Community ambulation: Influences on therapists and clients reasoning and decision making

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 30, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 1079-1087

  Corrigan, Rosemary ^a   McBurney, Helen ^b  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Client; Clinical reasoning barriers; Community ambulation; Decision making; Facilitators; Gait; Perceptions; Qualitative; Rural

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL BARRIER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMMUNITY BASED REHABILITATION; COMMUNITY LIVING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MEDLINE; MOBILIZATION; PHYSICAL MOBILITY; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RURAL POPULATION; WALKING AID;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARCHITECTURAL ACCESSIBILITY; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DECISION MAKING; DISABLED PERSONS; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; PHYSICAL THERAPY (SPECIALTY); RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; WALKING;

EID: 51849165267     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280701623158     Document Type: Review

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