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 311 OF 704 · NEWEST FIRST

• PTOTOther2019Exercise and Parkinson Disease: Comparing Tango, Treadmill, and Stretching.Journal of neurologic physical therapy : JNPTTreadmill walking improved forward and backward gait speed more than stretching or tango, but none of the changes across the three groups were large enough to be clinically meaningful for people with Parkinson disease.
• OTRCT2019Five-year follow-up of a cluster-randomized controlled trial of a client-centred activities of daily living intervention for people with stroke.Clinical rehabilitationFive years after stroke, a client-centred daily living intervention did not improve participants' perceived participation compared with usual daily living care. Their significant others had fewer depression signs, but this was not the main result.
• SLPOther2019Sensitivity and Specificity of the ADOS-2 Algorithm in a Large German Sample.Journal of autism and developmental disordersADOS-2 and ADOS performed similarly in most comparisons, but Module 1 had poor specificity. Adding SCQ and SRS improved Module 4 autism versus non-ASD classification, not Module 3.
• SLPSurvey2019Delayed autism spectrum disorder recognition in children and adolescents previously diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceChildren and adolescents with autism who had ADHD first were diagnosed with autism later, and girls showed a larger delay. Adults with prior ADHD did not show this timing difference.
• SLPOther2019Do Persian Native Speakers Prosodically Mark Wh-in-situ Questions?Language and speechPersian speakers raised pitch and made larger pitch movements before the question word, and shortened whole questions, compared with matching statements. Pitch marking after the question word was weaker.
• PTSLPQualitative2019A support programme for caregivers of children with disabilities in Ghana: Understanding the impact on the wellbeing of caregivers.Child: care, health and developmentCaregivers of children with cerebral palsy in Ghana said group training, monthly home visits and facilitator support were linked with greater understanding, changes in positioning, feeding and communication, and less isolation. Poverty and stigma still limited what they could do.
• SLPOther2018The Effect of Simulated Interaural Frequency Mismatch on Speech Understanding and Spatial Release From Masking.Ear and hearingSimulated cochlear implant frequency mismatches reduced speech understanding in noise. Spatial release from masking remained stable with bilateral shifts but varied unpredictably with unilateral shifts, suggesting simple frequency alignment may not fully restore binaural benefits.
• PTRCT2018The effect of core stabilization exercise on lumbar joint position sense in patients with subacute non-specific low back pain: a randomized controlled trial.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn adults with subacute non-specific low back pain, supervised core stabilization exercise improved lumbar joint position sense at 7 weeks and 4-week follow-up, and reduced pain and disability more than ultrasound and heat. The trial had 38 participants.
• PTOther2018Contribution of muscle activity at different gait phases for improving walking performance in chronic stroke patients with hemiparesis.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn 40 chronic stroke walkers, more paretic-leg biceps femoris activity during swing was associated with faster walking, while more tibialis anterior activity was associated with slower walking. It does not show training these muscles changes speed.
• PTOTSystematic Review2018Assessment of upper limb use in children with typical development and neurodevelopmental disorders by inertial sensors: a systematic review.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationWearable sensors on both wrists can objectively measure upper limb movement in children. They distinguish typical development from neurodevelopmental disorders and track asymmetry. Current evidence is too limited by small sample sizes and varied methods to recommend them as standard clinical tools yet.
• PTOTOther2018Differences in body awareness and its effects on balance function and independence in activities of daily living for stroke.Journal of physical therapy scienceStroke survivors with lower fall risk and less need for daily assistance reported higher body awareness. The study did not show that improving body awareness caused these differences.
• SLPCohort2018Fetal and Infancy Growth Pattern, Cord and Early Childhood Plasma Leptin, and Development of Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Boston Birth Cohort.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchExtremely rapid infancy weight gain and higher early childhood leptin were associated with later autism spectrum disorder diagnosis, while cord leptin and being small or large for gestational age were not.
• OTSLPCohort2018Infant quantitative risk for autism spectrum disorder predicts executive function in early childhood.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchAt 3.5 years, children whose parents reported more sensory-regulatory behaviors at 12 months showed more parent-reported executive-function difficulties. This remained after accounting for later ASD symptoms. Social-communication risk did not.
• SLPCohort2018Results in Adult Cochlear Implant Recipients With Varied Asymmetric Hearing: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of Speech Recognition, Localization, and Participant Report.Ear and hearingAdults with one deaf ear and usable hearing in the other showed better speech recognition and sound localization when using a cochlear implant with their hearing aid, compared to either device alone. Most benefits appeared within six months.
• PTOther2018Impact of antagonistic muscle co-contraction on in vivo knee contact forces.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationIn 9 knee replacement patients, model changes linked to antagonist co-contraction increased predicted peak knee force by up to 1.70 bodyweight during stairs. Static alignment did not explain the wide variation, and muscle activation patterns changed the predicted force.
• PTOTCase Report2018Efficacy of scrambler therapy on breast cancer-related lymphedema.Journal of physical therapy scienceA single patient with breast cancer-related lymphedema reported pain dropping from 8 to 2 on a 10-point scale after ten scrambler therapy sessions. Arm circumference did not change, and body water decreased by a negligible 10 ml. This is one person, not a pattern.
• PTRCT2018On the design of EEG-based movement decoders for completely paralyzed stroke patients.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationFor completely paralyzed stroke patients, decoding movement intention from brain signals works better than from muscle signals. The best brain-decoding setup used signals from both hemispheres, a common average reference filter, and an adaptive classifier, though this improved accuracy offline without yet proving better motor recovery.
• PTRCT2018Different Error Size During Locomotor Adaptation Affects Transfer to Overground Walking Poststroke.Neurorehabilitation and neural repairRaising one treadmill belt speed gradually, rather than suddenly, produced greater transfer to overground walking in people after stroke. Treadmill learning was similar, and the overground change was small and variable.
• PTOther2018Amputee perception of prosthetic ankle stiffness during locomotion.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationBelow-knee amputees could detect a 7.7% change in prosthetic ankle stiffness while walking, and they repeatedly chose similar preferred settings across five trials.
• PTOther2018Examination of Utricular Response Using oVEMP and Unilateral Centrifugation Rotation Testing.Ear and hearingIn 47 healthy adults, oVEMP amplitude did not track rotation test measures of utricular sensitivity. A larger oVEMP response was not shown to mean stronger utricular sensitivity.
• PTSurvey2018Evaluation of primary headache associated with temporomandibular dysfunction in adolescents from Santos, SP, Brazil: an observational study.Journal of physical therapy scienceAmong 189 adolescents analysed, those with temporomandibular dysfunction were more likely to report headache, especially moderate headache. Gender did not differ. This is an association, not proof that jaw problems cause headache.
• SLPCase-Control2018Use of a phoneme monitoring task to examine lexical access in adults who do and do not stutter.Journal of fluency disordersAdults who stutter showed no significant difficulty accessing verbs versus nouns. However, they made significantly more errors when monitoring for phonemes in the middle of words compared to the start. This suggests a specific weakness in processing word-internal sounds rather than general lexical retrieval.
• PTRCT2018Time course of changes in motor-cognitive exergame performances during task-specific training in patients with dementia: identification and predictors of early training response.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationIn mild-to-moderate dementia, exergame balance training improved completion time within 3 weeks. Gains were largest early, then plateaued; more complex tasks still improved over the full 10 weeks. Patients with poorer baseline task, visuospatial, and dual-task scores responded fastest.
• PTOther2018Baseline muscle tendon unit stiffness does not affect static stretching of the ankle plantar flexor muscles.Journal of physical therapy scienceTen minutes of static stretching improved ankle flexibility and reduced stiffness in all participants. Baseline stiffness did not change how much stretching helped. People with stiffer ankles started with less range of motion, but the stretching effect was the same.
• PTOTSystematic Review2019Level of Evidence for Reliability, Validity, and Responsiveness of Physical Capacity Tasks Designed to Assess Functioning in Patients With Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review Using the COSMIN Standards.Physical therapyThe 5-repetition sit-to-stand is the only task with strong reliability and validity, but measurement error was too large to detect minimal important change. Other common tests like the 50-ft walk also had high reliability but failed measurement error standards.
• SLPCohort2019Stability of Autistic Traits from 5 to 8 Years of Age Among Children in the General Population.Journal of autism and developmental disordersMean autistic trait scores showed no significant change from age 5 to 8. Still, children tended to keep their relative position, and higher-scoring children showed moderate stability.
• PTNarrative Review2019Myths and Facts of In-Office Regenerative Procedures for Tendinopathy.American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitationSome studies report pain reduction after prolotherapy or platelet-rich plasma injections in chronic tendinopathy, but protocols vary, some include local anaesthetic or exercise, and evidence is inconsistent. Cell therapies and ultrasonic tenotomy are less established. Discuss risks before referral.
• PTCase-Control2019Non-motor predictors of freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease.Gait & postureDaytime sleepiness and symbol digit test scores predicted freezing four years later. Anxiety and depression did not predict freezing when motor severity was matched.
• PTOther2019Clinical tests to determine femoral version category in people with chronic hip joint pain and asymptomatic controls.Musculoskeletal science & practicePassive hip rotation tests and Craig's test were related to MRI femoral version in adults with and without chronic hip pain. They may help screen for abnormal version when imaging is unavailable, but do not show that version causes pain.
• SLPCase-Control2019Signing with the Face: Emotional Expression in Narrative Production in Deaf Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersDeaf children with autism produced a similar total number of facial actions to deaf controls, but fewer exactly matched adult signers, especially for demand and mischief.
• OTSLPCohort2019Clinical correlates of sluggish cognitive tempo in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceIn adolescents with autism, sluggish cognitive tempo symptoms were linked to higher autism severity and more anxiety or depression. Attention-deficit symptoms were linked to more rule-breaking. Both were linked to daily executive function problems, but sluggish tempo specifically related to planning and memory.
• PTOTRCT2018Kinect-based assessment of proximal arm non-use after a stroke.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationA marker-less Kinect sensor measured proximal arm non-use in stroke survivors with good accuracy compared to a reference system. It reliably tracked shoulder and elbow movement reserve, offering a low-cost, easy-to-set-up alternative for clinical assessment.
• Case-Control2018The effect of age on vertex-based measures of the grey-white matter tissue contrast in autism spectrum disorder.Molecular autismIn boys and young men with autism, the boundary between grey and white matter showed lower contrast, especially during childhood and early adolescence. The difference was mainly in the white matter signal, not the grey matter signal.
• SLPOther2018Response Changes During Insertion of a Cochlear Implant Using Extracochlear Electrocochleography.Ear and hearingExtracochlear monitoring during cochlear implantation is feasible but complex. While most insertions showed stable responses, about 21% had temporary drops that recovered. Early response losses often resolve, so a single drop does not confirm permanent trauma.
• OTOther2018Alterations in electrophysiological indices of perceptual processing and discrimination are associated with co-occurring emotional and behavioural problems in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder.Molecular autismIn adolescents with autism, stronger brain response to unexpected sound differences was linked to more parent-rated behaviour problems, but this link faded when autism severity was considered. More anxiety symptoms were linked to stronger brain response to the first repeated sound after a change.
• PTRCT2018Overground walking patterns after chronic incomplete spinal cord injury show distinct response patterns to unloading.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationIn 12 people with chronic incomplete spinal cord injury who could walk at 2 km/h, overground unloading up to 50% changed walking timing and balance, but the way their leg joints moved together stayed more fixed than in controls.
• SLPSurvey2018Talking Tots and the Terrible Twos: Early Language and Disruptive Behavior in Toddlers.Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBPToddlers with better language had fewer disruptive behaviors on parent report. The association was stronger for girls and toddlers in poverty. This cross-sectional survey cannot show language problems caused behavior problems.
• SLPCohort2018Race Differences in Gastrostomy Tube Placement After Stroke in Majority-White, Minority-Serving, and Racially Integrated US Hospitals.DysphagiaStroke patients in hospitals serving more minority patients were more likely to have a PEG tube placed, even after patient race was accounted for. White patients in those hospitals were also more likely to have a PEG tube placed.
• SLPOther2018Maturation of the Coordination Between Respiration and Deglutition with and Without Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Lesion in an Animal Model.DysphagiaIn infant pigs, the delay between a swallow and the next breath grew from day 7 to day 17. Pigs with a recurrent laryngeal nerve lesion showed a larger age-related change, but the lesion alone did not shift timing.
• PTOther2018Biomechanical Evaluation of Virtual Reality-based Turning on a Self-Paced Linear Treadmill.Gait & postureNine of ten healthy adults initiated turning on a VR treadmill. Head rotation triggered the turn, but leg movements and muscle activity were significantly smaller than real-world turning. The system felt realistic but did not fully replicate overground mechanics.
• SLPOther2018When regularization gets it wrong: children over-simplify language input only in production.Journal of child languageSix-year-olds learning made-up language rules did not use gender in speech, often repeating one classifier. When both options were shown, they recognized both without preference. Production tasks may understate what children recognize.
• PTCase Report2018Effects of the combination therapy of tilt sensor functional electrical stimulation and integrated volitional control electrical stimulation on brain activity during the subacute phase following stroke: a feasibility study.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn a man with subacute stroke, usual therapy plus volitional-control and tilt-sensor FES was associated with faster walking and more cerebellum and supplementary motor area activation. This is a single case, not evidence that the treatment works.
• PTRCT2018Effect of high-frequency alternating current transcutaneous stimulation over muscle strength: a controlled pilot study.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationHigh-frequency alternating current at 10 kHz applied over ulnar and median nerves reduced handgrip strength during and just after stimulation in 11 healthy volunteers; 5 kHz and sham did not.
• SLPCohort2018In Search of Biomarkers for Autism Spectrum Disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchIn 38 high-functioning men with autism, no single measure stood out as a ready-made biomarker for social communication. SCIT, ASR, RMET and smell tests related to clinician ratings, but most links were modest and varied by test.
• SLPPilot2018Neural Mechanisms of Swallowing Dysfunction and Apraxia of Speech in Acute Stroke.DysphagiaFailing an aspiration screen and apraxia of speech were linked in 68 acute left hemisphere stroke patients. Broca area lesions were linked to both, but the deficits rarely occurred together, so one does not predict the other.
• PTCohort2018Patient-Reported Outcome of Physical Therapy in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Observational Online Study.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologiesPeople with ALS who completed online follow-up rated physical therapy more highly over time even as their chosen symptom, activity limitation and function worsened. This shows patient-reported value during decline, not proof therapy slows disease.
• PTOther2018Objective measures of gait and balance in healthy non-falling adults as a function of age.Gait & postureOlder healthy non-falling adults showed more variable foot pressure and stride length while walking, age differences in stride length while texting, and wider steps during heel-to-toe walking.
• PTOTOther2018Relationships Between Affected-Leg Motor Impairment, Postural Asymmetry, and Impaired Body Sway Control After Unilateral Supratentorial Stroke.Neurorehabilitation and neural repairStroke survivors with good leg motor scores often still have asymmetric balance control. They shift weight to the less-affected leg to compensate. This hides the problem in standard walking tests. Therapists should suspect hidden deficits in complex tasks like single-leg stance or hopping.
• SLPCohort2018Word Learning in Children With Cochlear Implants: Examining Performance Relative to Hearing Peers and Relations With Age at Implantation.Ear and hearingChildren with cochlear implants matched hearing peers in understanding new words but struggled to say them correctly. Their speaking errors matched younger hearing children with similar vocabularies. Implant age did not predict word learning skills in this group.
• PTSurvey2019Fall Prevalence and Contributors to the Likelihood of Falling in Persons With Upper Limb Loss.Physical therapyAmong 105 people with upper limb loss who answered fall questions, 28.6% reported two or more falls in the past year and 45.7% reported at least one. Lower balance confidence, low perceived capability, and prosthesis use were associated with frequent falls.