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.
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Partners
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Association partners
- World Physiotherapy
- Afghan Association for Physical Therapy
- Australian Physiotherapy Association
- Physio Austria
- Axxon
- Cambodian Physical Therapy Association
- Canadian Physiotherapy Association
- UNIFY ČR
- Fiji Physiotherapy Association
- Suomen Fysioterapeutit
- Physio Deutschland
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Physiotherapiewissenschaft
- Asociacion Nacional de Fisioterapistas de Guatemala
- Hong Kong Physiotherapy Association
- Félag Sjúkraþjálfara
- Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists
- Società Italiana Fisioterapia
- Latvijas Fizioterapeitu Asociācija
- Lietuvos Kineziterapeutų Draugija
- Association Luxembourgeoise des Kinésithérapeutes
- Macau Physical Therapists Association
- Komora Fizioterapeuta Crne Gore
- Myanmar Physiotherapy Association
- Nepal Physiotherapy Association
- Koninklijk Nederlands Genootschap voor Fysiotherapie
- Physiotherapy New Zealand
- Norsk Fysioterapeutforbund
- Pakistan Physical Therapy Association
- The Polish Chamber of Physiotherapists
- Associação Portuguesa de Fisioterapeutas
- Singapore Physiotherapy Association
- Združenje Fizioterapevtov Slovenije
- Asociación Española de Fisioterapeutas
- Sri Lanka Society of Physiotherapy
- Fysioterapeuterna
- Physioswiss
- Taiwan Physical Therapy Association
- Physical Therapy Association of Thailand
- Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- American Physical Therapy Association
Collaborators
The British Journal of Sports Medicine has published five editorials about PEDro (Amorim et al 2020, Kamper et al 2015, Kamper et al 2014, Elkins et al 2013, and Sherrington et al 2010) and included a summary of a systematic review indexed on PEDro in most issues in 2011-2018.
PEDro has also received assistance from a large number of volunteers who have given freely of their time and skills. The following people rated trials for PEDro during 2020: Alessandro Pagano, Amy Sman, Ana Salles, Andrea Gardoni, Anne Jahn, Antonella Saponara, Athilas Braga, Benjamin Bowtell, Bernadette Petzel, Bernadine Teng, Carlos Sanchez Medina, Cecilia Bagnoli, Ciara Harris, Clare Walsh, Claudia Sarno, Claudio Cordani, Connie Jensen, Connor Gleadhill, Cristiano Baldan, Crystian Oliveira, David Fernandez Hernando, Diego Poddighe, Elena Ierardi, Elisabetta Bravini, Elisa Ravizzotti, Emre Ilhan, Eurose Majadas, Eva Uršej, Fereshteh Pourakzemi, Frank Aerts, Gabriel Farhat, Gerardo Candoni, Gessica Tondini, Giovanni Ferreira, Gul Oznur Karabicak, Harry Truong, Henry Pak, Hironobu Uzawa, Hopin Lee, Hubert Makaruk, Ilkim Karakaya, Irene Scotto, Ivan Jurak, Janio Luiz Correia Junior, Jean-Philippe Regnaux, Jessica Dhillon, Jiaqi Zhang, Jiayen Wong, Joelle Andre-Vert, Jon Rivero, Joshua Zadro, Juliana Fernandes, Julio Fernandes de Jesus, Junior Vitorino Fandim, Kamil Adamiec, Kathrin Fiedler, Kylie Turton, Laura Crowe-Owen, Laura Daly, Laura Blanco, Leonardo Piano, Letizia Micca, Lorenzo Vannucci, Maciej Plaszewski, Mai Kenawy, Manuela Besomi, Marco Bordino, Marco Bravi, Marco Bisozzi, Maria Letizia Zuccotti, Maria Alva Staufert, Maribeth Gelisanga, Matteo Gaucci, Matteo Locatelli, Mia Boye Nyvang, Michelle Liu, Mykola Romanyshyn, Nicola Ferri, Nicolas Ferrara, Paoline Li, Paolo Caneparo, Pedro Andreo, Peng Cai, Raffaele Barera, Riccardo Guarise, Robyn Porep, Rodrigo Cappato, Roger Andrey, Ryan Carroll, Sacha Bossina, Scott Wilson, Simon Olivotto, So Nishimura, Stacey Cubitt, Stefan Liebsch, Stefano Berrone, Stephen Chan, Sukhjit Singh, Tamer Sabet, Tim Oostenbroek, Tory Toogood, Uwe Eggerickx, Vladyslav Talalaiev, Weronika Krzepkowska, Yaroslav Sybiriankin, Ye Tao Xu, Zoe Russell.
The following people kindly translated the PEDro web pages:
- Simplified Chinese: Mandy Lau (PEDro employee) translated the original pages. Yen-Ning Lin (PEDro employee) 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).
- 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) and Jean-Philippe Regnaux (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique, France) 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 and Daniele Sarti.
- Japanese: Kiyokazu Akasaka (School of Physical Therapy, Saitama Medical University, Japan) translated the original pages. Takahiro Miki (Sapporo Maruyama Orthopedic Hospital, Japan) translated the additional pages.
- Korean: 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).
- 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.
Staff and contractors
PEDro is hosted by Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA).
We contract the following information technology companies to produce PEDro:
- Andrew Duncan from Databuzz is responsible for our database.
- Cocoon Creative upgraded the PEDro web-site.
- Phil Paige from ShortRadius is responsible for the interactive search pages.
- Rose Cox from Purple Prodigy produced the PEDro training site.
