Joseph Onuwa Umunnah

Availability and Utilization of Personal Protective Equipment by Nigerian Physiotherapists during COVID-19 Pandemic

Uchenna Prosper Okonkwo, Joseph Onuwa Umunnah, Ebere Yvonne Ihegihu, Fatai Adesina Maruf, Emmanuel Chiebuka Okoye, Chukwuebuka Olisaemeka Okeke & Chisom Godswill Chigbo · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2021

Introduction: Physiotherapists are exposed to contracting infectious diseases because of the level of contact they have with patients in the course of performing their statutory clinical duties. Objective: The major objective of the study is to determine the availability and util...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2021/v19i230304

A 3-Year Physiotherapy Management of a Case of Spinal Poliomyelitis Referred at Three Months Post Paralysis

Uchenna Prosper Okonkwo, Joseph Onuwa Umunnah & Chima Collins Ihegihu · Asian Journal of Pediatric Research · 2019

Background: Poliomyelitis is known to bring about huge complications that foist debilitating disabilities on a patient with poliomyelitis. Most post-polio survivors live with disabilities throughout a lifetime with an attendant social and economic consequence. Objective: Based on...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajpr/2019/v2i130095

A Randomized Placebo Controlled Study to Determine the Efficacy of Oral Diclofenac Sodium in the Treatment of Symptomatic Osteoarthritis of the Knee in Nnewi, South Eastern Nigeria

Chima Collins Ihegihu, Ebere Yvonne Ihegihu, Afamefuna Victor Egwuownu & Joseph Onuwa Umunnah · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2018

Background: Diclofenac sodium is a non-selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) that is widely used therapeutically for its analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis (KOA) but no scientific study has been carried out at Nnewi...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/AJMAH/2018/40535