Help PEDro Keep Delivering World-Class Physiotherapy Evidence!
For 25 years, PEDro has been the go-to resource for physiotherapists worldwide, offering free access to the latest research and evidence that improve patient outcomes. But with the growing volume of physiotherapy evidence, we need your support to continue providing…
Atualização do PEDro (7 de julho de 2025)
O PEDro possui 65600 registros. Nesta atualização você encontrará: 49180 ensaios clínicos (48077 com avaliação da qualidade metodológica pela escala PEDro confirmada) 15594 revisões sistemáticas 826 diretrizes de prática clínica. Acesse Evidência no seu e-mail para as mais recentes diretrizes de…
PEDro update (7 July 2025)
PEDro contains 65,600 records. In this update you will find: 49,180 reports of randomised controlled trials (48,077 of these trials have confirmed ratings of methodological quality using the PEDro scale) 15,594 reports of systematic reviews, and 826 reports of evidence-based…
Artrite Juvenil em Julho de 2025
Artrite juvenil é um termo guarda-chuva utilizado para descrever condições reumáticas em populações pediátricas. A artrite juvenil é uma condição auto-imune que afeta 1 em cada 1000 crianças mundialmente. A forma mais comum é a artrite juvenil idiopática, mas os…
Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month 2025
This month is Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month. Juvenile arthritis is an umbrella term used for paediatric rheumatic disease, it is an autoimmune condition affecting 1 in 1000 children worldwide. The most common type is juvenile idiopathic arthritis, but the term…
Dr Koch’s Emasculation and the Birth of Physiotherapy
The formation of the Society of Trained Masseuses (STM) by four British nurses in 1894 is often opined as the beginning of the physiotherapy profession (Ottoson, 2015). In support, physiotherapy historian and critical thinker Dave Nicholls (2016) said on the…
Executive Half Year Report – June 2025
The Executive Committee met on three occasions by Zoom teleconference in the first half of 2025. During this period we farewelled Ryan McGrath (Australia) and welcomed new member Ken Miller (USA). The current Executive Committee membership consists of Glenn Ruscoe,…
American Physical Therapy Before the War
The commonly accepted premise of the origins of the physical therapy profession in the United States is that it began in response to the First World War (Hansson & Ottosson, 2015). This understanding has likely arisen from the hegemonic American…
Dubious Electrotherapy
The word physiotherapy was used by many different practitioners in the first part of the twentieth century; including French physicians, American electrotherapeutists and later British radiologists as medical radiation was first grouped with electrotherapy. The word physiotherapy was also also…