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what is known (and what is unknown)

what is effective (and what is less so).

An overview of clinical practice guidelines.

Why? Unveil an overview of the scientific literature on musculoskeletal rehabilitation.

Gain a comprehensive overview of recommendations from all clinical practice guidelines

Access information centralized from various sources, at anytime and from anywhere

Save time with our visual overview and summaries

Keep up to date with international recommendations from the last decade

Foster consistency and quality in healthcare by optimizing resource utilization

Stay at the front lines of knowledge on musculoskeletal rehabilitation

What? Synthesis of clinical practice guidelines in musculoskeletal rehabilitation.

Synthesis is possible through visual overview per pathology and summary of clinical practice guidelines.

The visual overview centralizes all the recommendations of the last 10 years' clinical practice guidelines for a given pathology.

One recommendation is one circle.

Green is recommended for all people with the pathology.

Yellow is recommended some people with the pathology.

Red is not recommended for all people with the pathology.

Grey means no recommendation can be formulated at this point.

The darker the color, the stronger the recommendation (respectively from a recommendation based on good practice, to weak, moderate, and strong).

Here is a portion of the visual overview for conservative care for lateral elbow tendinopathy

A summary is presented by clinical practice guideline and contain all recommendations for assessment and conservative care, duly classified by strength of recommendation.

Here is the summary of Singh et al., 2023

Singh et al., 2023

BESS patient care pathway: Tennis elbow

Authors: Harvinder Pal Singh, Adam C Watts, on behalf of the BESS LET Guideline Development Group

Developer: British Elbow & Shoulder Society

Publisher: Shoulder Elbow

Country: United Kingdom

Reference: Singh, H. P., & Watts, A. C. (2023). BESS patient care pathway: Tennis elbow. Shoulder & elbow, 15(4), 348–359. https://doi.org/10.1177/17585732231170793

Lateral elbow tendinopathy

For assessment

For a specific subgroup of people, clinicians should consider

Recommendation based on good practice

imaging only in case of diagnostic uncertainty

For conservative care

Clinicians should consider

Strong recommendation

physiotherapy

Recommendations based on good practice

orthotics
physiotherapy for people who have experienced symptoms for over twelve months, especially if they have not previously undergone physiotherapy
postoperative physiotherapy

Conflicting, insufficient or inconclusive evidence

dry needling

Clinicians should not consider

Strong recommendation

extracorporeal shockwave therapy

How much? All.

Our search strategy in databases and association sites is highly sensitive to identify all clinical practice guidelines.

What's more, the search strategy is re-launched every month. Overview counts:

2459

Clinical practice guidelines

108

Pathologies

Recommendations

For who? For those interested in musculoskeletal rehabilitation.

Clinical practice guidelines are selected when they are aimed at physical therapists (and often other healthcare professionals).

Physical therapists
Physiotherapy technicians
Occupational therapists
Chiropractors
Athletic therapists
Sports and family physicians
Researchers, professors and students in the field
And even more!

*Recommendations on pharmacological and invasive management are excluded as well as risk and prognostic factors.

How distributed? As good as possible.

Proportion of clinical practice guidelines per body region

Which pathologies? These.

Mild traumatic brain injury
Mild traumatic brain injury (pediatric)
Neck pain associated with headaches
Neck pain (acute)
Neck pain (subacute)
Neck pain (chronic)
Neck pain with neurologic signs
Whiplash-associated disorders
Cervical radiculopathy
Thoracic pain
Rotator cuff syndrome
Rotator cuff repair
Subacromial pain syndrome
Glenohumeral joint osteoarthritis
Shoulder arthroplasty
Adhesive capsulitis
Biceps brachii tendinosis, tears and ruptures
SLAP injuries
SLAP injury (postoperative)
Shoulder soft tissue injury
Shoulder sprain (grade I-II)
Lateral epicondylalgia
Elbow sprains
Olecranon bursitis
Elbow fractures

Elbow dislocations
Elbow contusion
Ulnar neuropathies
Distal radius fracture
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Carpal tunnel syndrome (postoperative)
Hand osteoarthritis
De Quervain's disease
Trigger finger
Postoperative Dupuytren disease
Guyon's canal syndrome
Postoperative Guyon's canal syndrome
Low back pain (acute)
Low back pain (subacute)
Low back pain (chronic)
Low back pain with sciatica (acute)
Low back pain with sciatica (subacute)
Low back pain with sciatica (chronic)
Lumbar radiculopathy (acute)
Lumbar radiculopathy (subacute)
Lumbar radiculopathy (chronic)
Low back pain (postoperative)
Nonarthritic hip joint pain
Hamstring strain injury
Hip osteoarthritis

Hip fracture (post-operative)
Hip arthroplasty
Total hip arthroplasty
Anterior cruciate ligament injury
Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
Patellofemoral pain
Knee osteoarthritis
Knee arthroplasty
Total knee arthroplasty
Knee meniscus tears
Knee meniscus tears (postoperative)
Knee articular cartilage lesions
Knee articular cartilage lesions (postoperative)
Patellar luxation
Recurrent patellar instability
Knee injury prevention
Knee sprain
MPFL surgery
Lateral ankle sprain
Syndesmotic ankle sprain
Chronic ankle instability
Achilles tendinopathy
Plantar fasciitis / Heel pain
Osteoarthritis