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I. Physiotherapy Review

Physiotherapy Review (previously Medycyna Manualna) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 1997. The purpose of the magazine is to promote and disseminate the knowledge about modern diagnostic and therapeutic methods among medical doctors and physiotherapists.

Physiotherapy Review quarterly publishes empirical studies (research works and case reports) and review (theoretical) works on physiotherapy, medical rehabilitation and orthopaedics.

The journal also publishes reports of Polish and international congresses and conferences, commentaries and letters to the Editor.

Physiotherapy Review is an open-access journal published under licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). The entire licence text is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.pl. Submission of a manuscript means that the author consents to making it available under the above Creative Commons licence. The licence allows third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform and build upon the material, on condition that the original material is properly cited and conforms to the terms of licence.

The journal applies procedures to ensure that the scientific publications are original in accordance with the criteria of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICJME) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).

The Editors observe the highest standards of scientific publication and the cooperation with the authors is based on transparency of information on the actual contribution of persons/institutions in the development of the publication (ghost-writing and guest authorship).

II. Manuscript submission

Physiotherapy Review publishes works in Polish or English. Manuscripts can be submitted in Polish or English or both.

Works in English are preferred.

Manuscripts should be submitted via the Editorial System.

Each manuscript submitted should be accompanied with a statement available in the editorial system and all required information on the work submitted and its authors. The editorial process begins after the proper version of the manuscript with all necessary attachments is submitted. Manuscripts that do not meet the editorial requirements will be sent back for correction without any subject matter analysis.

III. Manuscript preparation

Manuscripts should be submitted in one of the following formats: doc, docx or rtf. Any graphic material attached should be included in the body of the manuscript and also sent as separate jpg or png files (min. 300 dpi). The entire text of the work (including references, figures, tables and abstract) should not be more than: for review papers – 15 pages, for empirical studies – 8 pages (standard page – 1800 characters including spaces).

The manuscript should be uploaded at Editorial System

Abstract

The abstract of empirical studies identical in Polish and English should not contain more than 1500 characters including spaces (in one language) and have four separate sections:

a. aims;

b. material and methods;

c. results;

d. conclusions.

All abbreviations used in the abstract should be explained.

Abstracts of review papers should not contain more than 1500 characters including spaces and contain the aim of the work and basic assumptions.

Structure of the work

The structure of the work should contain separate sections:

1. introduction;

2. aims;

3. material and methods;

4. results;

5. discussion;

6. conclusions;

7. references.

The material and methods section should provide details of all research methods used which are set out in the results. The names of statistical methods and software used to analyse the results should be given. The empirical studies should contain a representation to the effect that patients participating in the study were informed about the course of the study and they consented to participate in writing.

Tables, graphs and figures

Tables, graphs and figures of high technical quality (minimum resolution of 300 dpi) should be included in the body of the manuscript and also in separate files (one file for tables and one file for graphs and figures). Titles of tables, graphs and figures and their contents should be prepared in Polish or in Polish and English in the case of the author’s translation/if the author translated them. All abbreviations used should be explained. Captions should be provided above the tables and underneath the graphs and figures, which should be numbered using Arabic numerals and all abbreviations should be explained underneath tables, graphs and figures.

Reference list

The journal uses the Vancouver reference style. References should be listed in the order in which they appear in the body text, tables and figures (for references cited in tables and figures only, the order corresponding to the first reference to the table or figure in the body text applies). In the body text, the references should be given as numbers in square brackets e.g. [1, 4, 22]. The number of works cited in empirical studies should not exceed 20, and for review papers – 40.

For journal articles contained in the reference list, the following information should be given:

1. last name and the first letter of the first name of the author(s) (In general all authors should be mentioned. If there are more than 6 authors, the last author name should be followed by “et al.” – in works in English and “i wsp.” [and others] – in works in Polish);

2. title of the work;

3. abbreviated journal titles as per Medline Index Medicus https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals);

4. year of publication;

5. number of the volume (yearbook);

6. first and last pages of the article.

Information on books should include:

1. last name of the author(s) and the first letter of the first name;

2. title;

3. number of the edition (if any);

4. name of the publisher;

5. place and year of publication.

For collective works, the following information should be given:

1. name of the editor(s) following the book title and “(ed.)”, and for chapters of the book – author(s) of the chapter, title of the chapter, and then after “[in:]” – the title of the entire book, author(s), editor(s) of the entire work;

2. designation of the volume;

3. name of the publisher;

4. place and year of publication;

5. first and last pages of the work.

The list of references should contain the most recent publications related to the topic concerned – published in the last 2-4 years.

IV. Work approval procedure

The journal uses the double-blind review process. The manuscript submitted is first of all subject to formal assessment. At that stage the manuscript can be accepted for further proceeding, sent back to the author to be corrected, or rejected. At the next stage the work is sent for review to at least two independent experts.

The reviewer prepares the review in an electronic form. The reviewer’s opinion includes an expert opinion and a summary of recommendations relating to the decision to be made for the article in question to either:

1. approve it without any corrections; or

2. approve it after minor corrections are made; or

3. approve it after major corrections are made and the assessment is repeated; or

4. reject the work.

Ethical approval:

The research related to human use has been complied with all the relevant national regulations, institutional policies and in accordance the tenets of the Helsinki Declaration, and has been approved by the authors' institutional review board or equivalent committee.

The research related to animals use has been complied with all the relevant national regulations and institutional policies for the care and use of animals.

If the manuscript does not contain any study that requires human or animal ethical approval, the following statement should be included in the Author Declaration:

Authors declare that conducted research is not related to either human or animals use.

Clinical trials

Physiotherapy Review is published in accordance with ICMJE policies and recommendations. The ICMJE requires - and recommends that all medical journal editors require - registration of clinical trials in a public trials registry at or before the time of first patient enrollment as a condition of consideration for article publication.

The ICMJE defines a clinical trial as any research project that prospectively assigns people or a group of people to an intervention, with or without concurrent comparison or control groups, to study the relationship between a health-related intervention and a health outcome. Health-related interventions are those used to modify a biomedical or health-related outcome; examples include drugs, surgical procedures, devices, behavioural treatments, educational programs, dietary interventions, quality improvement interventions, and process-of-care changes. Health outcomes are any biomedical or health-related measures obtained in patients or participants, including pharmacokinetic measures and adverse events.

The ICMJE accepts publicly accessible registration in any registry that is a primary register of the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) that includes the minimum acceptable 24-item trial registration data set or in ClinicalTrials.gov, which is a data provider to the WHO ICTRP.

In accordance with the ICMJE recommendations, the Editors of Physiotherapy Review require authors to provide all necessary information regarding the registered study when submitting the article for publication: name of the register, Main ID, Public Title, Date of Registration. The data provided by the author are verified by the editors.

More information on this can be found here www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/publishing-and-editorial-issues/clinical-trial-registration.html

Source: ICMJE, Clinical Trials, www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/publishing-and-editorial-issues/clinical-trial-registration.html

Plagiarism:

As part of the editorial process, all the submitted manuscripts are screened for plagiarism.

Duplicate publication, occurs when an author reuses substantial parts of his or her own published work, or another author, without providing the appropriate references.

The manuscripts in which the plagiarism is detected are subject to additional individual assessment based on a professional report from iThenticate.

Papers qualified for print by the reviewers and works including corrections made are assessed by the Editor-in-Chief who decides on the final approval for print in Physiotherapy Review. Authors are informed of the approval of the manuscript for print or rejection by email. After the approval before publication for the article prepared by the editors, the article will be published in Physiotherapy Review.

V. Obligatory information on processing of personal data provided by authors and reviewers

The controller of your personal data is the Polish Chamber of Physiotherapists with its registered seat in Warsaw, Plac Stanisława Małachowskiego 2, 00-066 Warsaw. In all matters related to personal data processing, please contact Ms Katarzyna Pisarzewska, Data Protection Officer, by sending an email to: iod@kif.info.pl. Data are processed as regards your sending, as an author or reviewer, of the work to be published in the Physiotherapy Review journal. Provision of your personal data is voluntary though necessary for due consideration of your submission and publication of the work. In this respect the Polish Chamber of Physiotherapists processes your personal data including: full name, academic title, email address and telephone number.

Data are processed under Article 6(1)(a) and 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation, that is based on your consent and for performance of the terms of cooperation. Your personal data will be processed for the time necessary to consider your submission and then publishing of the work in the journal. Afterwards data will be processed for the time set in the civil law regulations governing the exercise or defence of legal claims, if any, then data will be erased or made anonymous. Data will not be subject to profiling; data will always be processed with human involvement. Your personal data may be transferred to the following categories of recipients: Physiotherapy Review readers, suppliers of services providing technical and organisational solutions to the controller for management of the organisation (including but not limited to providers of ICT services, publishers, courier and postal companies) and providers of legal and advisory services and services to support the Polish Chamber of Physiotherapists.

Since the controller uses services of other providers, your personal data may be transferred outside of the European Union. In that case, data transfer will be based on a relevant agreement between the Polish Chamber of Physiotherapists and such entity, which should contain standard data protection clauses adopted by the European Commission. As a controller the Polish Chamber of Physiotherapists warrants you the right of access to personal data, right to rectification, right to demand their erasure or restriction of data processing. You can also exercise the right to object to processing of personal data and the right to data portability. Please also be informed that you have the right to lodge a complaint with the authority supervising compliance of personal data protection regulations.