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'Avoidance Preening', Displacement Behavior and Co-Dependency in Professional Team Sport: When Wants Become More Important Than Needs
Int J Sports Phys Ther. 2022 Aug 1;17(5):945-949. eCollection 2022.ABSTRACTAn athlete's body plays an important role in their performance and well-being. However, game-relevant skills are better determinants of success, compared with physical fitness, in technically-driven team sports. In the professional era, over utilization of resources, in pursuit of physical optimization, can detract from time spent on priorities. Athletes' non-strategic, time-demanding focus on physical preparation/treatments resembles avian 'avoidance preening', whereby stressful situations trigger birds to excessively preen in place of more product...
Source: Physical Therapy - August 11, 2022 Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Blake D McLean Donnie S Strack David T Martin Source Type: research

Compliance With Hand-Washing Guidelines Among Visitors From the Community to Acute Care Settings: A Scoping Review
Conclusions: Visitor compliance with hand hygiene guidelines is highly variable but may be amenable to public health interventions. Higher quality studies focused on health outcomes are necessary to generate best practice recommendations related to hand hygiene.
Source: The Journal of Acute Care Physical Therapy - January 1, 2018 Category: Physiotherapy Tags: Original Study Source Type: research