Clinical Rehabilitation

Clinical Rehabilitation is the peer-reviewed research journal for rehabilitation medicine. Founded under Edward Arnold in 1987 with Derick T. Wade (Oxford Brookes University) as founding editor, the journal carries clinical studies, systematic reviews, and methodological papers across the full breadth of rehabilitation practice: stroke and neurorehabilitation, musculoskeletal rehabilitation, cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation, paediatric rehabilitation, and outcome measurement.

The journal was an early adopter of standardised outcome reporting and has carried influential consensus statements on assessment instruments, the structure of rehabilitation services, and the design of randomised trials in non-pharmacological interventions. Editorial scope spans physiotherapy, occupational therapy, rehabilitation medicine, rehabilitation nursing, speech and language therapy, and clinical psychology — reflecting the multi-professional nature of the field.

Transferred to SAGE Publications in the 2006 Hodder Arnold journals sale, Clinical Rehabilitation has continued without editorial disruption and remains one of the most-cited journals in physical-and-rehabilitation-medicine. Back issues from the Arnold years (1987–2006) are routinely cited in current Cochrane reviews and clinical guidelines.