PEDro is produced on a not-for-profit basis with financial support from industry partners, granting bodies, and donations from organisations and individuals. Help PEDro grow by making a donation or contacting us to discuss a partnership.
Since its inception, PEDro has been supported by several organisations and many individuals. Current supporters are listed below. The PEDro Partnership expresses its gratitude to these organisations and individuals but retains editorial independence from them.
Gold Foundation Partner
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Silver Partner
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Bronze partners
- American Physical Therapy Association
- Physioswiss
- Koninklijk Nederlands Genootschap voor Fysiotherapie
- Physio Deutschland
- Physiotherapy New Zealand
- Physio Austria
- Ordem dos Fisioterapeutas
Association partners
- World Physiotherapy
- Axxon
- Associação Brasileira de Fisioterapia Traumato-Ortopédica e Fisioterapia em Reumatologia
- UNIFY ČR
- Suomen Fysioterapeutit
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Physiotherapiewissenschaft
- Panhellenic Physiotherapists’ Association
- Hong Kong Physiotherapy Association
- Félag Sjúkraþjálfara
- Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists
- Società Italiana Fisioterapia
- Latvijas Fizioterapeitu Asociācija
- Lietuvos Kineziterapeutų Draugija
- Macau Physical Therapists Association
- Singapore Physiotherapy Association
- Združenje Fizioterapevtov Slovenije
- Asociación Española de Fisioterapeutas
- Fysioterapeuterna
- Taiwan Physical Therapy Association
- International Federation of Sports Physical Therapy
Business partners
Collaborators
PEDro has also received assistance from a large number of volunteers who have given freely of their time and skills.
Translators
The following people kindly translated the PEDro web pages:
- Simplified Chinese: Mandy Lau (PEDro employee) translated the original pages. Yen-Ning Lin (PEDro employee), Qi Lu (Beijing United Family Rehabilitation Hospital, China), Zhao Siya (Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, The University of Sydney, Australia), Zhang Zixin (Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, The University of Sydney, Australia) translated the additional pages.
- Traditional Chinese: Hua-Fang (Lily) Liao (Taiwan Physical Therapy Association, Taiwan) and Mandy Lau (PEDro employee) translated the original pages. Yen-Ning Lin (PEDro employee) translated the additional pages.
- Portuguese: Leonardo Costa, Tiê Parma Yamato and Bruno Tirotti Saragiotto (Universidade Cidade de São Paulo, Brazil) translated the original pages. Mariana Nascimento Leite and Junior Vitorino Fandim (Universidade Cidade de São Paulo, Brazil) translated the additional pages, Portuguese newsletters and social media posts.
- German: Erwin Scherfer and Stefan Hegenscheidt (Physio-Akademie gGmbH des ZVK, Germany) translated the original pages. Cordula Braun and Kerstin Luedtke (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Physiotherapiewissenschaft, Germany) translated the additional pages.
- French: Pierre Trudelle and Joëlle André-Vert (Société Française de Physiothérapie, France) translated the original pages. Pierre Trudelle (Société Française de Physiothérapie, France), Jean-Philippe Regnaux(Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique, France) and Elodie Louvion translated the additional pages.
- Spanish: Antonia Gómez Conesa, Fernando Ramos Gómez and Carmen Suárez Serrano (Asociación Española de Fisioterapeutas, Spain).
- Italian: Roberto Iovine (Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale di Bologna, Italy), Francesco Gambino (Mount Gould Hospital, Plymouth UK), Silvia Terzi, Daniele Sarti, Leonardo Pellicciari (IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Italy, Società Italiana di Fisioterapia, Italy), Francesco Ferrarello (Azienda USL Toscana Centro, Italy), Michele Marelli (Università degli Studi del Molise, Italy), Matteo Paci (Azienda USL Toscana Centro, Italy, Società Italiana di Fisioterapia, Italy), Paolo Pillastrini (University of Bologna, Italy, Società Italiana di Fisioterapia, Italy)
- Japanese: Kiyokazu Akasaka (School of Physical Therapy, Saitama Medical University, Japan) translated the original pages. Takahiro Miki (Sapporo Maruyama Orthopedic Hospital, Japan), Tatsuya Hirase (Kanagawa University of Human Services, Japan), Hyuma Makizako (Kagoshima University, Japan), Naoya Hasegawa (Hokkaido University, Japan), Yoshiro Okubo (Neuroscience Research Australia) translated the additional pages.
- Korean: HyeonJoon Kim (Seoul Society for Korea Physical Therapist Association), Jooeun Song (PEDro employee and Discipline of Physiotherapy, University of Sydney, Australia).
- Turkish: İlkim Çıtak Karakaya (Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi, Turkey), Gül Öznur Karabıçak (Aydın Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi, Turkey) and Siddika Fatma Uygur (Uluslararası Kıbrıs Üniversitesi, Northern Cyprus). Betül Atmış (Aydın Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi, Turkey), Helin Merve Sapan (Aydın Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi, Turkey) assisted with translating additional pages.
- Tamil: Cynthia Swarnalatha Srikesavan (Centre for Rehabilitation Research in Oxford, UK), Thangamani Ramalingam, Srikesavan Sabapathy and Blessingta Vijay.
- Arabic: Ali Alshami and Sami Al-Mubireek (Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia).
- Ukrainian: Vladyslav Talalaiev, Petro Skobliak, Yaroslav Sybiriakin and Mykola Romanyshyn (Neurological Subgroup of the Ukrainian Association of Physical Therapy, Ukraine).
- Polish: Maciej Płaszewski (Department of Rehabilitation, Faculty in Biała Podlaska, The Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education, Warsaw, Poland), Zbigniew Wroński and Weronika Krzepkowska (The Polish Chamber of Physiotherapists, Poland). Translation supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland, within the project Societal Duty of Science, grant number SONP/SP/461408/2020.
- Romanian: OMTRO – Orthopedic Manual Therapy Romania Association, Romania.
- Greek: Yiannis Sotiralis and Konstantinos Sakellariou (Hellenic OMT.Edu, member of the MO Greece, IFOMPT, Greece). Maria Constantinou (Southern Cross University, Australia) assisted with translating additional pages.
PEDro Champions
The following people are university ‘PEDro Champions’ who ensure PEDro is taught in the curriculum as an evidence-based resource for students, clinicians, educators and researchers:
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- Australia: Dr Anita Amorim (The University of Sydney), Dr Peter Stubbs (The University of Technology Sydney), Professor Coralie English (University of Newcastle), Dr Kelly Gray (Macquarie University), Dr Steven Obst (Central Queensland University), Dr Christian Osadnik (Monash University), Professor Jennifer McGingley (Melbourne University), Associate Professor Maryam Zoghi (Federation University), Dr Roma Forbes (University of Queensland), Associate Professor Leanne Bisset (Griffith University), Associate Professor Kylie Johnston (University of South Australia), Associate Professor Michael Lee (University of New South Wales), Dr Ian Skinner (Charles Sturt University), Dr Ianthe Boden (University of Tasmania).
