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Ageism significantly impacts the health and well-being of older people.

Journals are adopting style guides to assist authors in using age-inclusive language and combat ageism.

Shifting to positive and neutral language in research supports the foundations of the decade of healthy ageing.

We explore how fear and avoidance can be learned and lead to disability.

We explore the fear learning theory to physical therapy clinical practice.

We discuss behavioral frameworks to address movement-related fear and avoidance.

We illustrate practical application through a patient case study.

Simple interfaces, technology, and home adaptation can increase telerehabilitation efficacy.

Educating patients and relatives on telerehabilitation is important.

Patients with Parkinson: key issues are communication and session compliance.

Patients with multiple sclerosis: flexibility and accessibility are crucial for successful treatment.

The DC/TMD was translated and adapted into Brazilian Portuguese.

Brazilian TMD Pain Screener is valid and reliable.

Brazilian DC/TMD Axis I is reliable for painful TMDs diagnosis.

Reliability studies often show a lack of coherence among study purpose, design, choice of analysis, sample size justification, and reporting of results.

Possible explanations for this deficiency include vaguely structured purpose statements and limitations of statistical software packages.

This article provides resources to improve the coherence and reporting of reliability studies.

Only 5.5 % of physical therapy associations had Choosing Wisely recommendations.

Most recommendations focused on musculoskeletal physical therapy.

Expanding Choosing Wisely in physical therapy may raise awareness of low-value care.

Conclusiveness of Cochrane reviews was small and did not change from 2001 to 2020.

Reporting of a need for further studies also remained consistent throughout the period.

There has been accumulation in the number of conclusive reviews across a 20-year period.

Outcomes of the HRET are influenced by personal characteristics.

Female sex, higher BMI, and low activity level link to lower HRET metrics.

Normative values may help track recovery and guide rehabilitation plans.

Online tool for HRET estimates available at: www.achillestendontool.com/HRET.

Educational level and number of pregnancies were associated with vulvovaginal symptoms.

Vaginal discharge and itching were the most prevalent vulvovaginal symptoms.

Vulvovaginal symptoms had a low impact on quality of life.