Cardiac conditions

This Editorial introduces another of Journal of Physiotherapy's article collections.1,2 These are collections of papers on a particular topic, published in the Journal of Physiotherapy within the past decade and compiled to: facilitate access to important recent findings on the topic; highlight trends in research designs, methods, populations and interventions; and suggest avenues for further research.The studies in this article collection relate to physiotherapy management of cardiac conditions.In 2011, there was a call for physiotherapists to become more engaged in cardiology research.3 The Editorial highlighted issues including the lack of research in this area being led by physiotherapists, despite their extensive training in prevention and management of risk factors for coronary disease.Much important research into physiotherapy for people with heart conditions has been published since then.This article collection focuses on aspects of cardiac rehabilitation from both centre-based and home-based perspectives, as well as reviewing progress in perioperative care, complementing the Editorial on perioperative physiotherapy published in 2022.4 The important advances that have subsequently been published in Journal of Physiotherapy are summarised below and collated as free full-text articles in the online article collection.Importantly, each paper has clear implications for clinical physiotherapists, which are identifiable in the paper's 'What this study adds' summary box.