THE INDEX

Every paper we have read

Each one summarised from the full article, not its abstract, and kept only if it speaks to physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech-language pathology or nursing. Newest first.

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• SLPOther2016Individual Differences in Auditory Brainstem Response Wave Characteristics: Relations to Different Aspects of Peripheral Hearing Loss.Trends in hearingABR growth ratios may help separate hair-cell loss from auditory nerve loss, but measurements in 30 listeners did not show a clear link to the earliest nerve response. This metric is not ready for clinical diagnosis.
• PTOTOther2017Differences in attention, hand dexterity, and lower extremity activities in the presence or absence of a time limit.Journal of physical therapy scienceHealthy college students scored higher on a trail-making task and completed more pegboards and sit-to-stand cycles when their own previous time was imposed as a limit. This tested simple tasks in healthy adults, not stroke rehabilitation.
• SLPOther2017Cognitive task demands and discourse performance after traumatic brain injury.International journal of language & communication disordersAdults with brain injury used fewer words about thoughts and feelings and spoke more slowly than peers. Raters judged samples with more such words as more socially acceptable. Banning common words reduced mental state talk and slowed speech in both groups.
• SLPOther2017A Path Model of Expressive Vocabulary Skills in Initially Preverbal Preschool Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersIn preverbal preschool children with ASD, intentional communication, diversity of key consonants, and parent responses to the child's focus predicted later expressive vocabulary. Receptive vocabulary did not explain these links.
• PTOTOther2017Effects of measurement posture and stimulation intensity on the nociceptive flexion reflex (RIII reflex).Journal of physical therapy scienceSitting required less electrical current to trigger the leg withdrawal reflex than lying prone. However, participants reported feeling more pain in the prone position despite needing stronger stimulation. The reflex muscle response size depended only on how strong the stimulation was, not on the body position used.
• SLPCohort2017Dichotic Digits Test Performance Across the Ages: Results From Two Large Epidemiologic Cohort Studies.Ear and hearingAcross 3655 adults, free recall Dichotic Digits Test scores varied widely and were lower with older age, male sex, lower education, worse hearing and cognitive impairment; right ear directed recall was often 100% correct.
• SLPCohort2017Birth outcomes among US women with intellectual and developmental disabilities.Disability and health journalWomen with intellectual and developmental disabilities had significantly higher odds of preterm birth, low birth weight, and stillbirth compared to other women. This risk persisted even after adjusting for age, race, income, and comorbidities. Clinicians should anticipate these adverse outcomes in this population.
• OTOther2017The Psychometric Properties of a New Measure of Sensory Behaviors in Autistic Children.Journal of autism and developmental disordersParents' reports on the Sensory Behavior Questionnaire captured sensory behaviors and their daily-life impact in autistic children. Scores separated autistic children from typical peers and added information beyond the Short Sensory Profile.
• PTOther2017The reliability and validity of the Korean version of the Upper Limb Functional Index.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn 49 outpatients with chronic upper limb problems, the Korean ULFI gave stable scores over 3 days and agreed with Korean DASH. It is usable for measuring current limitation, but not yet tested for treatment change.
• SLPCase-Control2017Atypical Processing of Gaze Cues and Faces Explains Comorbidity between Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).Journal of autism and developmental disordersChildren with autism, with or without ADHD, had atypical brain responses to faces and gaze cues. ADHD alone did not change these brain responses, but children with ADHD were slower to respond, especially when the cue did not point to the target.
• SLPSurvey2017Behavioral Profiles of Children With Williams Syndrome From Spain and the United States: Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences.American journal on intellectual and developmental disabilitiesWhen compared with children in their own country, Spanish and US children with Williams syndrome showed similar behavioral problem patterns. Spanish parents reported higher raw problem scores, and social problems remained the main elevated difference after country norms.
• OTCohort2017Participation in recreational activities buffers the impact of perceived stress on quality of life in adults with autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchIn adults with autism, higher perceived stress was linked to lower quality of life. The link was weaker for adults taking part in recreational activities at least weekly; social activities did not show this pattern.
• PTRCT2017Effects of high intensity laser therapy on pain and function of patients with chronic back pain.Journal of physical therapy scienceAdding high-intensity laser therapy to conservative physical therapy for four weeks was linked with lower pain and disability scores than conservative physical therapy alone in 20 patients with chronic back pain.
• SLPOther2017Development of International Terminology and Definitions for Texture-Modified Foods and Thickened Fluids Used in Dysphagia Management: The IDDSI Framework.DysphagiaA shared IDDSI framework gives texture-modified foods and thickened drinks common names, colors, and simple syringe and fork tests. Use it to reduce label confusion, not because each level has proven therapeutic thickness.
• PTOTCase Report2017Overground vs. treadmill-based robotic gait training to improve seated balance in people with motor-complete spinal cord injury: a case report.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationOverground robotic gait training (Ekso) engaged trunk muscles and improved seated balance in three people with motor-complete spinal cord injury. Treadmill-based training (Lokomat) did not engage trunk muscles or improve seated balance.
• SLPCase-Control2017A Retrospective Video Analysis of Canonical Babbling and Volubility in Infants with Fragile X Syndrome at 9-12 Months of Age.Journal of autism and developmental disordersIn home videos at 9 to 12 months, none of 10 infants later diagnosed with fragile X met the usual babbling stage, while 8 of 14 typical infants did. They also vocalized less. This may help flag early language risk, but it does not diagnose.
• OTSLPOther2017Emotion Perception Mediates the Predictive Relationship Between Verbal Ability and Functional Outcome in High-Functioning Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersIn high-functioning adults with autism, better emotion perception and verbal fluency were linked with better adaptive functioning. Emotion perception was part of the link between verbal ability and everyday functioning.
• OTPilot2017Body-Machine Interface Enables People With Cervical Spinal Cord Injury to Control Devices With Available Body Movements: Proof of Concept.Neurorehabilitation and neural repairWith practice, eight people with cervical spinal cord injury learned to move a computer cursor using remaining shoulder movements, becoming faster and more accurate in a small proof of concept study.
• SLPRCT2017Parent-delivered early intervention in infants at risk for ASD: Effects on electrophysiological and habituation measures of social attention.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchInfants at high familial risk for autism who received 10 weekly parent-mediated interaction visits showed faster habituation to faces and greater frontal brain activity than infants who only received monitoring. These were brain and attention measures, not clinical symptoms.
• OTSurvey2017Disparities in receipt of family planning services by disability status: New estimates from the National Survey of Family Growth.Disability and health journalIn a national survey, women with disabilities reported receiving any family planning service less often than women without disabilities, especially those aged 25-44, unmarried, with prior births, non-Hispanic Black, or lower income.
• PTOther2017Effect of Neuro-Development Treatment on motor development in preterm infants.Journal of physical therapy scienceLow-birth-weight preterm infants assigned to general NICU nursing plus NDT scored higher on motor performance at post-conceptional age 40 weeks than those assigned to general NICU nursing alone. General NICU nursing was given to all, so NDT's separate effect cannot be isolated.
• SLPOther2017Using the Borg CR10 Physical Exertion Scale to Measure Patient-perceived Vocal Effort Pre and Post Treatment.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice FoundationIn 36 adults with phonotraumatic voice disorders, an anchored Borg CR10 captured lower perceived vocal effort after four resonant voice therapy sessions, and it matched VHI item 14 weakly before therapy and moderately after therapy.
• SLPOther2017The comprehension of sentences with unaccusative verbs in aphasia: a test of the intervener hypothesis.AphasiologyPeople with agrammatic Broca's aphasia understood simple sentences with unaccusative verbs well, but failed to understand the same verbs when they appeared inside subject relative clauses. This suggests that an intervening noun phrase blocks their ability to link the verb to its object.
• PTRCT2017Auto detection and segmentation of daily living activities during a Timed Up and Go task in people with Parkinson's disease using multiple inertial sensors.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationAfter adjustments for Parkinson's movement patterns, wearable sensor algorithms detected standing, sitting, walking and turning correctly in all 432 tested activity instances during a Timed Up and Go task in 12 people with early disease.
• SLPCohort2016Evidence for a Right-Ear Advantage in Newborn Hearing Screening Results.Trends in hearingNewborns who failed one ear first passed the right ear more often (235 of 387) than the left (152 of 387), especially when the right ear was tested first.
• SLPPilot2016A Flexible Question-and-Answer Task for Measuring Speech Understanding.Trends in hearingA new question-answer speech test performed well in young adults with normal hearing, even with multiple talkers and competing conversations. It may help assess real-world listening, but it was not tested in patients.
• PTOTSLPCohort2017Rehabilitation in a convalescent rehabilitation ward following an acute ward improves functional recovery and mortality for hip fracture patients: a sequence in a single hospital.Journal of physical therapy scienceHip fracture patients who moved to a convalescent rehabilitation ward within the same hospital had higher discharge independence scores and home discharge rates than those discharged directly from the acute ward. One-year mortality did not differ significantly between the two groups.
• PTOther2017Peripheral circulation indicators in veteran trail runners.Journal of physical therapy scienceSeven veteran trail runners showed a short-term drop in finger blood flow in a simulated altitude chamber, then an increase. A similar pattern appeared during mid-altitude training and before competition.
• PTOTOther20173D motion analysis of the wrist splint effect to wrist joint movement.Journal of physical therapy scienceWearing a fitted wrist splint while opening bottle caps increased wrist angle values in young adults for each cap size tested. This was a small laboratory test in normal wrists, not proof splints prevent injury.
• SLPPilot2017An exploratory study of the influence of load and practice on segmental and articulatory variability in children with speech sound disorders.Clinical linguistics & phoneticsRetrieval made lip and jaw movement more variable than imitation in all nine children. Imitation practice over five sessions did not clearly reduce movement variability, but retrieval practice reduced it for some children with speech sound disorder.
• PTRCT2017Influence of functional task-oriented mental practice on the gait of transtibial amputees: a randomized, clinical trial.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationAmputees who imagined walking tasks and also received gait training showed a lower heel-contact force peak and longer prosthetic support after intervention. The non-motor mental practice group did not change. Mental practice alone was not tested.
• PTOther20172-dimensional analysis of low limb taping methods on ambulation for stroke patients.Journal of physical therapy scienceStroke patients who had Kinesio or McConnell taping plus PNF had longer affected-side stride length than those who had PNF alone. Taping was added to therapy, so its separate effect cannot be known.
• SLPOther2017Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) in Phelan-McDermid Syndrome: Validity and Suggestions for Use in Minimally Verbal Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersIn 18 minimally verbal children with Phelan-McDermid syndrome, LENA often missed child speech. Its speech/non-speech ratio matched human coding and related to a caregiver language score. Use LENA cautiously in older children or children with high repetitive speech.
• PTOTSystematic Review2017Is robot-assisted therapy effective in upper extremity recovery in early stage stroke? -a systematic literature review.Journal of physical therapy scienceRobot-assisted therapy matched conventional therapy for upper limb recovery in early stroke, but most studies added robots to usual care rather than replacing it. The benefit of the robot itself remains unclear, though 3D devices may aid motor function.
• SLPCohort2017Unilateral Hearing Loss: Understanding Speech Recognition and Localization Variability-Implications for Cochlear Implant Candidacy.Ear and hearingAdults with one deaf ear struggled with speech in noise and localization compared to two-eared listeners. However, those deaf since birth localized better than those who lost hearing recently. Better-ear hearing levels predicted speech difficulties, suggesting candidacy for cochlear implants depends on specific functional deficits rather than just the presence of unilateral loss.
• SLPOther2017Going wireless and booth-less for hearing testing in industry.International journal of audiologyIn brewery workers tested in ordinary rooms by untrained operators, the wireless headset gave repeatable hearing thresholds close to those from a mobile sound booth. The rooms did not meet stricter ambient noise standards.
• SLPCase Report2017Autism Spectrum Disorder Symptoms in Infants with Fragile X Syndrome: A Prospective Case Series.Journal of autism and developmental disordersIn a small series of infants with fragile X syndrome, early autism features were common in infancy, but by the second year they were mainly seen in those later diagnosed with autism. Social communication differences were noted in the case summaries.
• PTOTSLPNarrative Review2017Virtual Reality and Serious Games in Neurorehabilitation of Children and Adults: Prevention, Plasticity, and Participation.Pediatric physical therapy : the official publication of the Section on Pediatrics of the American Physical Therapy AssociationVirtual reality and serious games improve balance and motor function in children and adults with neurological conditions, but evidence for participation and fitness gains is mixed. Dose and system type matter, yet clinical adoption is hindered by lack of training and clear guidelines.
• SLPOther2017A Causal and Mediation Analysis of the Comorbidity Between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).Journal of autism and developmental disordersIn children and young people with ASD or ADHD, social communication difficulties linked directly to inattention and impulsivity, while repetitive behaviour linked to hyperactivity. These are exploratory associations, not evidence that treating one symptom will improve the other.
• PTOTOther2017The effects of training using EMG biofeedback on stroke patients upper extremity functions.Journal of physical therapy scienceAdding EMG biofeedback to traditional stroke rehabilitation did not clearly improve upper-limb or independence scores beyond traditional rehabilitation alone in 30 chronic stroke outpatients.
• SLPOther2017Assessment of Autistic Traits in Children Aged 2 to 4½ Years With the Preschool Version of the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS-P): Findings from Japan.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchMother ratings did not separate autism from other clinical problems well, but the SRS-P gave stable parent and teacher ratings of autistic traits in Japanese preschoolers. Use it as a trait measure, not a diagnosis.
• SLPCohort2017Auditory Brainstem Response Altered in Humans With Noise Exposure Despite Normal Outer Hair Cell Function.Ear and hearingYoung Veterans reporting the highest lifetime noise exposure and non Veterans reporting firearm use had smaller earliest ABR wave I responses than lower exposure groups, despite normal pure-tone hearing and outer hair cell function. Later ABR waves were unchanged.
• OTOther2017Quantification of task-dependent cortical activation evoked by robotic continuous wrist joint manipulation in chronic hemiparetic stroke.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationAfter stroke, people with severe sensory impairment had reduced brain responses to robotic wrist movement. People with mild impairment showed reduced responses during active wrist tasks. The findings describe sensory pathway damage, not treatment benefit.
• SLPOther2017Acoustic Measures of Voice and Physiologic Measures of Autonomic Arousal during Speech as a Function of Cognitive Load.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice FoundationWhen healthy speakers named colour words that conflicted with their font colour, sweat-gland activity increased and voice quality measures changed slightly. Pitch and sound level did not change, and the overall pattern was weak.
• SLPCohort2017Predicting Intentional Communication in Preverbal Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersMotor imitation at study entry was linked to more intentional communication 12 months later in preverbal preschoolers with autism, after initial communication was considered. Parent physical play and spoken replies were not linked to later intentional communication.
• PTOther2017The reliability and validity of the Korean version of the spine functional index.Journal of physical therapy scienceKorean spine questionnaire scores showed very high agreement when repeated after 7 days (0.94 out of 1) and lined up with established back and neck disability scores. It can help physical therapists rate whole-spine function, but change over time was not tested.
• SLPSurvey2017"They must understand we are people": Pregnancy and maternity service use among signing Deaf women in Cape Town.Disability and health journalMost signing Deaf women in Cape Town attended antenatal care, but many could not understand staff. They described writing and family interpreting as inadequate, and asked for professional sign language interpreters.
• SLPOther2017The influence of scale structure and sex on parental reports of children's social (pragmatic) communication symptoms.Clinical linguistics & phoneticsParent-reported pragmatic scores did not form a separate communication profile. They aligned with language or behaviour problems differently for boys and girls, so CCC-2 scores alone do not clearly distinguish social communication disorder.
• OTCohort2017Perceived social support moderates the relationship between activities of daily living and depression after lower limb loss.Rehabilitation psychologyIn 73 people after lower-limb amputation, those who found daily activities difficult had higher depression at 12 months when they also had low social support. The study did not test whether increasing support reduces depression.
• PTOther2017Physical human-robot interaction of an active pelvis orthosis: toward ergonomic assessment of wearable robots.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationStep length and cadence were similar in five healthy adults walking on a treadmill with the hip-assistive exoskeleton, and cuff movement stayed under 1 cm. It did not test patients or treatment benefit.