Background and Purpose. Assessment of the quality of randomized controlled trials (RCTs)
is common practice in systematic reviews. However, the reliability of data obtained with most …

OBJECTIVES: To determine the effects of exercise on falls prevention in older people and
establish whether particular trial characteristics or components of exercise programs are …

POPE, RP, RD HERBERT, JD KIRWAN, and BJ GRAHAM. A randomized trial of preexercise
stretching for prevention of lower-limb injury. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 271…

Objectives To describe the course of acute low back pain and sciatica and to identify clinically
important prognostic factors for these conditions. Design Systematic review. Data sources …

Objective Previous meta-analyses have found that exercise prevents falls in older people.
This study aimed to test whether this effect is still present when new trials are added, and it …

Evidence-based practice involves the use of evidence from systematic reviews and randomised
controlled trials, but the extent of this evidence in physiotherapy has not previously been …

Objectives : We studied the impact of noncardiac comorbidity on potentially preventable
hospitalizations and mortality in elderly patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). Background : …

Sex-based differences in the form of English compliments and in the frequencies of various
compliment response types are discussed. Based on a corpus of 1,062 compliment events, …

Objective To estimate the one year prognosis and identify prognostic factors in cases of recent
onset low back pain managed in primary care. Design Cohort study with one year follow-…

Background: Although low-back pain is a highly prevalent condition, its clinical course remains
uncertain. Our main objective was to systematically review the literature on the clinical …