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PEDro Top 5 Trials in 2014-2019 will be announced in November 2019
To celebrate PEDro’s 20th birthday we are identifying the 5 most important randomised controlled trials in physiotherapy published in the years 2014-2019. These trials will be added to the best…
PEDro celebrates 20 years of informing physiotherapy – thank you for your support
October 2019 marks PEDro’s 20th birthday! For 20 years PEDro has been providing physiotherapists around the world with easy access to high-quality clinical research so they can practice effectively and…
PEDro update (8 October 2019)
PEDro contains 44,926 records. In the 8 October 2019 update you will find: 35,088 reports of randomised controlled trials (34,278 of these trials have confirmed ratings of methodological quality using…
A reminder to guide practice using information from the full-text (not abstract) of research articles
Earlier this year a study assessed the accuracy of abstracts of articles reporting the results of randomised controlled trials evaluating physiotherapy interventions for low back pain. The main findings were…
Systematic review found that neuromuscular training reduces anterior cruciate ligament injury in female athletes
This systematic review compared neuromuscular training to any other intervention for preventing anterior cruciate injury in female athletes. Women were the focus of this evaluation because they are about three…
#MyPTArticleOfTheMonth – what is Cornelia Barth reading?
Cornelia A Barth is a physiotherapist with Master of Science qualifications from University College London. She spent the last decade in humanitarian missions in countries in Africa and the Middle…
#MyPTArticleOfTheMonth resource – the dance of the p-values
One of issues that has prompted statisticians and journals to call for the use of significance testing and hypothesis testing to be discontinued is that p-values are not replicable. That…
PEDro celebrates World Physical Therapy Day
World Physical Therapy Day was on 8 September, the theme for 2019 is chronic pain. Chronic pain is a significant global health burden. It is estimated that 1.5 billion people,…
PEDro update (2 September 2019)
PEDro contains 44,597 records. In the 2 September 2019 update you will find: 34,835 reports of randomised controlled trials (34,015 of these trials have confirmed ratings of methodological quality using…
Time to move from significance testing to estimation
A Research Note published in the latest issue of the Journal of Physiotherapy argues the case for moving away from significance tests and hypothesis tests in health research. The central…
