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. 2022 Dec;58(6):799-801.
doi: 10.23736/S1973-9087.22.07814-5.

Time to replace the inappropriate old name of Physiotherapy for the medical specialty of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine in official EU documents

Mauro Zampolini  1 , Iuly Treger  2   3 , Anda Nulle  4 , Carlotte Kiekens  5 , Catarina Aguiar Branco  6 , Nikolaos Barotsis  7 , Rolf Frischknecht  8 , Piotr Tederko  9   10 , Wim Janssen  11 , Nicolas Christodoulou  12 , Aydan Oral  13   14
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Time to replace the inappropriate old name of Physiotherapy for the medical specialty of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine in official EU documents

Mauro Zampolini et al. Eur J Phys Rehabil Med. 2022 Dec.
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