About Physiotherapie

Physiotherapie

Physiotherapie — the journal "pt Zeitschrift für Physiotherapeuten" — is the highest-circulation specialist journal for physiotherapists in the German-speaking area, published by the Richard Pflaum Verlag in Munich. Appearing twelve times a year — the 75th volume year in 2023, pointing to a 1948 founding — it accompanies the physiotherapy's developments and professionalisation with objective, well-founded and independent reporting, transferring scientific knowledge into the practice, month after month for 75 years. The target group: the physiotherapists, the Krankengymnasten, the masseurs, the occupational therapists — and the doctors, sports scientists and sports physicians. The portal physiotherapie.de carries the ePaper, the pt-Podcast and the newsletters. The ISSN: 1614-0397 — the journal's international identifier, the 75 volumes' bibliographic anchor, the specialist press's registered title. The publisher: the Richard Pflaum Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Lazarettstraße 4, 80636 München.

Overview

Physiotherapie — the journal "pt Zeitschrift für Physiotherapeuten" — is a monthly German-language specialist journal for physiotherapy, published by the Richard Pflaum Verlag GmbH & Co. KG in Munich. It appears twelve times a year; the 75th volume year in 2023 dates the founding to approximately 1948. The most important aim is the transfer of scientific knowledge into the practice; it accompanies the current developments and the professionalisation process in the physiotherapy with objective, well-founded and independent reporting — offering across all the issue's departments a serious and evidence-based editorial environment for the advertising. The target group: the physiotherapists, the Krankengymnasten, the masseurs, the occupational therapists — the core readership: the therapeutic professions' practitioners, the practices' owners and employees, the clinics' staff. The doctors, the sports scientists, the sports physicians — the extended readership: the referring physicians, the sports medicine's professionals, the academic neighbours. The twelve-times-yearly rhythm — the monthly issue — is the profession's calendar: the developments followed, the knowledge updated, the practice equipped. The price: €12.10 per single issue, €137.40 for the annual print subscription (2023 media data) — the specialist journal's pricing, the twelve issues' annual cost documented. The memberships: the IVW and the Media Database of the German Specialist Press (Deutsche Fachpresse) — the circulation audited, the professional community joined, the trade press's standards kept.

History

Physiotherapie's history reaches back approximately to 1948 — the 75th volume year in 2023 — placing it among the German physiotherapy press's oldest titles. The post-war founding context: the German physiotherapy's reconstruction, the associations' formation (the later Physio Deutschland founded November 1949 as the central association of the Krankengymnastik state associations), the profession's rebuilding — the journal born with the profession's new beginning. The Krankengymnastik era — the profession's early name — is the journal's first decades: the gymnastic-therapeutic tradition, the medical auxiliary's role. The physiotherapy era — the profession's modern name — is the journal's recent decades: the academic aspirations, the evidence-based practice, the professionalisation. The Richard Pflaum Verlag — the Munich specialist publisher's house — built the journal into the profession's leading title over the 75 years, the family enterprise's physiotherapy flagship. The 2026 compact media data — the pt-Podcast, the ePaper, the standalone newsletters, the practice-equipment supplements — shows the journal's digital expansion: the 75-year-old print title's multimedia platform. The pt-Podcast — the journal's audio extension — reaches the therapists on the commute: the clinical topics discussed, the experts interviewed. The ePaper — the digital edition — serves the screen readers: the print issue's content on the tablet. The standalone newsletters — the €5,990–€24,990 advertiser products — are the B2B marketing: the industry's messages in the journal's trusted channel. The practice-equipment specials — the "Praxis Ausstattung" — address the practice founders and renovators: the devices, the furnishings, the investments. The publisher's address — the Lazarettstraße 4, 80636 München — anchors the journal in the Munich specialist-press quarter, the Bavarian capital's medical publishing tradition housing the 75-year-old title.

Coverage and Content

The journal's programme is the physiotherapy's science and practice — the transfer aim expanded. The transfer of scientific knowledge into the practice: the most important aim — the Wissenschaftstransfer — the research results translated for the practitioners, the studies' findings made actionable, the evidence base built for the everyday therapy. The departments — the Heftrubriken — structure the transfer: the clinical reports, the professional news, the practice management, the product information. The evidence-based editorial environment — the "seriöses und evidenzbasiertes redaktionelles Umfeld" — is the advertisers' promise: the physiotherapy industry's products presented in the trusted context, the device manufacturers and training providers reaching the profession. The current developments — the Professionalisierungsprozess — are the journal's political beat: the physiotherapy's journey from the ancillary profession to the academic healthcare profession, the 75 years' arc from the 1948 Krankengymnastik to the 2023 physiotherapy science. The transfer of scientific knowledge into the practice: the most important aim — the evidence-based reporting across all departments. The current developments: the profession's professionalisation process — the academisation, the direct access, the blank prescription debates — accompanied with the objective, well-founded and independent reporting. The clinical: the case reports (the hip-arthrosis patient in the health-professions university outpatient clinic) — the interventions' feasibility in the academic setting, the single cases' effects documented — the practice's evidence base built case by case. The professional: the associations' news, the health politics. The journalism is the trade press's: the serious and evidence-based — the advertisers' trusted environment, the profession's reliable companion, the 75 years' editorial continuity. The podcast: the pt-Podcast — the journal's audio, the therapists' commute companion, the clinical topics and expert interviews in the ear. The ePaper: the digital edition — the print issue's 1:1.

Organization and Ownership

Physiotherapie is published by the Richard Pflaum Verlag GmbH & Co. KG in Munich — the Lazarettstraße 4, 80636 München. The editorial leadership: Dr. Tanja Boßmann, Redaktionsleiterin (tanja.bossmann@pflaum.de) — the journal's editorial head, the content's curator. The redaction: Alexander Bauer, Alexander Eisenreich, Claudia Becker, Leah Seifert — the Munich team's journalists. The advertising: Karla Köhler (media sales) and Florian Beisser (Leiter Mediavertrieb) — the industry's contacts, the media-data's names. The distribution: Magdalena Roitzsch, kundenservice@pflaum.de — the subscribers' service. The publisher: the Richard Pflaum Verlag GmbH & Co. KG — the Munich specialist publisher, the journal's 75-year home. The commercial model is the specialist-press subscription journal's: the €137.40 annual print subscription, the €12.10 single issues — the readers' payments — the physiotherapy industry's advertising — the 2026 compact media data's standalone newsletters (€5,990–€24,990) and practice-equipment specials — the B2B revenues. The IVW and Deutsche Fachpresse memberships certify the circulation and the professional standing: the audited numbers, the specialist-press community. The IVW and Deutsche Fachpresse memberships certify the circulation and the professional standing. Detailed circulation figures beyond the "highest-circulation" claim are not publicly confirmed in the sources available.

Digital Presence

The journal's portal is physiotherapie.de — the ePaper, the pt-Podcast, the newsletters, the practice-equipment specials — the 75-year-old journal's digital home, serving the German-speaking physiotherapists online. The Pflaum Verlag's media data — the 2026 compact PDF — documents the digital products: the standalone newsletter, the ePaper specials, the podcast. In the German physiotherapy-press landscape Physiotherapie occupies the highest-circulation practice-journal pole: the 1948-founded Pflaum journal — the 75 volumes, the ISSN 1614-0397, the IVW membership — from Munich's Lazarettstraße to the German-speaking physiotherapists, in print and on physiotherapie.de, for the profession's practice and professionalisation. The highest-circulation claim — the "auflagenstärkste Fachzeitschrift für Physiotherapeuten im deutschsprachigen Raum" — is the market leadership: the profession's most-read journal, the advertisers' first choice. The 75-year history — the 1948 founding through the 2023 75th volume year — is the institutional memory: the physiotherapy's post-war development documented in one journal's archive. The Munich specialist-press quarter — the Lazarettstraße's Pflaum house — is the journal's home: the Bavarian medical publishing's tradition.