Olive Millard – An Extraordinary Life
It is rare to find physiotherapists writing about their experiences (Nicholls, 2021), which makes Olive Millard’s (1952) autobiography Under My Thumb so important. A summary of Millard’s professional career is written by Goldstone (2024) and is further summarised here: Becoming…
Ukraine’s Short History of Physical Therapy
Before the restoration of Ukraine’s Independence in 1991, rehabilitation occurred within the Soviet paradigm, which set itself in opposition to Western ideology – not out of rational consideration, but out of the need to be different. Some of the key…
Agradecemos aos moderadores do nosso grupo de avaliadores da PEDro no Facebook
A PEDro conta com o apoio de uma comunidade global de voluntários dedicados que, generosamente, oferecem seu tempo e conhecimento especializado para tornar mais acessíveis evidências de alta qualidade em fisioterapia. Nossa rede de avaliadores da PEDro abrange mais de…
Thank you to our PEDro Rater Facebook Group Moderators
PEDro is supported by a global community of dedicated volunteers who generously give their time and expertise to help make high-quality physiotherapy evidence more accessible. Our PEDro rater network spans more than 26 countries and language groups and works collectively…
The Making of World Physiotherapy
On the 8th September 1951, delegates representing seventeen national physiotherapy associations met in Copenhagen, Denmark to establish the World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT); now World Physiotherapy. Seventy-five years later it represents more than 600,000 physiotherapists through 129 member organisations,…
PEDro update (7 September 2026)
PEDro contains 70,384 records. In this update you will find: 52,061 reports of randomised controlled trials (50,044 of these trials have confirmed ratings of methodological quality using the PEDro scale) 17,462 reports of systematic reviews, and 861 reports of evidence-based…
Dia Mundial da Fisioterapia 2026: Fisioterapia, atividade física e saúde cardiovascular
Em 8 de setembro, a comunidade global de fisioterapia se une para celebrar o Dia Mundial da Fisioterapia e reconhecer as importantes contribuições que os fisioterapeutas oferecem à saúde e ao bem-estar de pessoas em todo o mundo. A World…