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 important implications for clinical practice. We hope that facilitating discussion of this research will help physiotherapists to implement the results into their clinical practice.

Journal clubs are a great way to translate research into practice. In March 2020 PEDro published a blog that outlined some key features of running a successful journal club. Since then, PEDro has run five journal clubs which have been well received. The idea is for physiotherapists to use resources provided by PEDro as the basis for running a local journal club with their peers.

This is the first PEDro World-Wide Journal Club conducted in Portuguese and is about exercise-based programs to prevent non-contact musculoskeletal injuries in football (soccer). We will be discussing the randomised controlled trial by Lemes et al. We encourage physiotherapists with an interest in musculoskeletal and sports physiotherapy to participate in a five-step process:

1. invite your colleagues to be involved
2. read the article
3. watch (or listen to) the video summarising the exercise-based programs for preventing non-contact musculoskeletal injuries in football (soccer) review.

4. watch (or listen to) the video of the panel discussing the exercise-based programs for preventing non-contact musculoskeletal injuries in football (soccer) review.

5. meet with your colleagues to have your own discussion about the exercise-based programs for preventing non-contact musculoskeletal injuries in football (soccer) review.

If you are interested in being involved, please visit the PEDro web-site for more information.