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 12 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 PEDro World-Wide Journal Club is about ballistic resistance training for people with traumatic brain injury. We will be discussing the randomised controlled trial by Williams et al (2022). We encourage physiotherapists with an interest in neurology and neurotrauma physiotherapy to participate in a five-step process:

1. invite your colleagues to be involved

2. read the article Williams, G., et al. (2022). “”Ballistic resistance training has a similar or better effect on mobility than non-ballistic exercise rehabilitation in people with a traumatic brain injury: a randomised trial.”” Journal of Physiotherapy 68(4): 262-268.

3. watch (or listen to) the video summarising ballistic resistance training on mobility compared to non-ballistic exercise rehabilitation in people with a traumatic brain injury.

4. watch (or listen to) the video of the panel discussing ballistic resistance training on mobility compared to non-ballistic exercise rehabilitation in people with a traumatic brain injury.

5. meet with your colleagues to have your own discussion about ballistic resistance training on mobility compared to non-ballistic exercise rehabilitation in people with a traumatic brain injury.

If you are interested in being involved, please visit the PEDro website for more information

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