Abstract
Despite being a young profession, physiotherapy has established its role in most developed countries worldwide. The increasing number of randomised clinical trials and systematic reviews testing the impact of different physiotherapy interventions supports much of this achievement. This large volume of publications is exemplified in the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro), which has indexed more than 48,500 trials, reviews and evaluation guidelines for physiotherapy interventions by September 20201 . This provides strong grounds to put evidence-based physiotherapy into practice. The use of scientific knowledge has contributed largely to the advance of physiotherapy, both showing the effectiveness of novel and classic practices, as well as suggesting that certain procedures do not contribute to or even harm the patientsâ physical or functional condition
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