Systematic review found that resistance training improves walking speed among people with multiple sclerosis.
Individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) often have muscular weakness, fatigue, ataxia and balance impairments. This can often negatively contribute to their walking ability, especially walking speed. This systematic review aimed to investigate the effects of lower limb resistance training on…
Uma revisão sistemática constatou que o treinamento resistido melhora a velocidade de caminhada em pessoas com esclerose múltipla.
Indivíduos com esclerose múltipla (EM) frequentemente apresentam fraqueza muscular, fadiga, ataxia e comprometimento do equilíbrio. Isso pode, muitas vezes, contribuir negativamente para sua capacidade de caminhar, especialmente para a velocidade. Esta revisão sistemática teve como objetivo investigar os efeitos do…
Next PEDro and DiTA updates are on 4 August 2025.
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As próximas atualizações do PEDro e DiTA serão na 4 de agosto de 2025.
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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…
The Physiotherapy Institutions of Mexico City
Prior to the turn of the 19th century individuals with lesser physical capacity from congenital diseases or acquired from work accidents, war wounds, etc., were commonly excluded from work and social environments because they were considered incapable of contributing to…