Muscle quality maintenance or improvement is important for older adults to preserve or enhance physical function and metabolic health. There is conflicting evidence on whether exercise interventions improve morphological muscle quality (structure) and neuromuscular muscle …
Last month we summarised the systematic review by Belk et al. The review concluded that surgical stabilisation for a first-time anterior shoulder dislocation reduces the risk of recurrent instability and need for future surgery compared …
Lack of time is the most common barrier to evidence-based physiotherapy. Many factors contribute to this, including a high workload, competing priorities, efficiency in all 5 steps of evidence-based physiotherapy (Ask, Acquire, Appraise, Apply, Assess), …
We are pleased to announce that PEDro has just achieved a new milestone. There are now 55,000+ reports of trials, reviews and guidelines indexed on PEDro.
DiTA contains 2,359 records. In the 6 June 2022 update you will find: 2,111 reports of primary studies, and 248 reports of systematic reviews. For the latest primary studies and systematic reviews evaluating diagnostic tests …
Thank you to Suomen Fysioterapeutit, Taiwan Physical Therapy Association, Società Italiana di Fisioterapia, Félag Sjúkraþjálfara, Hong Kong Physiotherapy Association, Singapore Physiotherapy Association, Deutscher Verband für Physiotherapie, Fysioterapeuterna, Norsk Fysioterapeutforbund, Physio Austria, UNIFY ČR, and Deutsche …
PEDro contains 55,280 records. In the 6 June 2022 update you will find: 42,272 Reports of randomised controlled trials (41,423 of these trials have confirmed ratings of methodological quality using the PEDro scale) 12,293 reports …
The next PEDro and DiTA updates are on Monday 6 June 2022.
Anterior shoulder dislocations are among the most common shoulder injuries in adolescent athletes and often occur after acute trauma. Despite multiple studies comparing rates of recurrent instability after surgical stabilisation and non-operative sling immobilisation for …
Last month we summarised the systematic review by Kristensen MGH et al. The review concluded that neuromuscular electrical stimulation improved activities of daily living but had little impact on functional motor performance after stroke compared …
