Guidelines recommend exercise as first line care for the treatment of chronic low back pain. A Cochrane review summarised in a PEDro blog in November 2021 concluded that exercise therapy most likely reduces pain when …
Low back pain is the leading cause of disability globally and results in enormous direct healthcare and lost productivity costs. Despite a large amount of research, there remains uncertainty about the best treatment approach for …
Transparent, accurate and comprehensive reporting of systematic reviews helps clinicians and policy-makers to implement the review findings into practice. This can be facilitated by helping the authors of systematic reviews to clearly report why the …
Admission to hospital for treatment of many health conditions is associated with impaired mobility and a period of bed rest that can lead to reduced physical activity. These low levels of physical activity observed during …
COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020. Physiotherapy consensus guidelines were quickly developed to guide acute respiratory management for those with COVID-19. When managing a new disease like …
Prehabilitation aims to promote physical and psychological health and address modifiable risk factors prior to surgery to improve postoperative outcomes. There are conflicting results regarding the effectiveness of prehabilitation in patients with cancer awaiting surgery, …
Football (soccer) is a popular sport world-wide. Despite the health benefits of playing football, non-contact musculoskeletal injuries (eg, hamstring strain) are relatively common. Exercise-based programs have been developed to prevent injury, but previous evaluations have …
Musculoskeletal pain is prevalent, disabling and associated with high socioeconomic costs. In the 2000’s there was a paradigm shift in using education to treat musculoskeletal pain. Traditional education strategies focused on anatomy, biomechanics and the …
Pelvic floor dysfunction and incontinence are common after pregnancy and childbirth. In the first 3 months after childbirth about one in three women have urinary incontinence and up to one in ten have faecal incontinence. …
Proven treatments for low back pain only provide modest overall benefits. Matching people to treatments that are likely to be most effective for them may improve clinical outcomes and makes better use of healthcare resources. …
