Europa Medicophysica, the European and Mediterranean evidence-based clinical Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine.

Short history of Europa Medicophysica: 41 years of contributions to the scientific roots of the Specialty of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine.

E Medicophysica is born in 1964, and his history follows, and sometimes contributes to drive that of the Specialty of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM) in Europe and Italy. The second name was “The European Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation” (Figure 1), being since the beginnig the Official Journal of the European Federation of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, as wel...

A systematic review of physical and rehabilitation medicine topics as developed by the Cochrane Collaboration.

The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the Cochrane Collaboration, its development over the years, and its usefulness for physical and rehabilitation medicine specialists. After introducing the Cochrane Collaboration, we systematically analyzed all titles of the reviews in each of the 50 review groups. For ''Rehabilitation,'' we included not only exercise and physical therapy, but also...

The osteoporotic spine: rehabilitation management.

T valuable paper published by Lin et al. in this issue of Europa Medicophysica,1 that highlights a very interesting topic for rehabilitation practice, such as vertebral fractures, needs some deepening. In fact, the rehabilitation management of vertebral fractures, that is called non-medical management (and this is much better than the usual terminology of conservative management, or even not-su...

Rehabilitation of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: results of exercises and bracing from a series of clinical studies. Europa Medicophysica-SIMFER 2007 Award Winner.

AIM Rehabilitation of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) requires a careful choice from among the possible treatments, such as bracing and exercises, according to the patient's needs. According to the literature, there is little evidence regarding the efficacy of these rehabilitation instruments. During the past few years, a full series of studies has been carried out to investigate their ef...

Rehabilitation of traumatic brain injury. Current guidelines and beyond.