en Physiotherapy Physiotherapy Review Article Review Article <span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="color:#0000FF;"><strong><em>Background:</em></strong> </span>The main goal of physical therapy is to help the patient gain a better health status. Several studies have investigated the use of reminders to prevent such failures on the patients&rsquo; side. This article presents a systematic review of the literature concerning reminders in physical therapy.<br> <span style="color:#0000FF;"><strong><em>Methods</em></strong><em>:</em></span> Databases were searched until May 2017 and literatures were found from April 1992 until 2017. The literature recruitment strategy was based on applying several keywords and Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) combination running against title and abstract, including concepts such as reminder, physical therapy. The finally selected articles were categorized through reminder aspects such as how, who feedback. Data were extracted according to PRISMA guidelines.<br> <span style="color:#0000FF;"><strong><em>Results:</em></strong> </span>In 47% of studies, the reminder was sent to the patients, 29% to the physical therapists and 12% to the caretaker team. In 24% of the studies, paper-based letters were main medium for reminders while the rest were various types of media like emails and SMS mobile text messages. 35% of the articles showed positive effects of the reminders.<br> <span style="color:#0000FF;"><strong><em>Conclusions:</em></strong></span> Many reminder methods consisted of SMS, phone calls, letters, emails and notices on the wall were used in physical therapy. Reminders may be used to improve patients&#39; adherence to exercise programs.</span><br> <p></p> Reminder, Physical therapy, Systematic review 7 15 http://caspjim.com/browse.php?a_code=A-10-757-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Majid Jangi Jangim922@mums.ac.ir 100319475328460010967 100319475328460010967 No Department of Medical Informatics, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran. Cesar Fernández-de-las-Peñas cesar.fernandez@urjc.es 100319475328460010968 100319475328460010968 No Department of Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain Mahmoud Tara Taram@mums.ac.ir 100319475328460010969 100319475328460010969 No . Department of Medical Informatics, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Fateme Moghbeli fateme.moghbeli@gmail.com 100319475328460010970 100319475328460010970 No . Department of Health Information Management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Fariba Ghaderi ghaderif@tbzmed.ac.ir 100319475328460010971 100319475328460010971 No Department, Faculty of Rehabilitation, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran Khodabakhsh Javanshir kjavanshir@yahoo.com 100319475328460010972 100319475328460010972 Yes Mobility Impairment Research Center, Health Research Institate, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol Iran