Robin Roots

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Robin
Roots
K.

About me

MSc Thesis: Understanding Rural Rehabilitation Practice: Perspectives of Occupational Therapists and Physical Therapists in British Columbia

Member type
Practising A
CPA Number
22571
Phone
250-640-9413
Public email
Education/Credentials
McMaster University; University of British Columbia
Special areas of practice
Joint replacement rehabilitation
Orthopaedics (muscles/joints)
Research
Publications

Roots RK, Smith L, Brown H, Bainbridge L, Li L.  “All those things you never thought”: Perspectives from occupational therapists practicing in rural British Columbia. Occupational Therapy Now 2014; 16(6):26-28

Roots RK, Brown H, Bainbridge L, Li LC. Rural rehabilitation practice: perspectives from occupational therapists and physiotherapists in BC. Rural and Remote Health. 2014; 14:2506.

Roots RK, Li LC. Recruitment and retention of occupational therapists and physiotherapists in rural regions: a meta-synthesis. BMC Health Services Research 2013, 13:59.

Roots RK, Li LC, Bainbridge L, Brown H. Specializing as generalists: how do rehabilitation therapists practice in rural areas? Arthritis & Rheumatism.2010;62:S857-858. Poster presentation. American College of Rheumatology Conference. November 2010. Atlanta, GE.

Roots RK, Li LC, Bainbridge L, Brown H. Interpretive Description: An innovative approach to understanding the complexity of rural rehabilitation practice. Conference proceedings. 15th Qualitative Health Research Conference. October 2009. Vancouver BC.

Roots RK. So what’s so different about rural rehabilitation practice and what does it offer me as a student? How a rural placement experience influenced my career clinically and academically. Dispatches: the Newsletter of the International Division of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association. 2009;2(7):17-20.