the quality of healthcare. The field of physiotherapy is still limited by indirect access in several countries including the United Arab Emirates (UAE) which creates added pressure to justify the merit in its practitioner’s capabilities. This study explores the behavior, attitudes, aw...

Background There are two primary ways of accessing physiotherapy for service users around the world. The direct access, as opposed to the indirect access which requires a referral from a general physician, has several merits including better quality, timeliness, cost effectiveness of treatment and better probability of preventing acute conditions f...

Background: Clinical diagnosis of Paediatric flexible flatfoot is still a challenging issue for the healthcare professionals. Clarke's Angle (CA) is frequently used clinically for assessing foot posture; however there is still a debate about its validity and diagnostic accuracy in evaluation of static foot posture especially in Paediatric populati...

Background: Spasticity is a common impairment seen in children with cerebral palsy (CP) and may interfere with functional performance and effective walking pattern. Lidocaine iontophoresis is effective for reducing muscle spasticity in adults. Purpose: To investigate the effect of lidocaine epinephrine iontophoresis combined with exercises on ga...

Background: Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP), and Fear toward COVID-19 are an important issue when designing public health approaches to control the spread of this highly contagious disease like COVID-19 during the global pandemic period. Studies with KAP and fear measures are limited only regional or country level, not yet with global or cro...

Background: Diagnosis of flexible flatfoot is usually based upon radiographic or clinical measures. Radiographic measures pose a potential risk of radiation exposure especially in Paediatric population. Clinicians need a valid, accurate, easily used, noninvasive and cost effective measure to evaluate static foot posture clinically. Although, foot...

[Purpose] The aim of this study was to identify cognitive impairments in patients with a recent stroke using Stroke Impact Scale 3.0 (SIS). [Participants and Methods] A retrospective cohort study was conducted to evaluate 50 medical records in patients with a recent stroke who have completed a stroke rehabilitation programme. All data were evaluate...

Background: Normalized truncated navicular height (NTNH) is a non-invasive, easy to perform, and simple clinical measure of static foot posture. However, its sensitivity and specificity in evaluation of the static foot posture in children have not been investigated yet. Objective: To investigate the intra-rater reliability, sensitivity, and spec...

Background: There is a growing interest concerning the understanding of and rehabilitation of the sagittal configuration of the cervical spine as a clinical outcome. However, the literature on the topic specific to conservative treatment outcomes of patients with chronic myofascial cervical pain syndrome (CMCPS) has not adequately addressed the re...

Background Reliability of clinical measures of static foot posture has been widely debated. However, validity of these measures has not been fully established especially in a pediatric population. The purpose of the study was to investigate reliability and validity of normalized truncated navicular height (NTNH) in assessment of static foot posture...

Objective: To investigate the reliability of normalised truncated navicular height (NTNH) as a clinical measure of static foot posture in children. Methods: A cross-sectional study of a random sample of 300 school-aged children 6–12 years with mean ± SD of (9.44 ± 1.76) years. Two raters independently recoded the NTNH for each participant. Intrarat...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of Low Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound (LIPUS) on marginal bone loss and osseointegration of dental implant using Cone Beam CT (CBCT) image analysis, torque wrench and Resonance Frequency Analysis (RFA) techniques. The study sample comprised of 22 patients; who were divided randomly into two equal groups...

Objective The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of balance training using the Biodex balance system and a conventional balance training programme on balance score and on gross motor skills of children with spastic diplegia. Methods A randomized controlled study was conducted on 48 spastic diplegic children with cerebral palsy...

Background: Practitioners need more sensitive measures to quantify reaching movement for judgement of the treatment effects and reflecting the degrees of motor impairment in upper extremities. Objective: The purposes of this study were to differentiate between spastic and normal reaching using three-dimensional (3D) motion analysis and to quantify...

To investigate the effect of foot wedge and carrying weighted bag on loading the paretic lower limb in children with hemiparetic CP. Cross-sectional study. Participants: A convenient sample of 18 ambulant children with spastic hemiparetic CP was evaluated. Fifteen matched normal children acted as a control group. Using two calibrated scales, measur...

Background and purposeHand function is necessary for activities of daily life. Hemiplegic cerebral palsied children who constitute a large portion in our country show evidence of defective hand function. So, it is worth finding a solution for such a problem. This study was conducted to determine the combined effects of myofeedback and isokinetic tr...

To explore the influences of purposeful activities versus rote exercises on pain, range of motion and hand function in children with hand burn. Thirty patients had superficial and deep partial and full-thickness burns, including hand and wrist with less than 25% total body surface area (TBSA) was included in this study. The patients were randomly a...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on modulation of muscle tone, the gross manual dexterity and inspiratory capacity in spastic hemiparetic cerebral palsied children. Forty children with spastic Hemiparetic cerebral palsy ranged in age from 4 to 7 years participated in the study. The sample was divi...