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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• Other2017Neuroanatomy in mouse models of Rett syndrome is related to the severity of Mecp2 mutation and behavioral phenotypes.Molecular autismIn mouse Rett models, complete Mecp2 loss produced large brain volume reductions, while a milder mutation produced smaller changes and some cerebellar increases. Volume tracked behavioral severity, but this is animal neuroanatomy.
• SLPOther2017The Benefits of Bimodal Aiding on Extended Dimensions of Speech Perception: Intelligibility, Listening Effort, and Sound Quality.Trends in hearingAdding a hearing aid to a cochlear implant improved speech understanding in quiet and noise, reduced listening effort at the most favorable tested level, and made sound fuller and less tinny in 15 adult bimodal users.
• OTOther2017Assessment of unilateral neglect in stroke: Simplification and structuring of test items.The British journal of occupational therapyIn stroke inpatients with known neglect, structured feeding, dressing, item location, and cancellation tasks showed little neglect, while naturalistic observation captured neglect. Simplifying and structuring tasks may let patients compensate, so use occupation-based observation.
• OTOther2017Article Commentary: A Psychospiritual Integration frame of Reference for Occupational Therapy. Part 2: Transformative Occupations and the Change Process.Hong Kong journal of occupational therapy : HKJOTNo patient results are reported here. A spirituality-informed occupational therapy framework and transformative occupations are proposed, not tested interventions.
• SLPCohort2017Predictors of Hearing-Aid Outcomes.Trends in hearingCochlear hair-cell loss was not linked to hearing-aid outcomes. Better detection of frequency changes and younger age were associated with better speech-in-noise with hearing aids; unaided quiet speech scores were the best simple clinical guide.
• OTQualitative2017Exploring Cultural Competence amongst OT Students.Occupational therapy internationalSouth African occupational therapy students described language and culture as tightly linked. A majority felt culturally incompetent, yet described using body language, research, learning client languages, and extra time to adapt therapy. Translators were reported to weaken rapport.
• SLPPilot2017Optimizing Respiratory-Swallowing Coordination in Patients With Oropharyngeal Head and Neck Cancer.Perspectives of the ASHA special interest groups30 patients with head and neck cancer dysphagia trained to time swallows during mid-to-low lung volume breathing. After training, all showed the breathing-swallow pattern, and airway protection scores improved. Quality of life scores rose, but not by the 10-point clinically meaningful change.
• PTOther2017Reliability of musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging to measure supraspinatus tendon thickness in healthy subjects.Journal of physical therapy scienceMusculoskeletal ultrasound measured supraspinatus tendon thickness consistently in 20 healthy adults when the same expert repeated scans and when two experts scanned. It does not show ultrasound is accurate for diagnosing tears in patients.
• SLPOther2017Introducing the Australian Hearing Hub.Trends in hearingThis article introduces the Australian Hearing Hub and previews a special issue. It describes partnerships and goals, but reports no methods, results, or patient outcomes that could change therapy practice.
• PTOther2017Acupressure for chronic low back pain: a single system study.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn one man with chronic low back pain, adding acupressure to physical therapy coincided with lower pain, better function, and a disability score of 0%, but physical therapy alone also changed scores and this design cannot show acupressure caused it.
• Other2017Replicable in vivo physiological and behavioral phenotypes of the Shank3B null mutant mouse model of autism.Molecular autismShank3B knockout mice showed fewer induced seizures, stronger EEG gamma activity, more self-grooming, and some reduced male-female social interaction. These replicated in two mouse cohorts. This is a preclinical autism model, not a treatment result.
• PTOTNarrative Review2017Telerehabilitation: Review of the State-of-the-Art and Areas of Application.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologiesRemote rehabilitation systems can be feasible for some cardiac, neurological and physiotherapy patients. No standard protocols exist, and many systems were tested in small studies.
• PTOTMeta-Analysis2017Outcomes of safe patient handling and mobilization programs: A meta-analysis.Work (Reading, Mass.)Across 44 healthcare sites, safe patient handling and mobilization programs were associated with lower worker injury rates. Injuries after programs were 0.44 times the before-program rate. The reduction was largest in intensive care units.
• SLPPilot2017An Online Telepractice Model for the Prevention of Voice Disorders in Vocally Healthy Student Teachers Evaluated by a Smartphone Application.Perspectives of the ASHA special interest groupsIn 21 vocally healthy student teachers, preliminary app-recorded voice measures changed after a voice prevention model delivered in person or online. The main outcome, whether voice problems appeared during student teaching, is not reported yet.
• PTOTCohort2017Prediction of prognosis of upper-extremity function following stroke-related paralysis using brain imaging.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn 12 stroke patients with partly intact motor tract fibers, a diffusion MRI tract ratio was related to upper-limb motor and use scores at 3 months. Two cases did not follow this pattern, and all received physical, occupational, and speech therapy.
• PTOther2017Test-retest reliability of static postural control in people with multiple sclerosis.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn people with relapsing-remitting MS, repeated balance-platform measures were generally stable on firm and foam surfaces, with eyes open or closed; speed and side-length measures were the most dependable.
• SLPOther2017A Data-Driven Synthesis of Research Evidence for Domains of Hearing Loss, as Reported by Adults With Hearing Loss and Their Communication Partners.Trends in hearingAdults with hearing loss reported listening in noise, telephone calls, social withdrawal, fatigue, and stigma. Their spouses reported fatigue, frustration, and roles like answering the phone. These domains can guide communication assessment, not prove a treatment works.
• SLPCohort2017The EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP): design and methodologies to identify and validate stratification biomarkers for autism spectrum disorders.Molecular autismPeople with ASD and controls from childhood through adulthood have been recruited into a longitudinal autism research project that tracks brain, cognitive, genetic and symptom profiles. No result changes therapy choices yet.
• PTPilot2017Near-infrared spectroscopy can reveal increases in brain activity related to animal-assisted therapy.Journal of physical therapy scienceHealthy students showed more brain activity in the frontal region when viewing a goat picture than a shack picture or resting. This small pilot used pictures, not therapy animals, and does not show animal-assisted therapy improves patient outcomes.
• PTSurvey2017Factors related to coping strategies during Japanese physical therapy students' clinical practice.Journal of physical therapy scienceJapanese physical therapy students who reported higher daily-life self-esteem and positive thinking also reported more affirmative interpreting after clinical practice. Emotional/companionship support was linked with more avoidance coping. Supervising PTs can watch for low daily-life self-esteem or positive thinking.
• PTPilot2017Identifying predictors for postoperative clinical outcome in lumbar spinal stenosis patients using smart-shoe technology.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationPreoperative smart-shoe walking measures were associated with postoperative disability and pain after surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis, while standard clinical variables were not. This was a small pilot, so it does not yet guide surgical decisions.
• OTQualitative2017Integrating Musculoskeletal Sonography Into Rehabilitation: Therapists' Experiences With Training and Implementation.OTJR : occupation, participation and healthThe two occupational therapists described learning and using musculoskeletal ultrasound as linked skills in operating the machine, capturing images, and reading the images. Time, patient factors and concerns about diagnosis and communication limited implementation.
• PTPilot2017Cross-cultural adaptation of the 12-item Örebro musculoskeletal screening questionnaire to Japanese (ÖMSQ-12-J), reliability and clinicians' impressions for practicality.Journal of physical therapy scienceJapanese adults with musculoskeletal problems answered the 12-item Örebro screening twice and mostly gave similar answers. 14 clinicians mostly found it useful, but it has not been shown to predict recovery.
• OTCase-Control2017Intrainsular connectivity and somatosensory responsiveness in young children with ASD.Molecular autismIn young children with ASD, tactile seeking was tied to a brain tract linking sensory and emotional touch areas in the opposite direction from typical children. The ASD group also showed more touch defensiveness, more seeking, and poorer touch discrimination.
• PTCohort2017Clinical features of patients diagnosed with degenerative rotator cuff tendon disease: a 6-month prospective-definitive clinical study from turkey.Journal of physical therapy scienceMost patients were women with an average age of 52.6 years. Night pain and daily NSAID use were common. Women had higher pain scores and BMI; men did more repetitive shoulder work.
• PTNarrative Review2017Sensorimotor Learning: Neurocognitive Mechanisms and Individual Differences.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationSensorimotor adaptation begins with cognitive effort, including working memory and explicit aiming, then becomes more procedural. Conscious verbalization can disrupt a well-learned movement.
• SLPCase Series2017Rapid recovery from aphasia after infarction of Wernicke's area.AphasiologyTwo people with aphasia after Wernicke's area strokes gained language ability quickly at first, then more slowly over 3 months. Speech rate and complexity rose, errors fell. By 3 months they still had conduction aphasia deficits.
• PTOther2017Activity Recognition in Individuals Walking With Assistive Devices: The Benefits of Device-Specific Models.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologiesFor patients using a new knee-ankle-foot orthosis, activity recognition works better when the model is trained on that device. Healthy-person models performed poorly, and stair climbing remained hard to detect.
• OTQualitative2017From awareness to action: Sudbury, mining and occupational disease in a time of change.Work (Reading, Mass.)Interviewees said awareness of mining occupational disease has grown, but accident deaths still drew more attention. They attributed reduced exposures mainly to modernization, foreign ownership, market cycles and legislation, not awareness alone.
• SLPCohort2017Connected speech in transient aphasias after left hemisphere resective surgery.AphasiologyWithin 2-3 days after left hemisphere resection, all 10 connected speech measures worsened in the 29 patients with aphasia; by 1 month most improved, but phonological errors and lexical access remained above pre-surgery levels.
• OTOther2017Spanish Transcultural Adaptation and Validity of the Behavioral Inattention Test.Occupational therapy internationalSpanish stroke patients with neglect differed from those without neglect on every adapted BIT item. The test gave consistent scores and may help therapists assess everyday neglect problems.
• PTPilot2017Mobile Phone-Supported Physiotherapy for Frozen Shoulder: Feasibility Assessment Based on a Usability Study.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologiesFive patients with stage two frozen shoulder found an app usable, logged high exercise compliance, and were judged to perform exercises correctly. The study did not test whether the app improved pain or movement, and usual physiotherapy continued.
• SLPOther2017The curious case of processing unaccusative verbs in aphasia.AphasiologyIn sentences where the verb has only one noun, people with Broca's aphasia showed delayed activation of that noun as age-matched controls did. The study measured reaction times to pictures, not final comprehension.
• SLPOther2017Evaluation of a Method for Determining Binaural Sensitivity to Temporal Fine Structure (TFS-AF Test) for Older Listeners With Normal and Impaired Low-Frequency Hearing.Trends in hearingThe test produced a graded binaural hearing sensitivity score for older listeners with normal or mild low-frequency hearing loss, and repeated runs did not improve scores. The hearing-impaired and normal-hearing older groups did not differ clearly.
• Other2017NLR, MLP, SVM, and LDA: a comparative analysis on EMG data from people with trans-radial amputation.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationFor people with below-elbow amputation imagining five hand gestures, a raw-signal pattern-recognition method matched the standard method on the gesture-matching task and on a score that balances gesture matching with computer memory. It was offline, not real-time prosthesis use.
• OTSLPCohort2017The EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP): clinical characterisation.Molecular autismAutism symptoms looked more severe in males than females on clinician and parent interview measures, but parent questionnaires showed no sex difference and adult females reported higher symptoms. Adults had lower parent-reported symptoms than children.
• SLPNarrative Review2017Soft Tissue Conduction: Review, Mechanisms, and Implications.Trends in hearingThere is no clinical finding to act on.
• Other2017Effects of a social stimulus on gene expression in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome.Molecular autismA social stimulus increased amygdala activation and altered gene expression in fragile X mice, including autism risk genes. This is mouse work, not evidence of a treatment effect.
• SLPCohort2017Use of clinical chromosomal microarray in Chinese patients with autism spectrum disorder-implications of a copy number variation involving DPP10.Molecular autismA DPP10 duplication was found in 1 of 258 Chinese patients with autism and 6 of 653 typical controls, so it was not more common in autism. Clinical genetic testing found a pathogenic or likely pathogenic variant in 9 of 258 patients.
• PTCohort2017Musculoskeletal signs in female homecare personnel: A longitudinal epidemiological study.Work (Reading, Mass.)Pain provoked in lower lumbar segments at baseline was linked to higher low back pain and disability eight years later in female homecare workers. Lumbar mobility showed small links, but signs explained only 6 to 10% of outcomes.
• OTPilot2017Activity Disengagement: Understanding Challenges and Opportunities for Reengagement.Occupational therapy internationalOlder adults in senior housing often gave up everyday tasks and social activities or did them less. No opportunity was common for everyday tasks; no one to do it with was common for social activities. Companionship and opportunity were common answers about doing activities again.
• PTOther2017Robot-Applied Resistance Augments the Effects of Body Weight-Supported Treadmill Training on Stepping and Synaptic Plasticity in a Rodent Model of Spinal Cord Injury.Neurorehabilitation and neural repairIn rats with spinal cord injury, adding horizontal robot resistance increased step length, and vertical resistance increased step height and velocity. Neither restored normal step cycle number or timing, and the study did not test overground walking.
• PTCohort2017Association between mild cognitive impairment and trajectory-based spatial parameters during timed up and go test using a laser range sensor.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationOlder adults with mild cognitive impairment turned closer to the TUG marker and made a narrower forward path. Their total TUG time did not differ, so timing alone may miss these movement differences.
• Other2017Hierarchical cortical transcriptome disorganization in autism.Molecular autismPostmortem autism brain tissue showed coordinated changes in gene activity across immune, protein-production, and synaptic systems. This molecular finding does not change PT, OT, or SLP treatment.
• PTNarrative Review2017Advances in closed-loop deep brain stimulation devices.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationClosed-loop deep brain stimulation can adjust stimulation using brain signals, but it remains mostly research. Only one approved closed-loop system is for epilepsy, and stable signals, noise removal, power, and home monitoring are unresolved.
• OTOther2017Loewenstein Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment to Evaluate People with Addictions.Occupational therapy internationalThe LOTCA showed consistent scores and fit its structure, but it did not track executive function or memory. Use it as a quick screen, then add another test for those areas.
• PTPilot2017Center of mass with the use of smartphone during walking in healthy individuals.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn 48 healthy adults, a smartphone attached at the fifth lumbar vertebra gave consistent vertical and lateral center-of-mass readings across three walking trials. Men and women differed vertically. This suggests feasibility, not proven patient use.
• SLPRCT2017Evaluation of a Frequency-Lowering Algorithm for Adults With High-Frequency Hearing Loss.Trends in hearingIn 10 adults with high-frequency hearing loss, a frequency-lowering hearing aid setting did not improve overall consonant identification, speech in noise, or everyday hearing ratings. It did improve detection of word-final s and z sounds.
• SLPCohort2017A Multi-Method Investigation of Pragmatic Development in Individuals With Down Syndrome.American journal on intellectual and developmental disabilitiesChildren with Down syndrome had pragmatic language weaknesses on parent report and a standardized task. Boys did not differ from younger controls in total observed conversation violations, but girls with Down syndrome did.
• PTOther2017Effects of high intensity aerobic exercise on treadmill on maximum-expiratory lung capacity of elderly women.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn 22 elderly women, 12 weeks of treadmill aerobic exercise at 70% maximum heart rate significantly increased FVC from 2.1 to 2.3 liters and FEV1 from 1.7 to 1.8 liters; other airflow measures did not change significantly.