Amy discusses whether a hippotherapy simulator (therapeutic simulated horseback riding) is effective therapy for children with Cerebral Palsy.
The Lancet has recently published a series of papers looking at problems with waste and inefficiency in research, with recommendations for how these could be overcome.
The number one cause of disability and reason for absentee with industrialized workers is due to low back pain (USA). Hayley discusses possible interventions…
Long before beginning my studies as a physical therapy student, I was acutely aware of how much a problem back pain could be…
Low back pain can be frustrating, debilitating, and just plain difficult to treat. Take a look at a research article that examines the effectiveness of manual therapy and active exercise for treatment of low back pain.
Take a look at what an enzymatic de-bridging agent has to offer!
Evidence-based medicine has a large variety of different sub-fields. Let’s begin our journey towards one of them – evidence-based physical examination.
PubMed Health – a good place to start your search for health-based evidence
David writes about the UK Government’s recent plans to introduce health checks.
Reporting and discussing clinical trials clearly and accurately can be challenging, both for journalists, and also for students. Ruth Francis has compiled 11 top tips to make it easier.
Conducting trials where the trialled therapeutic must be commenced urgently raises specific practical and ethical problems. Here I discuss a recent New England Journal of Medicine paper looking at the use of intracranial pressure monitoring for severe traumatic brain injury as an example of how these issues may affect a trial’s utility and how this can be managed.
Want to find out how to evaluate a randomised controlled trial? This is the perfect resource for you, brought to you by CASP Tools.
Want to find out more about treating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? Here, the PACE trial for CFS is evaluated using the CASP Tools for Randomised Controlled Trials.
Can probiotics prevent diarrhoea? A new Cochrane review says they can. This blog also walks through a few of the features of Cochrane reviews.
There are four key steps in EBM and the resources on the website are linked to these. Asking the right question Searching for the evidence Appraising the evidence Acting on the evidence These steps are followed by a fifth: Evaluating your practice. 1. Asking the right question To find the answer to a problem you need to start with a question. Getting the question right can be as important as getting the answer right. If you ask an inappropriate question