Physiotherapy

4 papers2 findings

C, W, M, H: cells, worms or flies, mice, humans. Dark: independent labs found the same change there. Light: one lab or one study. Outline: nothing yet.

Labs are independent when their papers share no last author and no institution.

Against: findings that point the other way from most findings on the same outcome.

On aging: the drug’s trials ARN judged to be about aging, of every trial that tests it for any use.

No results posted: trials that ended more than a year ago with no results on ClinicalTrials.gov and no paper in ARN’s record.

Company ties: findings with an author at a company, or from a paper whose competing-interests statement declares ties to one.

2 independent labs in 2 countries

Funder: Universidad San Jorge

Human trial1
Humans2

Outcomes

Depressive symptoms

downin humans1

1 study

Physiotherapy decreases depressive symptoms in humans.
“The findings indicate that physiotherapy techniques, particularly therapeutic exercise, in combination with conventional treatments, may improve depressive symptoms in this population.”
ReviewCombined with conventional treatments in participants with depression or depressive symptomsn = 1,368
Effectiveness of physiotherapy techniques on depressive symptoms in older adults: a systematic review
Frontiers in public health17 Sep 2025

Associations

Hospitalisation-associated disability

downin humans1

1 study

Physiotherapy lowers the risk of hospitalisation-associated disability in humans.
“Greater physiotherapy implementation, including higher number of modalities, frequency and amount, was consistently associated with lower HAD incidence across prehospital BI subgroups.”
Humansolder patients with acute heart failure
Physiotherapy implementation and hospitalisation-associated disability according to prehospital functional status in older patients with heart failure: a secondary analysis of a prospective nationwide multicentre registry
Age and ageing4 Sep 2026