Research Aricles (Sport, Recreation and Exercise Science)

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    Exercise therapy education enriched through interprofessional
    (2021) Yu, Tak Wing; Achmat, Ghaleelullah; Kock, Luzaan; Smithdorf, Gareth
    Biokineticist and physiotherapy professional scopes of practice are explicit that they are both exercise therapists, meaning that they use exercise as a treatment modality. Despite these well-defined scopes of the profession by the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA), there are examples of infringements where one profession is accused of conducting work supposedly the sole domain of the other.1 This tension related to overlapping professional is present globally
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    Prevalence of coronary artery disease risk factors among male fire-fighters in Cape Town, South Africa
    (bioRxiv, 2021) Achmat, Ghaleelullah; November, Rucia V; Leach, Lloyd L
    Cardiovascular disease is a major cause of morbidity and on-duty mortality among fire-fighters. This study investigated the prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD) risk factors among firefighters in Cape Town, South Africa.A quantitative, cross-sectional and correlational study design was used. A convenient sample of 219 male fire-fighters with mean age 37.85±9.80 years was recruited. Eight major CAD risk factors were assessed using standard techniques. SPSS (ver. 23) was used with the Pearson correlation and Kruskall-Wallis H test with the MannWhitney test post hoc and a Bonferroni correction. The significance level set at p<0.05.