Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques

There is no clear consensus in the literature concerning the terminology, aetiology and treatment for pain in the anterior part of the knee. The term ‘anterior knee pain’ is suggested to encompass all pain-related problems. By excluding anterior knee pain due to intra-articular pathology, peripatellar tendinitis or bursitis, plica syndromes, Sinding Larsen’s disease,Osgood Schlatter’s disease, neuromas and other rarely occurring pathologies, it is suggested that remaining patients with a clinical presentation of anterior knee pain could be diagnosed with patello-femoral pain syndrome (PFPS). Three major contributing factors of PFPS are discussed: (i) malalignment of the lower extremity and/or the patella; (ii) muscular imbalance of the lower extremity; and (iii) overactivity.

Patellofemoral pain syndrome: a review of current issues.

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Charts were reviewed on patients at the Salt Lake Knee and Sports Medicine Clinic who had had a lateral release of the patella. Patients were divided into two groups. Group I contained patients who were entirely satisfied with the procedure, and Group II included patients who were complete failures (defined as a need for further surgical procedures). In Group I, 74 patients were included in the subjective followup. Forty of the 74 patients also had an objective followup, including roentgenograms and a physical examination. Group II contained 43 patients. Results indicated that the most predictable criterion for success was a negative passive patellar tilt. Secondary criteria included a medial and lateral patellar glide of two quadrants or less and a normal tubercle-sulcus angle at 90 degrees of flexion. Patients had less predictable results after an isolated lateral release with a positive (greater than 5 degrees) passive patellar tilt and a three quadrant or greater medial and lateral patellar glide or an abnormal tubercle-sulcus angle at 90 degrees of flexion.

Lateral release of the patella: Indications and contraindications:

The third edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Welfare provides new and more established ways to approach community building and organising, from collaborating with communities on assessment and issue selection to using the power of coalition building, media advocacy, and social media to enhance the effectiveness of such work. With a strong emphasis on cultural relevance and humility, this collection offers a wealth of case studies in areas ranging from childhood obesity to immigrant worker rights to health care reform. A "tool kit" of appendixes includes guidelines for assessing coalition effectiveness, exercises for critical reflection on our own power and privilege, and training tools such as "policy bingo." From former organiser and now President Barack Obama to academics and professionals in the fields of public health, social work, urban planning, and community psychology, the book offers a comprehensive vision and on-the-ground examples of the many ways community building and organising can help us address some of the most intractable health and social problems of our times.

Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Welfare

This article contextualizes the contemporary phenomenon of university-community partnership initiatives. Because changes in the university must always be understood in context, recent efforts to build and strengthen relationships between institutions of higher education and communities must be situated in the broader social sites that produce them. To that end the article surveys the university-community intersect through an historical lens which emphasizes the relationship between the larger political-economy and civic engagement efforts. Subsequently, types of contemporary initiatives are broadly and selectively discussed. Lastly, challenges to both universities and communi-ties embodied in the current initiatives are posed.

Understanding Contemporary University-Community Connections

What do community organisations and organisers do, and what should they do? For the past thirty years politicians, academics, advocates, and activists have heralded community as a site and strategy for social change. In contrast, Contesting Community paints a more critical picture of community work which, according to the authors-in both theory and practice-has amounted to less than the sum of its parts. Their comparative study of efforts in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada describes and analyses the limits and potential of this work. Covering dozens of groups, including ACORN, Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue Committee, and the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal, and discussing alternative models, this book is at once historical and contemporary, global and local. Contesting Community addresses one of the vital issues of our day-the role and meaning of community in people's lives and in the larger political economy.

Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing

Part 1: History Matters: Settlements and Not-for-Profit Social Service Financing 2. Privatization, Contracting, and Not-for-Profits Since 1975Part 2: Contracting and Corporatized Social Services: Voices from the Field 3. Fiscal Instability: Rewriting the Contract4. Infrastructural Decline5. The Pressures and Fissures of Social Service Work6. Scarce Resources: Rationing and Narrowing the Content of Social Services7. Navigating the Current Fiscal Turbulence While Struggling to Chart a Social Services FuturePart 3: Rethinking the Purposes and Practices of Not-for-Profit Social Services 8. From Corporatized Contracting to Community BuildingAppendix: Methodology of the Qualitative Inquiry

Settlement Houses Under Siege: The Struggle to Sustain Community Organizations in New York City

Conservative Treatment of Patellofemoral Pain

The growth of community-based not-for-profits in the Anglo-American world has been mirrored by weakened political demands and a diminished set of critical political perspectives. Nevertheless, significant efforts in Anglo-American communities still exist and provide examples of community-based organizing that have not lost sight of the goals of social and economic justice. This article explores practice examples that demonstrate the existence and possibilities of politically oppositional community organizing in the current difficult and complex political economy. These examples present effective, if imperfect, community initiatives. The three discussed - The Fifth Avenue Committee, ACORN, and Immigrant Worker Centres - offer alternatives to contemporary forms of community practice moderated by economic globalization and the policies of neo-liberalism. The article ends by drawing lessons from these experiences and their potential in the contemporary political economy.

What's left in the community? Oppositional politics in contemporary practice

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