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.

35,183 PAPERS · PAGE 260 OF 704 · NEWEST FIRST

• SLPRCT2016Culturally sensitive adaptation of the concept of relational communication therapy as a support to language development: An exploratory study in collaboration with a Tanzanian orphanage.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir KommunikasieafwykingsTwelve Tanzanian orphanage caregiver students scored higher on a competency test after a four-module communication training. The study did not test children's language outcomes, so it cannot show that caregiver training helps children.
• PTOther2017An estimation of knee and ankle joint angles during extension phase of standing up motion performed using an inertial sensor.Journal of physical therapy scienceA chest-worn inertial sensor estimated knee and ankle angles during standing up in seven healthy men with errors of 2.32 to 4.58 degrees. It was usable for angle analysis, not center of mass estimation.
• PTOTOther2017Dynamic arm study: quantitative description of upper extremity function and activity of boys and men with duchenne muscular dystrophy.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationBoys and men with Duchenne muscular dystrophy had weaker arm muscles and smaller active joint angles than healthy peers. Deltoid and biceps torque loss was associated with difficulty lifting and bending the elbow.
• SLPSystematic Review2017Effects of Hearing Impairment and Hearing Aid Amplification on Listening Effort: A Systematic Review.Ear and hearingHearing loss may increase effort for understanding speech, but only brain-wave studies showed this consistently. Hearing aids did not show a reliable reduction in effort.
• SLPOther2017Oscillatory Onset and Offset in Young Vocally Healthy Adults Across Various Measurement Methods.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice FoundationDifferent ways of timing vocal fold vibration onset gave partly overlapping values in healthy young adults, and onset timing did not track offset timing. Choose the measurement based on whether the question is about onset or offset.
• PTOther2017Three-dimensional evaluation of postural stability in Parkinson's disease with mobile technology.NeuroRehabilitationAn iPad app at the waist recorded greater sway in Parkinson's than controls across six balance tests, especially eyes closed on foam and tandem on foam. It can quantify direction-specific balance problems, not prove treatment works.
• PTOTRCT2017The effects of occupation-centered activity program on fall-related factors and quality of life in patients with dementia.Journal of physical therapy scienceDementia patients in a daytime care center who added an occupation-centered program to their medication showed significantly better balance, leg strength, fall confidence, and quality of life than those on medication alone. The group also had larger improvements in cognitive test scores.
• SLPCase-Control2017Formal Thought Disorder and Executive Functioning in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Old Leads and New Avenues.Journal of autism and developmental disordersChildren and adolescents with high-functioning autism showed more disorganized speech on a story task and reported more odd speech than matched controls. Within the autism group, weaker verbal working memory was linked to more disorganized speech, not response inhibition.
• SLPCohort2017A Longitudinal Investigation of the Home Literacy Environment and Shared Book Reading in Young Children With Hearing Loss.Ear and hearingParents of children with hearing loss found shared book reading harder at 24 months, and those children had lower language scores. For children with hearing loss, early interactive reading and child enjoyment linked to later language, but causation is not shown.
• SLPRCT2017The Effects of Service-Delivery Model and Purchase Price on Hearing-Aid Outcomes in Older Adults: A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial.American journal of audiologyOlder adults who had never used hearing aids improved more on self-reported benefit with audiologist fitting or self-selected devices than with placebo devices. The two fitting methods did not differ on that outcome. Price did not change self-reported benefit.
• PTOTOther2017Inter-rater reliability of kinesthetic measurements with the KINARM robotic exoskeleton.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationWhen different robot operators set up the same participant, scores for matching arm movement were similar. The test can be used consistently by different operators, but it did not test treatment effects or daily function.
• SLPOther2017Attempting to "Increase Intake from the Input": Attention and Word Learning in Children with Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disordersPointing to the mouth did not help children learn a new word in the first experiment. Children with autism looked more at the target when the object was held next to the mouth in the second experiment.
• PTMeta-Analysis2017Bone Mass in Boys with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersBoys with autism spectrum disorder on risperidone had lower trabecular bone density and bone strength at the ultra-distal radius than boys with other psychiatric disorders. Total body less head and spine bone scans were not significant.
• SLPOther2017Effects of Long-Term Musical Training on Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials.Ear and hearingAdults with long-term musical training told apart small pitch and sound-quality changes better than non-musicians, and their brain responses to those changes were larger. The study included adults described as normal hearing, not a training trial, so it does not prove music improves hearing.
• PTOther2017Instrumented balance and walking assessments in persons with multiple sclerosis show strong test-retest reliability.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationWearable-sensor quiet-standing and extended Timed Up and Go measures gave similar results across days in people with MS, except some sway frequency measures. They did not match self-reported balance confidence or walking ability.
• PTCase-Control2017Lower-limb muscle strength according to bodyweight and muscle mass among middle age patients with type 2 diabetes without diabetic neuropathy.Journal of physical therapy scienceMiddle-aged adults with type 2 diabetes, without neuropathy, did not differ in absolute knee and ankle strength from controls. Strength relative to bodyweight and leg muscle quality were lower.
• OTCohort2017Child and Adult Factors Related to Quality of Life in Adults with Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disordersQuality of life ratings for adults who could self-report, and for their families or care staff, were mostly near population averages. Their own and caregiver views often disagreed, especially on social life.
• PTOTOther2017The Impact of Shoulder Abduction Loading on Volitional Hand Opening and Grasping in Chronic Hemiparetic Stroke.Neurorehabilitation and neural repairLifting the affected arm against gravity worsened hand opening in moderate chronic stroke and made severely impaired participants close their hand instead of opening it. Controls were unaffected. Total maximal grasping force did not change, but involuntary grasping force rose with loading.
• SLPCohort2017Acquisition of voice onset time in toddlers at high and low risk for autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchToddlers at high risk for autism produced similar words, errors, and speech timing as controls. At 36 months, children with autism were less likely to make measurably separate /b/ and /p/ sounds. This was a small speech difference, not a tested treatment effect.
• PTOther2017Physical interface dynamics alter how robotic exosuits augment human movement: implications for optimizing wearable assistive devices.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationIn one healthy walker, a soft ankle exosuit absorbed power at the shank and boot interfaces, then returned much of it, delaying push-off assistance. This is device mechanics, not clinical effectiveness.
• PTRCT2017Brain-Computer Interface application: auditory serial interface to control a two-class motor-imagery-based wheelchair.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationHealthy adults who passed a brain-control test steered a wheelchair through spoken cues. They chose commands correctly often, but some paths took over 15 minutes. This is feasibility in able-bodied users, not evidence it helps patients.
• SLPOther2017Multisensory speech perception in autism spectrum disorder: From phoneme to whole-word perception.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchAutistic children recognized speech less accurately than peers, especially whole words in noise. Seeing the mouth still helped identify individual speech sounds, but whole-word benefit was smaller at the hardest noise level.
• Survey2017Parental attributions for positive behaviours in children with autism spectrum disorder.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDRParents of children with autism spectrum disorder rated their child's positive behaviour as less due to the child's own stable traits than parents of comparison children. In ASD families, seeing positive behaviour as stable was linked to closer parent-child relationships, with small effects.
• OTCase Series2017Effects of an abdominal muscle exercise program in people with intellectual disabilities residing in a residential care facility.Journal of physical therapy scienceTen people with intellectual disabilities did abdominal exercises twice weekly for 12 weeks. Average weight fell from 60.8 kg to 59.0 kg, sit-ups rose from 29.6 to 34.8, and sit-and-reach rose from 4.3 cm to 5.6 cm. No control group limits certainty.
• PTOther2017Changes in cardiopulmonary function according to posture during recovery after maximal exercise.Journal of physical therapy scienceAfter maximal exercise, oxygen uptake, breathing rate, and heart rate did not differ by posture in 15 healthy young men. Air moved per minute was lower with trunk forward leaning at 5 minutes.
• SLPSurvey2016Ototoxicity management: An investigation into doctors' knowledge and practices, and the roles of audiologists in a tertiary hospital.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir KommunikasieafwykingsMost doctors in one South African tertiary hospital did not routinely disclose ototoxicity risks or refer patients to audiologists, while strongly agreeing audiologists should monitor hearing and support patients.
• SLPOther2017The effect of methylphenidate-OROS® on the narrative ability of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir KommunikasieafwykingsMethylphenidate-OROS did not improve word output, vocabulary variety or sentence complexity in 12 children with ADHD and language impairment who were also receiving speech-language therapy. It did improve overall story quality and event linking.
• PTOther2017Effect of standing postural deviations on trunk and hip muscle activity.Journal of physical therapy scienceSway-back posture raised rectus abdominis activity and lowered internal oblique, iliopsoas, and gluteus maximus activity in 17 healthy adult men with no low back pain history. Lordosis raised lumbar multifidus activity and lowered lower gluteus maximus activity.
• PTOther2017Gait initiation and termination strategies in patients with Prader-Willi syndrome.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationAdults with Prader-Willi syndrome started and stopped walking with slower weight shifts and longer transition times than healthy adults. Compared with obese controls without PWS, they still showed slower side-to-side shifts when beginning to walk.
• PTOther2017Effects of kinesio taping to the quadriceps femoris muscles on functions of elderly women.Journal of physical therapy scienceElderly women with knee osteoarthritis who added kinesio taping to exercise had lower post scores on a knee function questionnaire and timed tests than those who exercised alone.
• RCT2017Caregiver-Teacher Concordance of Challenging Behaviors in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Served in Community Mental Health Settings.Journal of autism and developmental disordersCaregivers rated challenging behaviors in children with autism spectrum disorder as more intense than teachers did. Agreement was low, and disagreement was greatest when children had additional psychiatric diagnoses, especially ADHD or ODD.
• SLPOther2017The diagnosis of autism and autism spectrum disorder in low- and middle-income countries: Experience from Jamaica.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceJamaican children already classified as having autism by the CARS all matched ADOS, and most matched ADI-R and ADOS-2. The study did not include children without autism or milder symptoms, so it cannot show the CARS is accurate for all diagnoses.
• PTOther2017Comparison of temporal changes in trunk flexion angle and gluteal pressure during continuous sitting.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn 10 young men sitting continuously for 30 min, peak gluteal pressure stayed about the same, while trunk flexion angle increased from 2.5° to 5.2°.
• SLPCase-Control2017No evidence of early head circumference enlargements in children later diagnosed with autism in Israel.Molecular autismIn children later diagnosed with autism, head circumference did not show early overgrowth compared with matched controls. Controls had larger head circumference and weight at birth and 3 months, and head size did not relate to autism severity or verbal status.
• PTOther2017Feature selection for elderly faller classification based on wearable sensors.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationSmaller feature sets from wearable gait sensors outperformed full-feature models for classifying older fallers, but repeated testing detected only 44% of fallers, so it is not ready for clinical fall screening.
• SLPRCT2017Effects of lingual strength training on lingual strength and articulator function in stroke patients with dysarthria.Journal of physical therapy scienceStroke patients with dysarthria who added tongue strength training to usual physical and occupational therapy improved tongue pressure and the /tə/ syllable rate more than usual therapy alone. Only 16 patients were studied, and other speech measures did not differ.
• PTPilot2017The effects of progressive neuromuscular training on postural balance and functionality in elderly patients with knee osteoarthritis: a pilot study.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn 11 older adults with knee osteoarthritis, 8 weeks of supervised strength, balance and proprioception training was followed by improved balance and self-reported pain, stiffness and function; gains remained 4 weeks after training. Without a control group, this cannot prove the training caused them.
• SLPOther2017Infants' and Adults' Use of Temporal Cues in Consonant Discrimination.Ear and hearingThree-month-olds could discriminate consonant categories using only slow temporal cues, but only 13 of 26 did in quiet. Adults did so in quiet, and fewer adults passed in noise.
• Other2017Latent constructs underlying sensory subtypes in children with autism: A preliminary study.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchSensory questionnaire scores in children with autism grouped into two patterns: taste/smell and under-responsive/seeking together, and low energy/weak plus auditory filtering. This preliminary analysis found the pattern in both samples, but did not test treatment.
• PTOther2017The effects of task-oriented training with altered sensory input on balance in patients with chronic stroke.Journal of physical therapy scienceTask-oriented training with altered sensory input, alternating firm and soft surfaces, added to usual physical therapy gave a higher Berg Balance Scale score than usual therapy alone. Limit-of-stability and balance-confidence scores did not differ.
• PTPilot2017A muscle-driven approach to restore stepping with an exoskeleton for individuals with paraplegia.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationThree men with motor complete spinal cord injury walked a lab walkway without prior practice using a new muscle-driven exoskeleton, but speeds were 0.03 to 0.06 m/s and Subjects B and C had poor knee flexion or foot drag.
• PTOther2017Low to moderate relationships between gait and postural responses in Parkinson disease.Journal of rehabilitation medicineIn 111 people with Parkinson disease, walking speed and step length were related to reactive balance, but not strongly. Test reactive balance separately.
• PTOTOther2017Design and Development of a Telerehabilitation Platform for Patients With Phantom Limb Pain: A User-Centered Approach.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologiesPatients and therapists shaped a mobile mirror-therapy telerehab app for phantom limb pain. Their requirements and field-test complaints drove repeated redesigns. This paper describes the build, not whether the app reduces pain or improves adherence.
• Other2017Susceptibility to Ebbinghaus and Müller-Lyer illusions in autistic children: a comparison of three different methods.Molecular autismAutistic children and typically developing children showed similar susceptibility to the Ebbinghaus and Müller-Lyer illusions when a method reduced guessing. In an adjustment task, autistic children showed a stronger Müller-Lyer effect, but that difference was absent when guessing was reduced.
• PTRCT2017Effects of exercise on brain activity during walking in older adults: a randomized controlled trial.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationThe supervised program did not produce a greater increase in brain activity during walking than control after 3 months in 24 older women, although both groups showed increases in different brain areas. Gait changes were mixed: longer right step length and lower cadence.
• Narrative Review2017Neurorehabilitation in upper limb amputation: understanding how neurophysiological changes can affect functional rehabilitation.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationNo new clinical finding is reported.
• SLPNarrative Review2017Short-Term Memory and Aphasia: From Theory to Treatment.Seminars in speech and languageVerbal short-term memory is commonly impaired in aphasia and may help characterize semantic versus phonological deficits. Treatment evidence is from case studies, so larger studies are needed.
• SLPOther2017Leveraging blood serotonin as an endophenotype to identify de novo and rare variants involved in autism.Molecular autismWhen autism families were split by blood serotonin, genes hit by new variants in probands with normal serotonin lined up with known autism risk genes; genes in high-serotonin probands lined up with a different biological group. No treatment or clinical test was studied.
• PTOther2017Effects of joint immobilization and hindlimb unloading on collagen fibers of soleus muscles in rats.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn rats, adding unloading to ankle fixation reduced ankle bend more than fixation alone, and the tissue measurements showed more Type I collagen in the combined group.
• SLPPilot2017Parents are aware of the ototoxic effects of chemotherapy in paediatrics undergoing cancer treatment - Professional versus parental views: A pilot study.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir Kommunikasieafwykings71% of parents were informed about possible negative effects of chemotherapy, but only 55% of oncologists reported informing parents about hearing impact, and 45% never referred for audiology.