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The PREVENT trial: a trial of 202 adults with acute low back pain showed that adding intensive patient education to first-line care was no better at improving pain outcomes than a placebo
Acute low back pain is extremely common, most adults will experience at least one episode in their lifetime. Back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Various psychosocial risk…
PEDro is no longer posting to Google+
UPDATE | Last year Google announced the shutdown of Google+ for consumers due to its low usage and the challenges they had in creating and maintaining a platform that met…
Who used PEDro in 2018?
An analysis of the contents of PEDro in the 8 January 2019 update is now available on the PEDro statistics page. The number of reports of trials has continued to…
#MyPTArticleOfTheMonth – what is Lorimer Moseley reading?
Lorimer Moseley is a Pain Scientist with a background in physiotherapy who is the University of South Australia’s Inaugural Chair in Physiotherapy and Professor of Clinical Neurosciences. He chairs the…
#MyPTArticleOfTheMonth resource – PEDro’s Evidence in your inbox
One way of keeping up-to-date with high quality clinical research relevant to your area of practice is to scan journals. However, with over 3,900 journals publishing physiotherapy research, traditional ways…
PEDro update (8 January 2019)
PEDro contains 42,289 records. In the 8 January 2019 update you will find: 33,118 reports of randomised controlled trials (32,286 of these trials have confirmed ratings of methodological quality using…
Systematic review found that telephone-based interventions for people with osteoarthritis or spinal pain are effective when compared to usual care
This systematic review assessed whether real-time telehealth interventions reduce pain intensity and disability in people with osteoarthritis of the knee and hip or spinal (back or neck) pain compared to…
Trial found physiotherapy is as effective as arthroscopic menisectomy for knee pain with non-obstructive meniscal tears
Summary: Arthroscopic partial meniscectomy is among the most frequently performed procedures in orthopaedic surgery. This trial is consistent with current consensus that surgery should not be first line treatment in…
Anne Moseley talks about PEDro for PT Pintcast
Jimmy McKay from PT Pintcast recently interviewed Anne Moseley about PEDro. In the podcast, Jimmy and Anne discuss some of the features of PEDro that make it a useful tool…
Take the #MyPTArticleOfTheMonth challenge in 2019
An essential element of evidence-based practice is reading articles reporting the results of high-quality clinical research. Unfortunately, only one-third of clinicians report reading journal articles – and those who do,…
