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Infographic for systematic review that found that early rehabilitation interventions reduce the likelihood of developing intensive care unit-acquired weakness in critically ill patients
Last month we summarised the Anekwe et al. The review concluded that early rehabilitation interventions (early mobilisation and/or neuromuscular electrical stimulation) reduce the likelihood of developing intensive care unit-acquired weakness…
PEDro and DiTA’s Evidence in your inbox helps you keep up-to-date with the latest research
One way of keeping up-to-date with high quality clinical research is to subscribe to an alert service. Randomised controlled trials indicate that, compared to usual information seeking, clinicians who subscribe…
PEDro celebrates World Continence Week 15-22 June 2020
15-22 June 2020 is World Continence Week, a global initiative run by the World Federation of Incontinence Patients with the support of the International Continence Society. Their goal us to…
Time to start thinking about physiotherapy beyond the COVID-19 pandemic
The easing of COVID-19 restrictions in some countries presents an opportunity to reflect on what we have learnt so far and how we can shape the future. Madeleine Albright, the…
PEDro World-Wide Journal Club on exercise for falls prevention in community-dwelling older people is now available
Welcome to the PEDro World-Wide Journal Club. The purpose of the PEDro World-Wide Journal Club is to encourage the global physiotherapy community to read trials, reviews and guidelines that have…
PEDro indexes 47,000+ reports
We are pleased to announce that PEDro has just achieved a new milestone for the amount of evidence. There are now 47,000+ reports of trials, reviews and guidelines indexed on…
PEDro update (3 June 2020)
PEDro contains 47,188 records. In the 3 June 2020 update you will find: 36,693 reports of randomised controlled trials (35,876 of these trials have confirmed ratings of methodological quality using…
DiTA update (1 June 2020)
DiTA contains 1,784 records. In the 1 June 2020 update you will find: 1,616 reports of primary studies, and 168 reports of systematic reviews. dita.org.au
Support for PEDro comes from the Deutscher Verband für Physiotherapie, Physioswiss, Associação Espanola de Fisioterapeutas, Taiwan Physical Therapy Association, Félag Sjúkraþjálfara, Macau Physical Therapists Association, and Cambodian Physical Therapy Association
We thank Deutscher Verband für Physiotherapie, Physioswiss, Associação Espanola de Fisioterapeutas, Taiwan Physical Therapy Association, Félag Sjúkraþjálfara, Macau Physical Therapists Association, and Cambodian Physical Therapy Association who have just renewed…
Systematic review found that early rehabilitation interventions reduce the likelihood of developing intensive care unit-acquired weakness in critically ill patients
Intensive care unit-acquired weakness is associated with significant impairments in body structure and function, activity limitation, and participation restriction. The aim of this review was to estimate the average effect…