Advances in Physiotherapy is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...

 medical journal

Medical journal

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 covering the science, art, identity, and legitimacy of the physiotherapy

Physical therapy

Physical therapy , often abbreviated PT, is a health care profession. Physical therapy is concerned with identifying and maximizing quality of life and movement potential within the spheres of promotion, prevention, diagnosis, treatment/intervention,and rehabilitation...

 profession and discipline, within a broad health and social care context.

Core topics

• Analysing and debating research in the light of its consequences on physiotherapy
• Contrasting different research perspectives on essential phenomena and questioning traditional paradigms
• Challenging and developing theoretical models
• Evaluating and criticizing interventions
• Discussing educational and professional issues of physiotherapy

Indexing and abstracting

The journal is indexed in Allied and Alternative Medicine, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature

CINAHL

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 (CINAHL), Excerpta Medica

Excerpta Medica

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/EMBASE, PEDro

Pedro

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, and Swemed.

Publisher

Advances in Physiotherapy is published by Informa Healthcare, a trading division in Informa plc, a United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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-based publisher.

Editor-in-Chief

The editor in chief

Editor in chief

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 is Gunnevi Sundelin. She currently holds a professorship at Umeå University

Umeå University

Umeå University is a university in Umeå in the mid-northern region of Sweden. The university was founded in 1965 and is the fifth oldest within Sweden's present borders....

, where she is the Head of the Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation.

External links

• Advances in Physiotherapy homepage of Advances in Physiotherapy
• Informa Healthcare homepage of Informa Healthcare which publishes Advances in Physiotherapy