Uneven Landscape of Cognitive-Motor Dual-Task Research Across Rehabilitation Fields: A State-of-the-Field and Pattern Analysis.
Jun Woo Kwon
PMID 42326592WHAT IT FOUND
This is a review that counts cognitive-motor dual-task publications across rehabilitation fields, not a study of patients.
It reports no patients, no interventions and no outcomes.
What this paper is
This is a state-of-the-field review, not a study. The authors ran a scoping search of the literature from 2010 to 2025 and counted how many cognitive-motor dual-task publications sit in each rehabilitation domain: 2519 records in total, of which 2081 (82.6%) are in neurologic or geriatric rehabilitation, 216 (8.6%) pediatric, 75 (3.0%) sports, 32 (1.3%) chronic pain, 31 (1.2%) musculoskeletal and 12 (0.5%) cardiopulmonary. The rest of the paper is the authors' argument about why that imbalance exists, built from existing theories, earlier reviews and their own reasoning about paradigms, outcome sensitivity, measurement standards and implementation barriers. It reports no patients, no interventions and no outcomes, and the recommendations in its tables are proposals about what future research should do, not tested treatments. There is no clinical finding here to act on.
Declared interests
The authors state they have no financial or nonfinancial disclosures to make in relation to this project. They also declare that ChatGPT was used to refine grammar and language, and that the author reviewed and edited the content and takes full responsibility for it.
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