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 262 OF 704 · NEWEST FIRST

• OTQualitative2016Latino Families' Experiences With Autism Services: Disparities, Capabilities, and Occupational Justice.OTJR : occupation, participation and healthParents described some child improvements they linked to state-funded ABA, but most modified or opted out because required intensity, home presence, and rigid routines did not fit family life.
• SLPOther2017Is there sexual dimorphism of hyperserotonemia in autism spectrum disorder?Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchBefore puberty, more boys than girls with autism had whole blood serotonin above 270 ng/mL; after puberty, this sex difference was not seen. Serotonin levels did not link to behavior, language, or adaptive scores.
• OTSLPQualitative2017'Maybe I will give some help…. maybe not to help the eyes but different help': an analysis of care and support of children with visual impairment in community settings in Malawi.Child: care, health and developmentCarers of young Malawian children with visual impairment said play and communication were limited by eye pain, unsafe surroundings, stigma and lack of advice. They used touch, sound and routine narration to help children understand the world.
• PTCase-Control2017Locomotor circumvention strategies are altered by stroke: I. Obstacle clearance.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationPeople with chronic stroke and healthy people kept larger clearance from moving obstacles while walking or using a joystick, but some stroke walkers got closer at crossing and collided. Those with poorer walking and balance confidence tended to veer toward the obstacle side.
• Other2017Modifying upper-limb inter-joint coordination in healthy subjects by training with a robotic exoskeleton.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationIn healthy people, an arm exoskeleton that pushed joints into an unnatural pattern changed their arm coordination. After the push stopped, most kept altered coordination for at least 30 minutes. It did not teach the intended pattern, and no patients or function were tested.
• SLPOther2017Next Generation Sequencing Mitochondrial DNA Analysis in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchRare mitochondrial DNA variants were shared by affected members of ten autism families, including two variants previously seen in mitochondrial disease. This cannot show these variants cause autism or change therapy.
• SLPCase-Control2017Maternal Exposure to Childhood Abuse is Associated with Mate Selection: Implications for Autism in Offspring.Journal of autism and developmental disordersMothers who reported severe childhood abuse were more likely to have a partner with high autistic traits. Their children were also more likely to have ASD, and parents' autistic traits did not fully explain this link.
• PTOTCase-Control2017Abnormal EEG Responses to TMS During the Cortical Silent Period Are Associated With Hand Function in Chronic Stroke.Neurorehabilitation and neural repairIn chronic stroke, brain stimulation with brain-wave recording during active thumb contraction showed abnormal brain responses and a longer pause in muscle activity than controls. Hand-function links were tentative and not confirmed.
• PTPilot2017Safety of lower extremity neurodynamic exercises in adults with diabetes mellitus: a feasibility study.The Journal of manual & manipulative therapyA single session of five lower-limb neurodynamic exercises was tolerated by adults with diabetes. No neuropathic symptoms were provoked, one calf cramp resolved quickly, and treated-leg straight-leg-raise mobility increased by 5.2° and 5.3°.
• PTOther2017Reactive stepping with functional neuromuscular stimulation in response to forward-directed perturbations.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationIn one person with motor complete T4 paraplegia, implanted stimulation triggered a protective forward step after pulls above 10% body weight, but standing still required hand support and fall risk remained.
• OTSurvey2017Impact of Grandchild Caregiving on African American Grandparents.Occupational therapy in health careMost African American grandparent caregivers enjoyed caring for grandchildren. Grandchild behavioral problems were linked to negative health and leisure effects. Co-residence and daily care were linked to negative leisure effects, and co-residence was linked to negative financial impact.
• PTCase Report2017Effect of modified leg-raising exercise on the pain and pelvic angle of a patient with back pain and excessive lordosis.Journal of physical therapy scienceA patient with low back pain and excessive lordosis reported less pain and smaller pelvic tilt after a modified leg-raising exercise. This is a single case, so it cannot show the exercise works.
• SLPSurvey2017The attitudes of typically developing adolescents towards their sibling with autism spectrum disorder.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir KommunikasieafwykingsAdolescent siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder reported more positive feelings and beliefs now than they remembered when younger. Reported positive behaviour did not change.
• PTOther2017Locomotor circumvention strategies are altered by stroke: II. Postural Coordination.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationStroke survivors often used side steps, especially for moving obstacles, and showed larger body rotations and, for some obstacles, later reorientation than controls. Their strategy varied with obstacle movement and their walking speed, balance confidence and motor ability.
• PTOTMeta-Analysis2017Markerless motion capture systems as training device in neurological rehabilitation: a systematic review of their use, application, target population and efficacy.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationMost markerless motion capture rehab studies used Kinect in stroke, training upper or lower limbs. Patients improved on balance or arm tests, but few trials, low quality and varied protocols mean efficacy is not proven.
• OTOther2017A few of my favorite things: circumscribed interests in autism are not accompanied by increased attentional salience on a personalized selective attention task.Molecular autismAutistic participants ignored images of their special interests when the word task was hard, unlike neurotypical participants, who stayed distracted by interest images at every difficulty level. Reported interest strength was similar in both groups.
• SLPCohort2017Neurocognitive Correlates of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms in Children Born at Extremely Low Gestational Age.Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBPIn 10-year-olds born before 28 weeks, significant ADHD symptoms were associated with lower language, working memory, attention, visual-motor, and school scores. These links persisted for reading, spelling, and working memory after excluding children with IQ below 85.
• PTSystematic Review2017Diagnosis of Upper Quadrant Lymphedema Secondary to Cancer: Clinical Practice Guideline From the Oncology Section of the American Physical Therapy Association.Physical therapyNo single test diagnoses upper quadrant lymphedema after cancer. Use symptoms, volume measures, and bioimpedance for early cases; use ultrasound for late tissue changes. Cluster findings and keep the same method over time.
• PTCase Report2017The effects of bandaging with an additional pad and taping on secondary arm lymphedema in a patient after mastectomy.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn one patient after mastectomy, 10 sessions of manual lymphatic drainage, a pad, bandaging, taping and exercise were followed by reported reductions in arm volume and better function and quality-of-life scores. No component can be credited alone.
• SLPOther2017Case assignment in English-speaking children: a paired priming paradigm.Journal of child languageHearing pronouns whose subject and object forms are the same made young children more likely to use him or her as subjects. Those errors often included the -s verb ending. This shows input can shape pronoun errors, not treatment.
• SLPSurvey2017Parent-Reported Severity and Health/Educational Services Use Among US Children with Autism: Results from a National Survey.Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBPHigher parent-reported autism severity was linked with more therapy and specialist visits. School-based speech and social-skills therapy were common; behavioral intervention was less common. Ask what services a child actually receives.
• PTCase Report2017Effects of central and unilateral posteroanterior mobilization on cervical lordosis, muscle stiffness and ROM in patient with ankylosing spondylitis: case study.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn one man with ankylosing spondylitis, measurements taken after cervical posteroanterior mobilization showed lower stiffness and greater lateral flexion and left rotation. Flexion, extension and right rotation did not change significantly.
• OTQualitative2016Establishing the Cultural Equivalence of the Young Children's Participation and Environment Measure (YC-PEM) for Use in Singapore.Physical & occupational therapy in pediatricsEven though Singapore uses English, many YC-PEM items needed changes for young children’s participation. Activity examples, wording, and item order were revised. Parents understood instructions, although providers worried the questionnaire was lengthy.
• OTOther2016Brief biopsychosocially informed education can improve insurance workers' back pain beliefs: Implications for improving claims management behaviours.Work (Reading, Mass.)Insurance workers who received two short biopsychosocial education sessions reported more positive back pain beliefs and rated their self-reported claims management change 4.8 out of 10 on average. No control group means this does not prove the education caused those changes.
• PTOTOther2016Modifying Kinect placement to improve upper limb joint angle measurement accuracy.Journal of hand therapy : official journal of the American Society of Hand TherapistsPlacing a Kinect sensor at 45° elevation in front of the shoulder gave better upper limb reaching angle accuracy than the usual horizontal setup. Wrist range was still too inaccurate for clinical use.
• OTOther2016Differences in active range of motion measurements in the upper extremity of patients with writer's cramp compared with healthy controls.Journal of hand therapy : official journal of the American Society of Hand TherapistsOnly 5 of 38 upper-extremity motion measurements differed between 8 people with writer's cramp and 8 controls. Some finger movements were limited, others excessive, and index finger knuckle flexion decreased with longer disease and worse handwriting.
• SLPCohort2017Social Confidence in Early Adulthood Among Young People With and Without a History of Language Impairment.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHRAt age 24, adults with a history of language impairment had lower self-esteem, lower confidence in handling social situations, and higher shyness than peers. Language ability at 17 was associated with these outcomes, partly through shyness.
• SLPOther2017Effect of Energy Equalization on the Intelligibility of Speech in Fluctuating Background Interference for Listeners With Hearing Impairment.Trends in hearingFor listeners with hearing loss, a signal-processing method increased the benefit from regular fluctuating noise, but not from speech-like noise, and average consonant scores were lower than with unprocessed speech.
• PTOTRCT2017The effect of virtual reality program on the cognitive function and balance of the people with mild cognitive impairment.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn 24 adults with mild cognitive impairment, four weeks of virtual reality tasks improved memory, concentration and balance scores, while traditional occupational therapy did not. The study did not test whether changes lasted.
• SLPCase Report2017Breastfeeding and swallowing in a neonate with mild hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir KommunikasieafwykingsOne neonate with mild HIE and HIV exposure had poor latch, drowsy state and coughing or choking early, then better feeding by Day 13, but a swallow study showed oral phase problems despite no aspiration.
• PTOther2017Ingenuity for enabling the habituation of pelvic floor muscle training.Journal of physical therapy scienceWomen in a program with education, therapist-led practice, follow-up, home training, and self-recording reported better skill and incontinence scores, but no control means PFMT alone cannot be shown to work.
• SLPCohort2017Longitudinal Changes in Speech Breathing in Older Adults with and without Parkinson's Disease.Seminars in speech and languageOver about 3 years and 7 months, speech severity and speech rate increased for people with Parkinson's disease, and they began and ended speech at lower lung volumes. Typical older adults showed the opposite lung volume pattern.
• PTRCT2017The effects of aroma massage and foot bath on psychophysiological response in stroke patients.Journal of physical therapy scienceStroke patients who received general physical therapy plus back massage with essential oils and foot bath had less stress, better mood, higher body temperature and sleep satisfaction than those receiving general therapy alone. The added package's individual parts cannot be separated.
• PTPilot2017Results of the first interim analysis of the RAPPER II trial in patients with spinal cord injury: ambulation and functional exercise programs in the REX powered walking aid.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationIn the first 20 people with spinal cord injury, a single supervised REX exoskeleton session was feasible: all transferred in, 19 did upright upper-body exercises, and no device-related adverse events occurred.
• PTCohort2017Longitudinal estimation of intramuscular Tibialis Anterior coherence during subacute spinal cord injury: relationship with neurophysiological, functional and clinical outcome measures.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationA high-frequency muscle signal pattern increased in 20 people with incomplete spinal cord injury during subacute recovery, while brain-to-muscle pathway measures did not change. This is an experimental marker, not a clinical test.
• PTOTCohort2017The Association Between Activity Limitation Stages and Admission to Facilities Providing Long-term Care Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries.American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitationOlder Medicare beneficiaries with mild activity limitations were more likely to enter long-term care within a year. Risk rose with stage, and any ADL or IADL limitation was associated with higher risk.
• SLPCohort2017A Discrepancy in Comprehension and Production in Early Language Development in ASD: Is it Clinically Relevant?Journal of autism and developmental disordersAt about 30 months, toddlers with autism often understood less than they said relative to age expectations, while late talkers showed the reverse. This faded by 66 months, so check receptive and expressive language separately.
• SLPOther2017Is the Autism-Spectrum Quotient a Valid Measure of Traits Associated with the Autism Spectrum? A Rasch Validation in Adults with and Without Autism Spectrum Disorders.Journal of autism and developmental disordersThe AQ does not measure one single autism trait, though it separates adults with and without autism on average. Some items worked poorly, especially detail-focused ones, and only a subset worked as one trait.
• Pilot2017Diffusion imaging of mild traumatic brain injury in the impact accelerated rodent model: A pilot study.Brain injuryIn rats with mild traumatic brain injury, white matter diffusion values were higher seven days after injury, mainly opposite the impact site. This is animal pilot data, not evidence for human therapy.
• SLPOther2017Implicit learning and implicit treatment outcomes in individuals with aphasia.AphasiologyRepeated passive sentence exposure did not improve comprehension in people with agrammatic aphasia, even though many learned a hidden button-press pattern without being told it existed. This training alone did not help.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2017Needs of Stroke Survivors as Perceived by Their Caregivers: A Scoping Review.American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitationCaregivers most often reported environmental needs, especially support, services, safety and accessibility, after discharge. They also noted psychosocial, physical, cognitive and speech needs. This review maps those needs. It does not test whether meeting them improves outcomes.
• SLPOther2017Spatiotemporal movement variability in ALS: Speaking rate effects on tongue, lower lip, and jaw motor control.Journal of communication disordersTalkers with mild to moderate ALS had less variable tongue dorsum and lower lip movements during typical speech than controls. Slow speech increased variability in ALS; fast speech did not. These are group differences, not treatment effects.
• OTOther2017Evaluating Disability Insurance Assistance as a Specific Intervention by Physiatrists at a Cancer Center.American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitationPhysiatrists at a cancer center completed disability paperwork for 58 patients, and 45 were approved or renewed. Deconditioning/fatigue was often recorded as a work-limiting impairment. With no comparison group, this cannot show the paperwork caused approval.
• SLPOther2017Using Time Perception to Explore Implicit Sensitivity to Emotional Stimuli in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAdults with autism and adults without autism judged emotional pictures as lasting longer than neutral pictures by a similar amount. Their automatic timing response did not differ between groups.
• PTRCT2017Effect of complex training on carbon monoxide, cardiorespiratory function, and body mass among college students at the initial stage of stopping smoking.Journal of physical therapy scienceDuring 12 weeks of not smoking, male students doing 30-minute aerobic plus weight training five times weekly had lower exhaled carbon monoxide, higher treadmill fitness, less body fat, and more muscle than controls.
• Narrative Review2017The role of cholesterol metabolism and various steroid abnormalities in autism spectrum disorders: A hypothesis paper.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchNo original patient outcomes are reported. The paper proposes a cholesterol-steroid pathway hypothesis for autism spectrum disorder.
• SLPNarrative Review2017Tutorial: Speech Assessment for Multilingual Children Who Do Not Speak the Same Language(s) as the Speech-Language Pathologist.American journal of speech-language pathologyThis is an expert tutorial, not a study. It gives guidance on assessing multilingual children's speech, but it reports no tested outcomes.
• OTQualitative2016Implementing a collaborative return-to-work program: Lessons from a qualitative study in a large Canadian healthcare organization.Work (Reading, Mass.)Managers and union return-to-work coordinators supported a new healthcare return-to-work program but described tensions: unclear coordinator roles, generic plans focused on restrictions, co-worker burden, confidentiality worries, budget pressures, distrust of independent medical assessments, and low confidence supporting mental health returns.
• OTOther2016The impact of handwriting difficulties on compositional quality in children with developmental coordination disorder.The British journal of occupational therapyChildren with DCD wrote lower-quality free writing than matched peers. Handwriting speed and misspelling rate were linked to writing quality, so occupational therapists should look beyond legibility when handwriting problems appear.
• OTCohort2016Factors Influencing Rehospitalisation of Patients with Schizophrenia in Japan: A 1-year Longitudinal Study.Hong Kong journal of occupational therapy : HKJOTIn 44 discharged patients with schizophrenia, a one-to-one OT package of motivational interviewing, self-monitoring, individualized visits, handicraft activities, individualized psychoeducation, and discharge planning plus group OT and outpatient adherence were associated with lower 1-year rehospitalisation. The study cannot show which parts caused this.