Acute low back pain is extremely common, most adults will experience at least one episode in their lifetime. Back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Various psychosocial risk factors have been identified to …
UPDATE | Last year Google announced the shutdown of Google+ for consumers due to its low usage and the challenges they had in creating and maintaining a platform that met the needs of their consumers. …
An analysis of the contents of PEDro in the 8 January 2019 update is now available on the PEDro statistics page. The number of reports of trials has continued to expand at an exponential rate. …
Lorimer Moseley is a Pain Scientist with a background in physiotherapy who is the University of South Australia’s Inaugural Chair in Physiotherapy and Professor of Clinical Neurosciences. He chairs the PainAdelaide Stakeholders’ Consortium and leads …
One way of keeping up-to-date with high quality clinical research relevant to your area of practice is to scan journals. However, with over 3,900 journals publishing physiotherapy research, traditional ways of keeping up-to-date can be …
PEDro contains 42,289 records. In the 8 January 2019 update you will find: 33,118 reports of randomised controlled trials (32,286 of these trials have confirmed ratings of methodological quality using the PEDro scale) 8,499 reports …
This systematic review assessed whether real-time telehealth interventions reduce pain intensity and disability in people with osteoarthritis of the knee and hip or spinal (back or neck) pain compared to usual care or face-to-face interventions. …
Summary: Arthroscopic partial meniscectomy is among the most frequently performed procedures in orthopaedic surgery. This trial is consistent with current consensus that surgery should not be first line treatment in middle-aged and older people with …
Jimmy McKay from PT Pintcast recently interviewed Anne Moseley about PEDro. In the podcast, Jimmy and Anne discuss some of the features of PEDro that make it a useful tool for busy clinicians. They also …
An essential element of evidence-based practice is reading articles reporting the results of high-quality clinical research. Unfortunately, only one-third of clinicians report reading journal articles – and those who do, read on an irregular basis. …
