Applied Evidence

Understand any paper in your field in ten minutes.

Search peer-reviewed research across physical, occupational and speech therapy. Every paper in plain language, written for your discipline — what they did, what they found, and what it does not show.

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Blood-Flow-Restriction Training vs. Heavy Resistance Exercise After ACL Reconstruction
J Orthop Sports Phys Ther · 2024 · Hansen K, Okafor T, Ruiz M, et al.
Low-load BFR training matched heavy resistance for quadriceps strength at 12 weeks with less anterior knee pain.
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Multifactorial Fall Prevention in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
J Geriatr Phys Ther · 2022 · Baptiste L, Sorensen K, Ahmed W
Multifactorial programs with a supervised balance component cut fall rate by about a fifth.
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THE PROBLEM

You don't have time to sift through millions of papers.

Between patients you get a few spare minutes, an abstract behind a paywall, and no way to tell whether the trial was on your caseload. So the literature stays a stack of things you meant to read, and practice drifts toward what you were taught rather than what has since been shown.

Know in one line whether a paper is worth reading.

Every result leads with the finding, the study type and the sample — enough to tell a meta-analysis on your caseload from a case report on somebody else's without opening it.

The limits come with the finding, not after it.

Every summary names what the study does not show, rates how certain the evidence is, and lists who funded it. Those are the parts that decide whether a result applies to your caseload, so they are not buried at the bottom.

BUILT PER DISCIPLINE

Every summary is written for the discipline reading it.

An interdisciplinary TBI study means something different to the physio setting mobility goals than to the SLP making goal-setting accessible. Pick your discipline and sub-specialties at sign-up; the feed and the implications follow.

PTPhysical therapy

Loading, dosage and progression criteria — what the protocol actually was, and whether it transfers to your caseload.

Orthopedics
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Neurology
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Geriatrics
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OTOccupational therapy

Whether a finding shows up in everyday occupation or only in timed capacity testing — and what to measure to know.

Neuro Rehab
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Hand Therapy
Mental Health
Geriatrics
Work & Ergonomics
SLPSpeech-language pathology

Delivery mode, dose and generalisation to untrained items — the details that decide whether a protocol survives your clinic.

Aphasia
Dysphagia
Pediatric Speech
Voice
Fluency
AAC
YOUR LIBRARY

Keep what you will need again, and why you kept it.

Save a paper and file it into a collection, then write a private note on what made it worth keeping — the patient it applies to, what you would change, what to check. Notes are yours alone and never leave your account.

Collections, so sixty saved papers stay findable
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ACL & knee rehab2 papers
Blood-Flow-Restriction Training vs. Heavy Resistance Exercise After ACL Reconstruction
RCT · J Orthop Sports Phys Ther · 2024
Vestibular Rehabilitation for Persistent Postural-Perceptual Dizziness
RCT · Physical Therapy · 2025
Pediatric language1 paper
Parent-Implemented Language Intervention for Late-Talking Toddlers
RCT · Am J Speech Lang Pathol · 2025

Questions clinicians ask

Do you read the full text?

Yes. Each summary is written from the whole article — methods, results, tables, discussion, and the funding and conflict-of-interest declarations. A paper we cannot read in full is left out rather than summarised from its abstract, which is why the index is smaller than it could be.

What happens when a paper is retracted?

Summaries are regenerated whenever the record is amended or retracted, so the correction reaches you and a retracted paper is withdrawn rather than left standing.

Can I use this with patients?

Use it to find and triage evidence for yourself. Do not present a summary to a patient as clinical guidance, and do not enter identifiable patient information into search.

What if the full text is paywalled?

The summary and the bibliographic record are always free to read. Where the full text sits behind a paywall we link you to the publisher’s page — we do not host or bypass paywalls.

Do you offer institutional plans?

Yes — contact us and we will set one up. Shared billing for a department or clinic is arranged by hand today.

What if a summary is wrong?

Report it from the paper page and say what is wrong. We regenerate that summary against the source, then correct or remove it. Those reports are how our checks get better.

ARTICLES

The latest research, in plain language.

Peer-reviewed papers read in full and summarised for practising therapists — what was done, what it found, and what it does not show.

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A cross-sectional feasibility study of an English-language survey in Switzerland using the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System-29.

A 29-item health survey (PROMIS-29) can be feasibly administered to English speakers in Switzerland: 156 of 215 invited adults finished it, and the instrument showed acceptable reliability and validity. This is a feasibility check, not evidence that any treatment works.

Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2026
SLP
Impact of Presentation Order on Pitch Ranking Sensitivity in Cochlear Implant Users and Normal-Hearing Listeners and Its Mitigation.
Trends in hearing · 2026
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Improving an intrinsic-plus movement pattern with a reversed knitted hand function enhancement glove: a case report.
Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2026
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Effects of Dynamic Taping on Dynamic Balance and Proprioception in Recreational Athletes with Chronic Ankle Instability.
International journal of sports physical therapy · 2026
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