Robert Moran

Robert Moran
Waikato Institute of Technology | Wintec

Doctor of Philosophy

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Background New Zealand (NZ) has nearly 14,000 km of coastline and a surfing population of approximately 315,000 surfers. Given its popularity, surfing has a high frequency of injury claims, however, there remains a lack of data on traumatic surfing-related injuries from large population studies. The primary purpose of this study was to examine trau...
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Objectives Gradual-onset injuries associated with surfing have not previously been closely examined. This study investigated the duration, mechanisms, body locations and types of gradual-onset injuries in a sample of New Zealand surfers. Design Retrospective, cross-sectional online survey. Methods Self-identified surfers reported gradual-onset su...
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Background: There is potential clinical utility in tailoring patients' pain management based on behavioural tendencies. Previous work demonstrates a link between behavioural approach/inhibition and pain experience. Objectives: To investigate the relationship of pain intensity and duration with behavioural activation and inhibition tendencies and...
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Background Breathing retraining and manual therapy (MT), delivered independently or together, influence autonomic activity, and improve symptoms in patients with chronic conditions. This study evaluated the effects of breathing retraining and osteopathic MT on cardiac autonomic measures and breathing symptoms during spontaneous breathing in healthy...
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INTRODUCTIONExternal auditory exostosis (EAE) is a benign, irreversible bony outgrowth that arises from the temporal bone. EAE projects into the external ear canal, potentially causing recurrent otitis externa and conductive hearing loss. AIMTo determine lifetime prevalence of EAE in New Zealand (NZ) surfers. METHODS This study used an online natio...
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Background: Recent work has indicated that acute experimental pain affects left–right discrimination latency. This phenomenon highlights an effect of pain on the cortex that may have significant clinical importance in the form of pain state assessment. However, to date only limited study has further qualified this effect. A more thorough understand...
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Background Several studies have investigated subgroups of patients with low back pain (LBP) most likely to benefit from Pilates or movement control exercises, but none have determined prognostic factors specifically for chronic LBP. This prospective cohort study aimed to determine predictors of change in disability in people with chronic LBP follow...
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Background Exercise-based interventions are commonly utilised within many healthcare modalities, although their role in New Zealand (NZ) osteopathy is unclear. Objectives Investigate osteopaths' attitudes and practices of exercise consultation, in the context of general health and wellbeing (GH) and specific medical conditions (SMC); and identify...
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Background: Healthcare practitioner beliefs influence advice and management provided to patients with back pain. Several instruments measuring practitioner beliefs have been developed but psychometric properties for some have not been investigated. Aims: To investigate internal consistency, test-retest reliability and convergent validity of the...
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Aim: This paper aims to systematically review studies investigating the strength of association between FMS composite scores and subsequent risk of injury, taking into account both methodological quality and clinical and methodological diversity. Design: Systematic review with meta-analysis. Data sources: A systematic search of electronic data...
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Background: Breathing retraining (BRT) is commonly used during osteopathic consultations as an adjunct to osteopathic manual therapy (OMT) for assessment and treatment of breathing-related dysfunction. Although BRT and OMT are widely recognised within osteopathy and other allied health disciplines, there are few descriptions of clinically applicabl...
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Dysfunctional breathing is characterised by an abnormal breathing pattern leading to respiratory symptoms. The 25-item Self Evaluation of Breathing Questionnaire (SEBQ) has been developed to measure breathing-related symptoms and their severity but lacks thorough evaluation. To determine reproducibility, internal consistency and predictors of SEBQ...
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Cervical artery dysfunction is a reported potential risk associated with manual therapy applied to the cervical and cervicothoracic spine. While a variety of physical examination tests have been advocated to screen patients who may be at risk of adverse events during or after manipulation, their clinical utility is limited. This paper provides an o...
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To explore clinical changes following a novel manual mobilisation technique, 24 participants who experienced ‘moderate’ to ‘severe’ chronic low back pain were recruited from new patients attending a suburban osteopathy clinic. The intervention was a previously undescribed side-lying mobilisation technique targeting the lumbosacral spine (median of...
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Several physical assessment protocols to identify intrinsic risk factors for injury aetiology related to movement quality have been described. The Functional Movement Screen (FMS) is a standardised, field-expedient test battery intended to assess movement quality and has been used clinically in preparticipation screening and in sports injury resear...
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Background: The clinical reasoning strategies employed in healthcare have been well established in a wide range of health professions. Currently, there is little literature pertaining to the diagnostic process of osteopaths and the clinical reasoning strategies utilised in osteopathy. Aim: To investigate the processes of clinical reasoning utilised...
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Individuals with low back pain (LBP) commonly present with an impaired flexion-relaxation (FR) response, characterised as continued lumbar muscle activation at maximal voluntary flexion. The aim of the present investigation was to explore the effectiveness of a surface electromyographic assisted stretching (SEMGAS) programme in improving FR. Nine v...
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The aim of this project was to investigate the reliability of a new 11-item quality appraisal tool for studies of diagnostic reliability (QAREL). The tool was tested on studies reporting the reliability of any physical examination procedure. The reliability of physical examination is a challenging area to study given the complex testing procedures,...
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1 the most common presenting complaint is of discomfort or pain. Indeed, as Penney reminds us in the Masterclass published in this issue (p. 42), pain is the most common reason for self medication, for entry in the healthcare system, and for presentation to osteopaths. Penney provides a succinct review of the biopsychosocial model and presents an a...
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Trigger points are promoted as an important cause of musculoskeletal pain. There is no accepted reference standard for the diagnosis of trigger points, and data on the reliability of physical examination for trigger points are conflicting. To systematically review the literature on the reliability of physical examination for the diagnosis of trigge...
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Background: Trigger points are promoted as an important cause Of musculoskeletal pain. There is no accepted reference standard for the diagnosis of trigger points, and data on the reliability of physical examination for trigger points are conflicting. Objectives: To systematically review the literature on the reliability of physical examination for...
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Background and objectives: Postural observation is commonly used by practitioners as a clinical tool. Little is known about the reliability and validity of such observations. The aim of this study was to establish the consistency of posture in standing and seated positions, over a one-week period. Methods: A convenience sample of 11 healthy males (...
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Background and objectivesResearch conducted in the field of cranial manipulation has primarily focused on inter- and intra-reliability detecting both the Cranial Rhythmic Impulse and cranial dysfunction. Limited literature exists regarding the effects of cranial manipulation on health outcomes, and little has been done to investigate the physiologi...
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Premanipulative screening tests aimed at assessing the risk of vascular accident resulting from cervical manipulation are widely advocated by professional bodies, consensus groups, and other experts. Evidence-based medicine provides a framework for clinical reasoning that integrates evidence derived from literature review, together with clinical ex...
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A range of health care practitioners use cranial techniques. Palpation of a cranial rhythmic impulse (CRI) is a fundamental clinical skill used in diagnosis and treatment with these techniques. There has been little research establishing the reliability of CRI rate palpation. This study aimed to establish the intraexaminer and interexaminer reliabi...

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