The Australian and NZ SCI Physiotherapy guideline committee recommends that people with SCI should have physiotherapy as appropriate for the management of impairments, activity limitations or participation opportunities throughout the course of their life.  This is a consensus-based opinion statement supported by the opinions of the experts. There are no randomized controlled trials on this topic. The guideline states:

People with SCI should have physiotherapy as appropriate for the management of impairments, activity limitations or participation opportunities throughout the course of their life.

This statement was formed by considering the opinions of the experts alongside other factors. The other factors that were considered were benefits and harms, values and preferences, resource use, equity, accessibility, and feasibility.

This is a consensus-based opinion statement. Consensus-based opinion statements are less robust than evidence-based recommendations. They can be strong or weak. This is a strong consensus-based opinion statement which means that the guideline panel is confident they can recommend that people with SCI should have physiotherapy as appropriate for the management of impairments, activity limitations or participation opportunities throughout the course of their life.

To learn more about the this intervention go to the research summary.