Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

AI can support documentation, triage, education, measurement, and pattern recognition in physiotherapy. Its value depends on validated performance, representative data, transparent use, and clinician review. These systems can assist clinical judgment, but the physiotherapist remains accountable for the decision and for recognizing confident errors or bias.

Questions for practice

• Which problem would this address, and what outcomes matter to the person receiving care?
• What evidence supports this application, population, and setting?
• What skills, safeguards, resources, and accountability would its use require?
• What would justify continuing, changing, or stopping its use?

This is an introductory overview of a domain in the PhysioFuturist model. Specific products and clinical uses need their own evidence assessment.

Read the Perspective for the reasoning behind these questions or explore the autonomy-accountability continuum.

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