Good

Thanks for your support.

Dear Professor

What you have suggested is appreciable. In future machine learning and artificial intelligence will have a better role in clinical decision making. I think data repositories might be useful to maintain and manage such datas from specific field so that in future it can be utilised for large data analysis.

Dear Rob A B Oostendorp I am sorry, I don't have the experience you are asking for but I agree with you that AI might be of use to close the gaps between CPGs and physiotherapy practice. In Amsterdam at the University of Applied Sciences we are starting a Smart Health/Care Lab as part of the Expertise Centre for Applied AI. A similiar question as yours has already been discussed and might be one of the research topics for the next years. I invited @Martijn M Stuiver, @Nanda Piersma and Saskia Robben to participate in the discussion.

Dear Professor Bart

That sounds great, waiting for the response from others in your team.

Dear colleagues,

Thanks for the supportive discussion on this upcoming theme in the field of physiotherapy.

For your interest see reference: Chew SY et al., Making linical practice guidelines pragmatic: how big data and real world evidence can close the gap. Ann Acad Med Signapore. 2018;47:523-7.

Attached you will find a recently published paper 'Routinely collected data as real-world evidence for physiotherapy practice':

Emiel van Trijffel, Rob A.B. Oostendorp, and J.W. Hans Elvers. PHYSIOTHERAPY THEORY AND PRACTICE 2019, VOL. 35, NO. 9, 805–809.

Thanks again for your discussion.

Stay healthy and best wishes,

Rob Oostendorp.

Hi. I agree this is an exciting area of development that might help in future physiotherapy practice. I guess the predictive models will need to be driven by big data, and will require standardised data collection on patients undergoing physio treatment - this might be a current stumbling block. I'm aware that there is some development work going on in this field in the UK, and would be excited to hear of anything you are doing/ planning.

Christine

Together, we are aware that much development work is going on in the field of physiotherapy over the world. Thanks for your support.

its very important to employ the artificial intelligent in the physiotherapy treatment

Rob A B Oostendorp : First of all thanking you to for exploring this futuristic area that will lead physiotherapy practice. It necessitates proper documentation of the clinical findings in electronic format in therapy settings irrespective of size. Standardized document management systems, excellent physiotherapy clinical skills, and sound clinical reasoning will lead the way.

We are currently working on a study among physical therapists to know their awareness of AI in rehabilitation

Dear Binoy and Fayaz and followers,

I completely agree with you that the absence of an explecit process of clinical reasoning and a standardized document management system may be the underlying cause for the lack of real practice evidence of physiotherapy. See attachment 'We are missing more' (Oostendorp et al., Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapt 2019;27(5):253-257).

I am very curious about the results of the artificial intellegence (AI) awareness study in rehabilitation among students.

Best wishes form the Netherlands,

Rob Oostendorp..

Dear Gianluca ,

Thank you for your interest and references,

best wishes,

Rob Oostendorp

Rob A B Oostendorp

Dear Professor

Thank you for the reference and the interest that you have shown in our study, infact the intended study will have a qualitative part with in person interviews.

I will update with you with our findings.

Will artificial intelligence be the answer to that gap? Why does this GAP exist? Who is writing the CGPs? Will the gap be one of applicability, access, or is it that we need to focus even more attention and care on people?

I have a lot of interest in the area, I am self-taught big data/ML with Python and R, but I still do not have support or data to apply it in our field of physiotherapy.

Thanks Gianluca for references,

What areas of physiotherapy do you think will be closer to the ML?

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348741647_Role_and_scope_of_artificial_intelligence_in_physiotherapy_A_scientific_review_of_literature&ved=2ahUKEwjH7rf6zYjxAhW1zDgGHZI8CyYQFjALegQIDBAC&usg=AOvVaw2SoqRMSA49-Pl9c7xoCqTS