Being involved in soccer in Rwanda at both national and international level exposes soccer players to the risk of injury. The aim of this study was to identify common soccer injuries among the 1st and 2nd division soccer teams in Rwanda and to establish the need for physiotherapy intervention. This deals with the first two stages of injury prevention, which included identification and description of the extent of the problem and the identification of factors and mechanisms that play a part in the occurrence of injuries.

This thesis is autobiographical in nature and follows my life experiences relating to the development and subsequent removal of a large epidermoid brain tumour. The resultant impairment of my faculties, and its effect on my vocational, emotional and spiritual life is outlined. / My main means of expressing my journey from illness to partial recovery and self-renewal is through art-making. This art-making (a form of art self-therapy) is recorded in my paintings; included in my thesis as my main means of expression taking the place of the printed word, as my capacity to write and type is somewhat impaired. / The main value of my thesis relates to recounting the experience, for others of the renewal of my life, following a major illness. Most brain tumours are fatal or severely limit the ability of a person to communicate, or limit their intellectual functioning. I was fortunate in that I could still communicate through using the visual arts; an area where I had retained my competencies. / My thesis then, is aimed at increasing the understanding of illness, recovery and renewal for those in the helping and medical professions; also to give hope of life renewal through art expression and art therapy in cases where verbal and written means of communication are limited. / The field of my thesis is adult education and personal learning through experience. This learning has focussed on using creative painting experiences as a way of self-healing. / Those paintings that were significant in my recovery and renewal are exhibited in the Art Gallery section of this thesis. By viewing these artworks, you can share in, and understand my journey through illness, recovery and renewal through art-making, self-therapy. / Thesis (MEducation)--University of South Australia, 2005.

Thesis (M.App.Sc. in Physiotherapy)--University of South Australia, 1997

Following cervical or upper thoracic level spinal cord injury (SCI), motor, sensory and autonomic systems are disrupted. One form of this autonomic dysfunction is the condition autonomic dysreflexia (AD), which is characterised by episodes of high blood pressure in response to afferent input from regions below the injury level. An animal model of autonomic dysreflexia, the T4 transected rat, was used in this thesis to gain insight into the cardiovascular and temperature components of the disorder, possible peripheral mechanisms and interventions to prevent its development. Chapter 2 of the thesis includes the charaterisation of a T4 transection rat model of spinal cord injury. This characterisation includes confirmation of decreased baseline mean arterial pressure (MAP, 71 down from 117 mmHg) and elevated heart rate (HR, 431 bpm from 366 bpm) for 6 weeks post injury (p.i.). Documentation of the development of AD found that hypertensive responses were fully developed (+20 mmHg) by 4 weeks p.i. Further, during episodes of AD at Weeks 4 and 5 p.i., tail surface temperatures decreased significantly (mid-tail, -1.7oC), indicative of extensive vasoconstriction. Comparison of vascular responses of intact and SCI animals to adrenergic agonists (phenylephrine, PHE and methoxamine, METH) following ganglionic blockade in vivo found that SCI animals experienced prolonged vasoconstriction in blood vessels above and below injury level in response to PHE but not METH. Possible mechanisms of this change included decreased neuronal reuptake of PHE (METH is not a substrate for neuronal reuptake). The presence of prolonged vasoconstriction in blood vessels throughout the body, not just regions below injury level, suggests a widespread mechanism for the change, such as the decreased basal MAP, norepinephrine levels or neural activity present following injury. Thus, it was hypothesised that increased activity from an early stage post injury may prevent the peripheral adaptation and perhaps hinder development of AD. For this, the common rehabilitation technique, treadmill training, was used. Surprisingly, rather than preventing AD, the training actually accelerated its development, producing exaggerated hypertensive responses to colorectal distension (CRD) at Weeks 3 and 4 post-injury (Week 4, Trained: +38.5 ?? 1.5 mmHg; Sedentary: 23.4 ?? 3.1mmHg). Comparison of vascular responses of both groups to PHE injection found no significant difference indicating that the enhanced responses were not a result of peripheral vascular changes. Investigation of the central morphology following SCI, made via immunohistochemical processing of the post-mortem spinal cords, found that Treadmill Trained SCI animals had elevated calcitonin gene related peptide (CGRP) immunoreactivity within lamina III/IV of lumbar segments, compared to intact cords. It is possible that this finding indicates afferent sprouting that may have accelerated the development of AD in Treadmill Trained animals. The results within this thesis highlight the importance of awareness and examination of autonomic function in SCI patients, especially those undergoing rehabilitative training.

Bibliography: leaves 193-200. / ix, 200 leaves ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Argues that pain or discomfort so widely experienced in "normal" populations cannot, in all cases, have a pathological basis and that, therefore, there must be a non pathological cause. As well, a possible aetiology is suggested for other activity-related conditions which have not yet received generally accepted explanations such as Fibromyalgia. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Surgery, RAH, 1996

Thesis (M.App.Sc. in Physiotherapy)--University of South Australia, 1997

Thesis (M.S.)--Georgia Southern University, 2007. / "A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education." Under the direction of Daniel R. Czech. ETD. Electronic version approved: May 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-62) and appendices.

Dissertation (MHSc--Health Science) -- AUT University, 2007. / Primary supervisor: Duncan Reid. Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (ix, 60 leaves ; 30 cm.) in North Shore Campus Theses Collection (T 615.82 POL)

Thesis (LL. M.)--University of Toronto, 2004. / Adviser: Colleen Flood.

Thesis (LL. M.)--Judge Advocate General's School, U.S. Army, 1968. / "April 1968." Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 63). Also issued in microfiche.