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

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

A you can see from our new cover page, Europa Medicophysica (EMP) is gradually changing. When it was founded in 1964, the journal received its Latin name, while the subtitle in French, English, and Italian was “The European Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation” (Figure 1) to define it as the Official Journal of the European Federation of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (EFPMR).1...

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 traumatic brain injury. Current guidelines and beyond.

Electrodiagnostic Evaluation of cervical root involvement among patients presenting with radicular pain: Short Communication

Cervical spine pain is one of the most common problems of the spine and upper limbs, which can be axial or radicular. The present study aimed to electrodiagnostically evaluate cervical root involvement among patients presenting with radicular pain.  The population was selected using simple random sampling from patients complaining of cervical radicular pain and unilateral or bilateral upper ext...