CPD or education is important in order for health practitioners to maintain, improve or broaden their knowledge and skills required in their practice.
In order to avoid such premature use, we suggest that training needs to be required for practitioners, in order to restrict the use of TES to professionals.
In order to formulate consistent guidelines for practitioners, quantitative data and effective methods, models, and tools are required.
Therefore, the main purposes of the current literature review are: to describe the assessments methodology of the most common angular tests used in clinic and scientific settings, as well as to report the cut-off values, which could be used for practitioners in order to categorize the hamstring flexibility as normal or limited.
50 Finally, in order to develop useful CGs for practitioners, providing concrete indications for the adequate management of each stage of the disease, CGs have to be short and concise, with a clear overview and layout.
They are generally more complex and conceptual, sometimes operating on the symbolic or metaphorical level, and requiring a further process of interpretation by policy makers and practitioners in order for them to inform practice.
However, in contrast to an IM model that may rely on referrals by the general practitioner in order for the patient to access specific integrated CTs [ 30, 41], the proposed IM model can be characterised as aiming for interdisciplinary, non-hierarchical decision making involving a mix of conventional and complementary medical solutions to individual case management.
Further research should explore the most effective way for practitioners to conduct referrals and monitor progress in order to maximise the benefits for patients participating in commercial programmes.
GPs and practices chose to participate in order to provide points for practitioner's vocational registration and later for the practices accreditation.
However, we do allow for practitioners to use their own values for internal model development in order to exploit the full range of strategies incorporated in the NPVModel.
