Do the clinical competencies of musculoskeletal outpatient physiotherapists improve after they have participated in a bespoke in-service education programme designed around individual and service continuing professional development needs?
Providing a structured and bespoke in-service education programme over an academic year may help to improve the rating of clinical competencies and give participants the perception that their clinical practice has changed because of the programme.
Gestational hormone alterations during pregnancy may affect ASP function as a lipogenic factor. Increased plasma ASP levels at late gestation and their strong correlation with parameters reflecting very low-density lipoprotein accumulation are suggestive of ASP resistance, which may further contribute to the hyperlipidemic state, shifting energy in the form of TGs to the rapidly growing fetus.