What if your specialist knowledge could help clinicians in every country?

Physiopedia is looking for experienced clinicians and specialist physiotherapists to take ownership of content in their expert area and help millions of practitioners worldwide access reliable, evidence-based knowledge.

Physiopedia reaches around 4 million clinicians every single month. That’s 4 million people, in nearly every country in the world, opening pages on Physiopedia because they need reliable, evidence-based knowledge to help their patients. And right now, some of those pages in your specialist area could be better. That is where you come in.

If you have spent years developing deep expertise in a specific clinical area, whether that is paediatric rehabilitation, orthopaedics, neurological physiotherapy, cardiorespiratory practice, manual therapy or any other speciality, there is a very good chance that the physiotherapy community needs your knowledge more than you realise. Not just your colleagues at your hospital or university, but a newly qualified physiotherapist in rural Kenya, a student in Bangladesh with no access to textbooks, a clinician in Peru trying to apply the latest evidence with limited resources. Your expertise, shared through Physiopedia, reaches all of them.

Caution, joining the team at Physiopedia could irreversibly change your professional life. I would strongly recommend it for supporting the development of our global physiotherapy community. – Andrea Sturm, Physiotherapist, Austria

What we are offering is genuinely different from most volunteering asks. Rather than being assigned content or asked to work across unfamiliar territory, you choose the pages you want to look after, the ones that fall squarely within your area of clinical expertise. You become the person responsible for that small but significant corner of Physiopedia, ensuring the content reflects current best evidence, that complex topics are presented accurately, and that other volunteer editors working in your area have an experienced specialist to turn to. It is curatorship of something you already know deeply, not a steep learning curve.

The time commitment is modest and entirely flexible. Most specialists in this role contribute a few focused hours each month, reviewing and updating their chosen pages as new evidence emerges, rather than taking on large volumes of general editing. The work fits naturally alongside an existing clinical or academic career, and because you are working within your own specialist domain, the time you invest tends to feel productive and professionally stimulating rather than burdensome.

Being part of the volunteer team has genuinely deepened my engagement with the evidence in my specialist area. Knowing that the content I review is being read by clinicians all over the world makes the time I invest feel incredibly worthwhile. – Physiopedia Volunteer Editor

For academic faculty, clinical educators and senior practitioners at institutions where professional service or public engagement forms part of your formal responsibilities, this is a meaningful and well-documented way to meet that commitment. Contributing to the world’s largest free physiotherapy resource, one that demonstrably improves access to knowledge across low and middle income countries, is precisely the kind of service that reflects well on you, your department and your institution. Physiopedia provides formal certification and contribution records, so your involvement is properly recognised and easy to evidence for appraisal, promotion or professional portfolio purposes.

There are also benefits that go beyond professional recognition. Staying closely engaged with the evidence in your specialist field keeps your own clinical reasoning sharp in ways that a busy caseload alone rarely does. You will connect with an international community of rehabilitation professionals who share your depth of interest in the same clinical area. And you will be building something with genuine staying power. A well-maintained, high-quality Physiopedia page in your speciality may be read by hundreds of thousands of clinicians over the years ahead, informing assessments, shaping treatment decisions and improving patient outcomes across contexts you will never directly encounter. That is a remarkable return on a few hours of your expertise each month.

The process for getting involved is straightforward. Following a brief application, you will complete the Physiopedia Editor Onboarding Programme, a free, fully online course completed at your own pace, which introduces you to the platform and the editorial quality standards. You will be welcomed into a warm, collaborative team with a dedicated communication channel, regular team sessions and experienced colleagues alongside you from the start. Specialists also receive complimentary access to Physiopedia Plus for their own continuing professional development, and formal certification recognising their contribution.

You have spent years building expertise that genuinely matters to your patients. This is the opportunity to let that knowledge travel further than any single clinic or campus ever could. Visit the Physiopedia Editorial Team and Roles page to find out more and register your interest. The patients who benefit may never know your name, but the clinicians you equip will be better for having found your work.

Physiopedia, the world’s largest free physiotherapy and rehabilitation knowledge platform, is looking for passionate health professionals to join its global editorial team and help ensure that millions of clinicians worldwide continue to have access to accurate, evidence-based resources.