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We are celebrating an exciting milestone \u2013 27 years of the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro)!<\/p>\n

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For 27 years, PEDro has been helping physiotherapists, students, educators and researchers around the world find and use the best available evidence to inform physiotherapy practice.<\/p>\n

From an idea to a global evidence database<\/strong>
\nPEDro\u2019s story began in the 1990s when PEDro\u2019s Founders, Prof Rob Herbert, Prof Chris Maher, Prof Cathie Sherrington and Dr Anne Mosely, began to discuss how they could take their collection of clinical trials from a university class they taught, and distribute it to inform clinical decision-making beyond the classroom Together with support and seed funding from the Australian Physiotherapy Association and the Motor Accidents Authority of NSW, they transformed this idea into a new resource for the physiotherapy profession, developing the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro).<\/p>\n

Launched in 1999, PEDro has grown into world\u2019s largest curated database of high-quality evidence evaluating the effectiveness of physiotherapy interventions. Today, the database contains more than 70,000 reports of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines, freely available in 17 languages, and accessed in 200+ countries every 10 seconds every day. By bringing quality-rated physiotherapy evidence together in one searchable database, PEDro makes it easier for people around the world to rapidly find research that can inform clinical decisions, education and further research.<\/p>\n

Watch this video with the PEDro Founders as they reflected on PEDro for the database\u2019s 25th anniversary<\/a> or listen to the conversation on PEDroCast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More than a database<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the past 27 years, PEDro has continued to develop resources that not only help people to find evidence, but also how to understand it. Resources available through PEDro include:<\/p>\n