The clinical reasoning of musculoskeletal physiotherapists in relation to the assessment of vertebrobasilar insufficiency: A qualitative study

Manual Therapy

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 394-399

  Sweeney, Aoife ^a   Doody, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cervical manipulation; Clinical reasoning; Vertebrobasilar insufficiency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL POSITIONAL TESTING; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INJURY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SPINE DISEASE; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY; VISUAL DISORDER; DECISION MAKING; INTERVIEW; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL THERAPY (SPECIALTY); PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PROBLEM SOLVING; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY; PHYSICAL THERAPY SPECIALTY;

EID: 77953808865     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2010.03.005     Document Type: Article

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