For students and faculty
For Physiotherapy Students & Faculty
Everything here draws on the same clinical library used by practising clinicians, written for people still building their foundations. Resources follow World Physiotherapy entry-level education standards.
Six areas
From first principles to first placement
Sequenced the way a degree is actually experienced, rather than the way a syllabus is indexed.
Published now
13 resources: 12 evidence pages with 59 verified sources, plus one guidance page
Each one gives the exam answer and the honest answer side by side. Where they differ, the page says so and shows the study.
The PEDro Scale
You will be taught to score trials out of 10. The largest validity study says the total should not be calculated at all.
Goniometry
On a printed protractor it agrees to within a degree. On a human shoulder the limits of agreement widen to about 11 degrees.
How to Read a Randomised Trial
Which design flaws actually change a result, and why the answer depends almost entirely on whether your outcome is subjective.
Appraising a Systematic Review
AMSTAR 2 rates how well the review was done. It does not rate how certain the evidence is, and neither does ROBIS.
GRADE
It looks like a calculation and is a structured judgement. Experienced reviewers given the same evidence reached different grades.
Writing a Case Report
The first thing most physiotherapists publish, and the format with the weakest standards. None of 55 reports gave the patient perspective.
Manual Muscle Testing
One study reports almost perfect agreement, another significant disagreement, on the same scale. The difference is the statistic.
Palpation
The skill students most want to be good at, and where confidence and accuracy come apart most sharply.
OSCE Preparation
Examiner variance was more than four times examinee variance. That tells you exactly where to spend your preparation.
Pain Science Education
The most cautious meta-analysis found low clinical relevance for pain and a clinically relevant effect on kinesiophobia.
Careers and Pathways
What specialising commits you to, what higher study is for, and where the rules on registration actually come from.
Observational Gait Analysis
The total behaves well and the individual joints do not. Which number you quote depends on what you are claiming.
Clinical Placement
How placement assessment actually behaves as a measurement, and which competency moves your grade.
For faculty
Free to use in teaching
Every resource states its author, its reviewer, its evidence grade and its sources, which is precisely what makes it safe to hand to a cohort.
Material here may be used in teaching with attribution. Because each page carries its review date and next review date, you can see at a glance whether what you are about to teach is current — and pages past their review date say so rather than hiding it.
If you find an error, please report it. Our corrections policy commits us to acknowledging every report within five working days and to correcting openly, with a visible dated notice, rather than quietly.
Why a student section at all
Students search constantly and are served badly. Most of what is available is either exam-cramming with no clinical reasoning behind it, or clinical writing pitched well above where a second-year actually is.
This section is written to sit in between: enough reasoning to be worth learning, enough structure to be worth revising from.
Same evidence, different depth
We do not maintain a simplified student version of the clinical library. That is how two versions of a fact end up disagreeing with each other.
Depth is layered within each page instead — plain explanation first, clinical detail below, references last — so you can read further as you are ready.
See the clinical libraryStatus of this section
All thirteen resources are published, twelve of them evidence pages and one clearly labelled as practical guidance; the remaining areas are being written. A module appears here only after a named clinician has reviewed it. The Physiotherapist India Team would rather list what is coming honestly than pad the section with material that has not been checked.