Evidence-Based Physiotherapy: Prospects and Challenges
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Rehabilitation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 February 2026) | Viewed by 2633
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pulmonary rehabilitation; COPD; asthma; phantom phenomena; peripheral artery disease; evidence-based practice
Interests: evidence-based practice; quality of health care; meta-research; practice guidelines; person-centered care
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Dear Colleagues,
It is now over thirty years since the term “evidence-based medicine” was coined. Soon afterwards, ideas around evidence-based physiotherapy practice, EBP, were introduced, and since then, key milestones have been achieved, such as World Physiotherapy recognizing evidence-based practice as being among the core physiotherapy competences. The movement and its principles, as well as clinical practice, have been evolving and have faced many challenges and critiques. The strength and certainty of evidence remain key to success, but so does the implementation of science and knowledge translation processes, as their methods and frameworks have emerged as key person- and system-centered approaches. Evidence-based, systematically developed clinical practice guidelines have influenced clinical practice. EBP has become a core aspect of clinical practice and research, but barriers, obstacles, and uncertainties remain, both in the implementation process and in the evidence base itself. Proposals such as evidence-informed practice and evidence-guided practice have also influenced clinical practice.
For this Special Issue, we invite authors to submit papers focusing on clinical settings and clinical practice and discussing a wide range of issues linked to evidence-based physiotherapy.
Dr. Roman Nowobilski
Dr. Maciej Płaszewski
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- evidence-based practice
- physiotherapy
- critique
- certainty of evidence
- clinical practice guidelines
- implementa-tion
- clinical settings
- clinical practice
- clinical processing
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