• FOOT DROP AND FATIGABILITY IN PEOPLE WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS 

  Andreopoulou, Georgia (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2019)

  People with Multiple Sclerosis (pwMS) often experience walking impairments such as foot drop which can lead to trip and falls. Foot drop can be either transient and is often induced by exercise (fatigability) in pwMS whose ...

• ENHANCING KINEMATIC SHOULDER FUNCTION EVALUATION THROUGH A VALID, SIMPLE AND CLINICALLY APPLICABLE SCORE 

  Pichonnaz, Claude (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2019)

  Introduction Controversies surrounding Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) and the cumbersome-nature of movement analysis-based (MAB) methods for shoulder function evaluation make the exploration of alternatives ...

• QUANTILE REGRESSION AS A METHODOLOGY FOR UNDERPINNING PROPORTIONATE UNIVERSALISM 

  Rush, Robert (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2019)

  In the social sciences, and beyond, we are often interested in the impact of factors on some outcome. These research questions of interest are traditionally addressed with linear regression, which informs on those factors ...

• FRAILTY, CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION AND RISK OF FALLING AMONGST PATIENTS WITH STAGE 5 CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE ON HAEMODIALYSIS 

  Zanotto, Tobia (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2019)

  This PhD thesis explores the risk of falling of stage 5 chronic kidney disease (CKD-5) patients receiving haemodialysis (HD) therapy. Previous research has suggested that multiple risk factors such as older age, comorbidities, ...

• Pre-surgery exercise-conditioning (P–SEC) in patients waiting for Total Knee Arthroplasty 

  Risso, Anna Maria (2018)

  Using a randomised controlled trial to assess efficacy, a ‘novel’ pre-surgical exerciseconditioning (P–SEC) programme was investigated in this thesis addressing the knowledge gap in the literature regarding pre-surgical ...

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