Evidence practice
How current research reaches the treatment plan — and the writing that comes out of it.
The method
Index the literature, don't recall it
Rehabilitation evidence moves faster than memory. Studies are read, indexed and linked by condition, intervention, outcome measure and population, so the relevant trial is retrievable at the moment a plan is being written rather than half-remembered from a lecture.
Structure it as a graph, not a folder
Papers connect to each other: a return-to-sport criterion cites a strength threshold, which cites a testing protocol. Holding those links explicitly makes the chain of reasoning behind a decision visible — and makes it possible to see when newer evidence breaks a link.
Tie every plan to a measure
FIM, Berg Balance Scale, Timed Up and Go, GMFCS and GMFM, range of motion, manual muscle testing, pain scoring and functional testing. A plan without a baseline cannot be shown to have worked, and cannot be corrected while there is still time to correct it.
Write the programme for after discharge
Every patient leaves with a programme they can carry out without a therapist present, and criteria that tell them when to progress. Family and carers are trained in safe handling and the home programme wherever the condition calls for it.
A literature base built by hand
Maintained personally, searchable, and used with AI research tooling to ground assessment and treatment planning. It is not a library of bookmarks — it is structured so that a question asked during a session can be answered from evidence before the session ends.
- indexed clinical studies
- 1,000+
Writing
Explanations of the questions patients and athletes ask most, written from the evidence base and from clinical training.
Scope of practice
Physiotherapist, Exercise Therapist or Personal Trainer: Who Does What
Physiotherapists, exercise physiologists and personal trainers are trained, regulated and permitted to do different things. Here is how their scopes actually differ, and how to tell which one you are booking.
8 min
Outcome measures
What Standardised Outcome Measures Actually Tell You
FIM, the Berg Balance Scale, Timed Up and Go, GMFCS and GMFM are named, published tools with a scored result. Here is what each one measures, and why re-measuring it is the point.
9 min
Return to sport
Returning to Sport After Injury: How Criteria-Based Progression Works
International consensus is that a return-to-sport date should be a measured decision, not a calendar one. Here is what the published evidence says criteria-based progression actually means.
8 min
Water exercise
Water Exercise, Balance and Gait: What the Research Shows
Immersion changes how much weight a joint carries, how quickly a loss of balance turns into a fall, and how much resistance a movement meets. Here is what the published trials report, and how certain their authors say that evidence is.
9 min
Training in heat
Training in Dubai's Heat: Joints, Hydration and Load
Dubai's summer does not damage a joint directly. It changes how much work the body does to stay cool, how fast fluid leaves, and how early a session stops being the session that was planned. That is a load-management problem.
9 min
Yoga and movement
Where Yoga Helps in Rehabilitation, and Where It Does Not
The trials put yoga roughly level with other active exercise for chronic low back pain, and show a measurable gain in balance and mobility in older adults. They also record more adverse events than doing nothing. All three findings belong in the same answer.
9 min
These articles are general information about rehabilitation, not medical advice, and they do not create a therapeutic relationship. For a problem you are living with, see a licensed clinician in person.