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
7 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
Osteoarthritis Depressive, Loneliness and Social Isolation in Later Life and the Robotic Companion
Progress in Rehabilitation Treatments for Sepsis Patients in ICU
Enhanced Healing and Bone re-Modelling by Low-Level Laser Therapy for Rapid Pain Control in Pediatric Fractures
The Role of Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Disrupted Sleep in the Moderate-Severe Dementia Population: A Systematic Review
How this research is being cited
The 7 articles above have been cited 9 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Nov 2026.
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2026 · BMC Geriatrics
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Jaekwon Seok et al. · 2023 · Journal of Translational Medicine
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2022 · Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology
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Arash Bahari Bandari et al. · 2022 · Journal of lasers in medical sciences
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Iman Ehsan et al. · 2022 · Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology
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2022 · Journal of lasers in medical sciences
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2020 · Photobiomodulation, Photomedicine, and Laser Surgery
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2020 · Photobiomodulation Photomedicine and Laser Surgery
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