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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Functional measures are important indicators of health, activity, and participation.

LEFS-T has good psychometric qualities and is a valid and reliable scale for elderly adults.

LEFS-T can be used to assess self-reported physical functioning in elderly adults.

LEFS-T can be used to detect the strength impairments of elderly adults in effortful activities.

LEFS-T can be used to plan fall prevention interventions for elderly adults in their daily routine.

Camptocormia treatment requires frequent assessments not allowed by radiographs.

Visual capture tool are useful for such an assessment of sagittal parameters.

Our results show excellent interrater reliability of such a tool SAM3D.

PCS showed adequate validity for assessing individuals with chronic RCRSP.

PCS showed adequate reliability for assessing individuals with chronic RCRSP.

PCS showed adequate responsiveness for assessing individuals with chronic RCRSP.

Systematic difficulty progression in exercise program helps continuous challenges.

Difficulty progressions did not yield greater improvements than not applying them.

The proposed 12-week exercise program improved balance in older individuals.

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.