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Theory in Physical Therapy

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To help advance theory in physical therapy, the 1987 Annual Conference Call for Participants will invite a new type of presentation, Theory Papers. Each paper is to address the kind of theory being presented, the explanatory or predictive purpose of the theory, the evidence on which the theory is based, the testability of the theory, and the importance of the theory.

Theory connects practice and ideas. Prediction of new treatment techniques, explanation of existing methods, and discrimination between fruitless and potentially fruitful areas of research inquiry depend on integration of ideas, empirical research data, and practice in the clinic. This integrator of facts and ideas is theory.¹

Much of the basic biology and physiology required to generate theory in physical therapy is in place. Physical therapists are beginning to accumulate the empirical, clinical data required for sophisticated theory germination.²...

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