Required competencies for French physiotherapists for direct access to primary care for patients with musculoskeletal disorders: consensus statement based on a Delphi survey.

Background: Physiotherapists who will practice in direct access model of care must acquire the required competencies to ensure adequate and safe patient care. There is no set of required competencies for French physiotherapists.

Objective: To develop a consensus on a minimum set of competencies that French physiotherapists should acquire to practice in direct access to primary care with patients with musculoskeletal disorders.

Description of the abilities of physiotherapists in terms of diagnostic hypothesis and management decision for self-referred patients with musculoskeletal disorders in France using clinical vignettes: A cross-sectional survey.

Background: Direct access to physiotherapy has been introduced in several countries. In France, the healthcare system is evolving towards its introduction; however, no study has described the ability of physiotherapists in this context.

Objective: To describe the ability of physiotherapists practicing in France to formulate correct diagnostic hypotheses and make appropriate management decisions using clinical vignettes.

Advanced practice physiotherapists can diagnose and triage patients with musculoskeletal disorders while providing effective care: a systematic review.

Questions: What is the diagnostic and surgical triage concordance between advanced practice physiotherapists (APPTs) and physicians? What is the clinical efficacy of advanced practice physiotherapy care compared with usual medical care?

Design: Systematic review with meta-analyses.

Literature Search: Medline, Embase, Cochrane CENTRAL and CINAHL were searched up to March 2022.

Study Selection Criteria: Concordance studies on diagnostic or surgical triage between APPTs and physicians and randomised controlled trials comparing the clinical efficacy of an advanced practice physiotherapy (APP) model of care compared with usual medical care for participants with musculoskeletal disorders.

Core competencies for first contact physiotherapists in a direct access model of care for adults with musculoskeletal disorders: A scoping review.

Introduction: To optimise the management of Musculoskeletal disorders (MSKDs), many countries have implemented direct access to physiotherapy; however, the core competencies required for first contact physiotherapists (PTs) have not been precisely defined. The aim of this scoping review is to identify and describe the core competencies required for first contact PTs treating adults with MSKDs.

Methods: We conducted a scoping review of the literature by searching eight databases and grey literature up to July 2023.

[Physiotherapy treatments for the care of patients with chronic pain].

In recent years, numerous studies have highlighted the advances made possible by kinesitherapy treatments. These can be used to reduce the frequency, intensity and duration of pain, as well as the functional repercussions of chronic pain. The neurophysiological mechanism involved in primary chronic pain and the pathology producing secondary chronic pain must be taken into account in determining the nature of the treatments to be implemented.

Cervicogenic headache, an easy diagnosis? A systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic studies.

Background: The diagnosis of cervicogenic headache (CGH) remains a challenge for clinicians as the diagnostic value of detailed history and clinical findings remains unclear.

Objectives: To update and evaluate available evidence of the prevalence and the diagnostic accuracy of the detailed history and clinical findings for CGH in adults with headache.

Design: Systematic review with meta-analysis.

Spinal pain patients seeking care in primary care and referred to physiotherapy: A cross-sectional study on patients characteristics, referral information and physiotherapy care offered by general practitioners and physiotherapists in France.

Objectives: To describe spinal pain patients referred by their treating general practitioners to physiotherapy care, examine to which extent physiotherapy interventions proposed by general practitioners and physiotherapists were compliant to evidence based recommendations, and evaluate concordance between providers in terms of diagnosis and contraindications to physiotherapy interventions.

Methods: This study included spinal pain patients recruited from a random sample of sixty French physiotherapists. Physiotherapists were asked to supply patients' physiotherapy records and characteristics from the general practitioner's physiotherapy referral for the five new consecutive patients referred to physiotherapy.

Evidence-Based, Implementable Motor Rehabilitation Guidelines for Individuals With Cerebral Palsy.

Background: Cerebral palsy is a life-long condition that causes heterogeneous motor disorders. Motor rehabilitation interventions must be adapted to the topography of the symptoms, ambulatory capacity, and age of the individual. Current guidelines do not differentiate between the different profiles of individuals with cerebral palsy, which limits their implementation.

Efficacy of physiotherapy interventions for the management of adults with cervicogenic headache: A systematic review and meta-analyses.

Objective: To update and appraise the efficacy of physiotherapy for adults with cervicogenic headache.

Literature Survey: Bibliographic searches were conducted up to October 2021 for randomized controlled trials (RCTs), assessing the efficacy of physiotherapy interventions for adults with cervicogenic headache, in five databases: CINAHL, Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro), PubMed, Sage Journals, and Wiley Online Library.

Methodology: Data extraction of included trials was conducted by two reviewers according to a standardized extraction form.

Economic evaluation of advanced practice physiotherapy models of care: a systematic review with meta-analyses.

Background: The objective of this systematic review is to appraise evidence on the economic evaluations of advanced practice physiotherapy (APP) care compared to usual medical care.

Methods: Systematic searches were conducted up to September 2021 in selected electronic bibliographical databases. Economic evaluation studies on an APP model of care were included.

The impact of direct access physiotherapy compared to primary care physician led usual care for patients with musculoskeletal disorders: a systematic review of the literature.

Purpose: To update and appraise the available evidence with respect to the impact of direct access physiotherapy compared to primary care physician-led usual medical care for patients with musculoskeletal disorders in terms of efficacy, health care utilization and processes, health care costs, patient satisfaction, and compliance.

Materials And Methods: Systematic searches were conducted in five bibliographic databases up to June 2019. Studies presenting quantitative data of any research related to direct access physiotherapy for patients with musculoskeletal disorders were included.