Physiotherapy (APES1000)

Dry needling procedure for a number of back muscles. This is a thorough and concise summary of everything you need to know when dry needling muscles of the back including, anatomy, pain referral, signs and symptoms, patient and trigger point examination, needling procedure and other important considerations. I recommend printing and binding the pack as an A5 book for easy use. I tried to summarise each muscle onto one page. More muscles to follow. Enjoy!

For us visual learners! This document has a table summary of the ankle ligament special tests. it includes pictures of how the test is conducted as well as describes what you are testing for, the procedure and psositive findings. I have also included images of the ankle ligament anatomy for your reference.

This essay achieved an A+ in my final year of studies. It covers the levels of injury prevention (including examples of each), risk factors to injury , effective injury prevention principles, loading principles and return to play protocol, as well as other important and often over-looked principles.

This summary provides a concise table of the SIJ provocation tests with images to illustrate the conduction of such tests. It also explains the movement of the sacrum which is essential in understanding the effect SI joint lesions. Furthermore it provides the symptoms and differential diagnoses not to be confused with SIJ dysfunction.

APES1000 (INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL SCIENCES) is your first venture into anatomy and biology when studying Physiotherapy or any medical degree at Wits. I have personally compiled every detail of this half-year course into a short word document so that it is more easily accessible to study, as the course notes supplied by the university are very vague and all over the place. These notes allowed me to study the entire syllabus in a short span of time and summarizes the most important aspects neede...