Looking back at PEDro
With the World Physiotherapy Congress just around the corner, we took a look at our time at the 2023 World Physiotherapy Congress. In 2023, Sandra Gluppe won the PEDro award for best randomised controlled trial: ‘Curl-up exercises improve abdominal muscle…
Olhando para trás no PEDro
Com o Congresso Mundial de Fisioterapia chegando, demos uma olhada em nossa participação no Congresso Mundial de Fisioterapia de 2023. Em 2023, Sandra Gluppe ganhou o prêmio PEDro de melhor ensaio clínico randomizado: ‘Exercícios de flexão melhoram a força muscular…
My European Study Tour
In 1903 Australian early physiotherapist Josephine McCormick visited the principal physical culture institutes of Europe, in London, Paris, Vienna and Berlin. She also undertook courses of study with orthopaedists Professor Adolf Lorenz of Vienna, and Dr Bernard Roth of London….
Australia’s Proto-Physio
Physiotherapy emerged from nursing and hospitals in the United Kingdom, and later physical education and the military in the United States. In contrast, physiotherapy began in Australia in private practice. Predominantly British migrants brought their skills and knowledge in the…
Ballistic resistance training for traumatic brain injury – trial summary
In this episode, we explore a randomised trial led by Prof Gavin Williams on ballistic resistance training for people with traumatic brain injury. Prof Williams provides a summary of the trial in this episode, which is part of our PEDro…
The Mexican Rehabilitation Institute, 1960 – 1983
The Mexican Rehabilitation Institute was founded in 1960 in Mexico City; responding to the social need for comprehensive rehabilitation for people with motor disabilities. The Institute was established as a civil society, receiving contributions from the Mexican government, private companies,…
Job Market Pulse – 2025 – Year Ten Report
In 2015, UpDoc Media released its first ever salary and job market outlook report — which incidentally was the first concerted place for Physical Therapy to find its answer to… The post Job Market Pulse – 2025 – Year Ten…
Angel of Summerdown: Physiotherapy’s Forgotten Benefactor
This story begins with the unusually named Almeric Paget Massage Corps. Located in the United Kingdom, the Corps was formed to serve in the First World War. It was the forerunner of physiotherapy services for wounded servicemen; and its’ success…