Lou James (MNZM) is a New Zealand physiotherapist with expertise in oncology. The number of people surviving or living longer after a cancer diagnosis is increasing and is projected to rise to 21.7 million by …
Many physiotherapists have taken up the #MyPTArticleOfTheMonth challenge and have been sharing their reading with the global physiotherapy community. Most posts have been articles reporting the results of randomised controlled trials. There have also been …
We are pleased to announce that PEDro has just achieved a new milestone for the amount of evidence. There are now 44,000+ reports of trials, reviews and guidelines indexed on PEDro.
PEDro contains 44,309 records. In the 5 August 2019 update you will find: 34,619 reports of randomised controlled trials (33,782 of these trials have confirmed ratings of methodological quality using the PEDro scale) 9,004 reports …
The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the effectiveness of scoliosis-specific exercises compared with other non-surgical interventions for adolescent with idiopathic scoliosis. Studies were eligible if they were randomised controlled trials evaluating scoliosis-specific …
The PEDro team presented a paper evaluating the impact of “Evidence in your inbox” at the 13th International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine World Congress in Kobe, Japan in June 2019. The abstract for …
A recently published meta-epidemiological study has evaluated if allocation concealment and intention-to-treat analysis influence the size of treatment effects of randomised controlled trials evaluating physiotherapy interventions for people with low back pain. Five databases (PubMed, …
PEDro will celebrate its 20th anniversary in October 2019. To mark this important milestone we want to identify 5 of the most important randomised controlled trials in physiotherapy published in the years 2014-2019. High-quality randomised …
Associate Professor Anne Moseley was recently interviewed at the World Confederation for Physical Therapy 2019 Congress in Geneva about the value of PEDro. At the Congress she received the prestigious Mildred Elson award for her …
Dr Kate Scrivener is a clinician, researcher and educator in neurological physiotherapy in Sydney, Australia. Kate has expertise in rehabilitation after stroke, with a particular interest in using exercise and technology to empower people with …
