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Pain is a common problem in the field of pediatrics.

To date, pain education resources for young children are lacking.

A comic book about pain education can be a useful method to present pain concepts to children.

Pain education can contribute to changing children's maladaptive beliefs and behaviors.

ACL-RSI-SV in Brazilian Portuguese has appropriate measurement properties.

ACL-RSI-SV has a high correlation with the ACL-RSI full version.

ACL-RSI-SV identifies those who can return to sport at the pre-injury level.

The culture of an individual is dynamic and constantly evolving.

Health beliefs and behaviors are shaped by cultural factors.

The influence of cultural factors on pain remains overlooked.

The perception, communication of pain, and behavior are shaped by culture.

Pain education and exercises should consider cultural diversity.

Beliefs that some strategies to lift a light load may be harmful are common among health care professionals, particularly medical students and doctors.

The majority of qualified physical therapists are aware that all strategies used to lift a light load are safe.

Taking a pain education course positively impacts physical therapists’ attitudes and beliefs.

Cognitive factors are related to unfavourable clinical outcomes in patients with LBP.

Kinesiophobia, catastrophizing, and maladaptive beliefs played a negative role in LBP.

Anxiety, symptoms of depression, and perceived stress were not linked to severe pain.

Digital physical therapy may be a solution for continuity during lockdown, yet its development appears complex.

Implementation difficulties seem to relate to physical, attentional, and training factors.

Technological accessibility, adaptation of the therapist and involvement of the whole family appear to be facilitators.

Future possibilities may support a better follow-up with fluid communication between families and therapists.

Patients should not rely on low back pain information from Brazilian official websites.

The Brazilian official websites do not follow the recommendations from clinical practice guidelines.

Brazilian official websites show low credibility standards and inaccurate information about low back pain.

18 clinical descriptors for diagnosing RCRSP were defined across six domains.

The results summarize the current knowledge about diagnosis of RCRSP.

The results could be useful to standardize the diagnosis of RCRSP.

Shared decision making helps to translate evidence into practice.

It can improve communication and accuracy of intervention expectations.

Physical therapists are ideally positioned to practice shared decision making.

Shared decision making is a skill that should be taught to clinicians.

Strategies to increase its uptake are required at multiple levels.

No evidence was found that photobiomodulation applied during combined training promote any additional effects.

Participants already adapted to a specific stimulus or previously trained do not benefit from the use of photobiomodulation for recovery.

Photobiomodulation was not superior to placebo and control on functional, clinical, and systemic outcomes.

The Psychosomatic Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents was easily understood.

The Psychosomatic Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents had good reliability and validity.

The Psychosomatic Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents can be used with Brazilian-Portuguese speaking children and adolescents with musculoskeletal pain.

Physical therapists and the general population are hesitant in using telerehabilitation. Concerns include, but are not limited to, the financial worth of telerehabilitation.

Physical therapists agree with the provision of education and self-management strategies via telerehabilitation, but the general population highlights the need for exercise prescription and technical orientation on exercise performance.

Practical recommendations and adequate training are needed to address physical therapists’ acceptability to telerehabilitation. For the general population, gradual exposure to telerehabilitation could enhance engagement with this mode of delivering physical therapy.

Challenging the kinetic chain influences upper trapezius muscle activity.

Adding external rotation resistance decreases upper trapezius activity.

Adding trunk extension increases upper trapezius activity.

Changing exercise position does not change scapular muscle activity.

Physical therapy is part of a larger rehabilitation community promoting social justice and health equity.

Rehabilitation is not only for persons with disability.

Greater access to physical therapy and rehabilitation services would help “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being at all ages”.

“Rehabilitation 2030″ is a call to fulfill the basic human right to health and wellbeing, and all physical therapists have a role to play.

The booklet is a material for continuous health care of the foot-ankle.

The booklet has the aim of improving the musculoskeletal function of the foot-ankle.

The booklet is intended to be a preventive tool for the impacts of DPN progression.

The material offers an exercise regime with a personalized progression.

Electromagnetic field therapy did not have an impact on multiple sclerosis-related fatigue in adults with minimal to significant disability.

The effect of electromagnetic fields was similar to placebo for measures of walking performance.

Magnetic field therapy did not evoke changes in depressive symptoms or quality of life.

The prevalence of sedentary behavior among adolescents was high.

Boys with moderate sedentary behavior were 2.7 times more likely to have neck pain when compared to those with low sedentary behavior. Similar findings were observed for girls.

Girls with moderate and high sedentary behavior were 2.5 times more likely to have low back pain.

Normative hip external rotation (ER) torque values were based on 451 athletes.

Between-limb asymmetry in hip ER torque was higher in basketball athletes.

Soccer athletes have greater hip ER torque than basketball and volleyball athletes.