Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Physical Therapy

Physical therapy is a healthcare discipline focused on restoring, maintaining, and improving movement, function, and physical capacity in people affected by injury, illness, disability, or the effects of aging. Practitioners assess and treat impairments of the musculoskeletal, neurological, and cardiorespiratory sys…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 8 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 48× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2766-8681 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Physical therapy is a healthcare discipline focused on restoring, maintaining, and improving movement, function, and physical capacity in people affected by injury, illness, disability, or the effects of aging. Practitioners assess and treat impairments of the musculoskeletal, neurological, and cardiorespiratory systems using interventions such as therapeutic exercise, manual techniques, movement retraining, and physical modalities, often as an alternative or complement to medication and surgery. Its goals include reducing pain, improving mobility and strength, supporting recovery and rehabilitation, and helping patients regain independence in daily activities. The peer-reviewed research collected here reflects several of these aims. A study evaluates Tai-Chi exercise training for older community-dwelling adults with painful knee osteoarthritis, examining a movement-based intervention for joint pain and function. Other work addresses progress in rehabilitation treatments for sepsis patients in the intensive care unit, and the use of low-level laser therapy to promote healing and rapid pain control in pediatric fractures. Additional studies consider non-pharmacological interventions and broader rehabilitation and aging-related care. Together these open-access articles span exercise-based, rehabilitative, and physical-modality approaches relevant to the practice of physical therapy across age groups and clinical settings.

Research published in this journal

8 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 8 articles above have been cited 48 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Physical Therapy, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Current Scientific Research (ISSN 2766-8681).

Journal editorial board
Eva Volna · Czech Republic Shailendra Dwivedi · United States Mukhtar Ansari · Saudi Arabia

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