How we write, review and update our pages

Who holds editorial responsibility

The Book a Physio editorial team holds editorial responsibility for every page published on this site. The editor holds a physiotherapy degree and is not on the CORU register. The title physiotherapist is protected in Ireland and belongs to people on that register, so we do not use it about the editor, with or without a caveat attached, and will not until the editor is registered.

Every page is read in full and approved by the editor before it publishes. That is a substantive review and not a formality: the editor reads the finished page as a reader would, checks every factual claim against the source it came from, removes anything that promises an outcome or states a number we cannot stand over, and either approves it or sends it back. A page the editor has not finished reading does not publish.

Where a page has been approved, the review line at the bottom of it records the date it was read and approved. Where it has not, the line says nothing about approval rather than implying one.

The editorial team is currently one person. We say so rather than writing in a plural that sounds larger than it is.

What these pages are, and are not

Our condition pages and guides are general information written for adults in Ireland. They describe what physiotherapists typically do with a problem and what a video session can and cannot do. They are a secondary source: they summarise established practice and published guidance, they do not report original research, and they are not a substitute for an assessment by a registered professional.

Nothing on this site is a diagnosis, a treatment plan, or medical advice for you personally. If something on a page seems to describe you, that is a reason to be assessed, not a conclusion.

Every page that touches a clinical topic carries a list of situations where you should see someone in person or contact emergency services first. Those lists are short prompts, not complete. If you are worried, contact your GP, or call 112 or 999 in an emergency.

Clinical pages need a registered physiotherapist, and are held until they have one

Editorial approval is not clinical sign off, and we do not treat it as though it were. A page that tells you which symptoms mean you should go to an emergency department instead of booking a session needs to be read by someone on the CORU register, because that is the person qualified to be the last reader of that sentence.

So clinical pages, meaning our condition pages and anything else carrying symptoms, self-assessment or red flag lists, require review by a CORU registered physiotherapist before they publish at all. Until that review has happened they are held: they are written, they sit in the repository, and they are not on the site. You will not find them by searching, they are not in our sitemap, and nothing here links to them.

This is why the site currently has guides and reference pages but no condition pages. We would rather publish less and have what is published be answerable to someone.

Who writes them

Pages are drafted from published clinical guidance and standard physiotherapy practice, then edited and approved as described above. Nothing here is presented as the advice of a registered physiotherapist unless a named, registered reviewer has signed it.

No outside contributor has written a page yet. When one does, they will be named on the page and their profile linked from it.

What the line at the bottom of a page means

Every page ends with a line saying who wrote it, when it was approved for publication where it has been, and when it last changed. What else that line says depends on what kind of page it is, because a claim that is not made does not need a reviewer.

On our reference pages for physiotherapists, our contributor pages and this page, there is no clinical review line at all. These pages make no clinical claim about anybody's body, so there is nothing for a physiotherapist to sign, and printing an empty review state on them would be noise dressed up as rigour.

On our legal pages the line says only that the page is a draft and when it last changed. Those pages are waiting on a solicitor, not on a physiotherapist or an editor, and they say so at the top of themselves.

How pages are drafted, and where machines come into it

We use software, including AI writing tools, to draft and edit. We are saying so here because it is true and because we would rather you heard it from us than guessed. What that never means is a page going up unread.

Every sentence on this site has been read by the editor before publication, checked against the source it came from, and approved. The editorial team is answerable for what is on each page, whatever was used to draft it. That is the whole point of the line at the bottom.

How often pages are checked

Each page shows the date it last changed. We aim to re-read every clinical page at least once a year and sooner when guidance changes, when a reader tells us something is wrong, or when a reviewer asks for it. The date on the page is the fact; the aim is the aim.

What we do not do

We do not promise outcomes or recovery times. We do not use statistics without saying where they came from. We do not name insurers, quote what they will pay, or say that you will get tax relief; we say what may be possible and tell you where to check. We do not publish testimonials or ratings we cannot stand over, and we do not invent people, availability, or numbers to make a page look busier than it is.

We do not carry advertising, and no page is written to sell a specific product. The one thing every page points at is booking a session with a registered physiotherapist, which is the service.

Telling us something is wrong

If a page is out of date, unclear, or wrong, email hello@bookaphysio.ie with the page address and what you think should change. We read every message. Corrections that change the meaning of a page are dated on the page.