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 314 OF 704 · NEWEST FIRST

• SLPCohort2019Medically Unexplained Oropharyngeal Dysphagia at the University Hospital ENT Outpatient Clinic for Dysphagia: A Cross-Sectional Cohort Study.DysphagiaIn 14 adults with swallowing complaints but no detectible abnormality on swallowing examination, 6 had clinically relevant anxiety and 3 had depression. Self-rated swallowing severity did not match these symptoms. Ask about anxiety and depression in these patients.
• SLPQualitative2019Parent and professional perspectives on behavioral inflexibility in autism spectrum disorders: A qualitative study.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceParents and clinicians described behavioral inflexibility in children with autism as changing with context and age. They said routines, advance planning, and family flexibility helped, while unexpected changes could trigger distress.
• SLPOther2019Refinement and Validation of the Social Participation Restrictions Questionnaire: An Application of Rasch Analysis and Traditional Psychometric Analysis Techniques.Ear and hearingA 19-item questionnaire for adults with hearing loss measures social behavior problems and social perception feelings as two separate subscales. It is not yet tested for tracking change after rehabilitation.
• SLPOther2019Perceptual Doping: An Audiovisual Facilitation Effect on Auditory Speech Processing, From Phonetic Feature Extraction to Sentence Identification in Noise.Ear and hearingSeeing and hearing Swedish speech made later listening-only speech tasks easier for adults with hearing loss. Seeing and hearing also improved sentence identification in noise. In the sentence task, listening-only exposure also helped later seeing and hearing.
• PTRCT2019Combined Aerobic Exercise and Task Practice Improve Health-Related Quality of Life Poststroke: A Preliminary Analysis.Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitationNo exercise approach improved quality of life more than another. Within groups, forced or voluntary aerobic exercise with task practice improved several self-reported quality of life domains, while education plus task practice showed little change.
• PTOther2019Concurrent validity of the GAITRite electronic walkway and the 10-m walk test for measurement of walking speed after stroke.Gait & postureAfter stroke, 10-meter walk test and GAITRite matched best at maximal speed but not comfortably. Comfortable speeds were faster on the 10-meter test, so do not swap the tests or compare scores across them.
• PTOther2019Subtle alterations in whole body mechanics during gait following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.Gait & postureIn 20 people after ACL reconstruction, even when gait looked normal, the surgical limb showed reduced knee motion, lower knee extension moment, smaller backward ground reaction force, and slower forward body movement during early stance.
• PTOTCase Report2019Impacts of early powered mobility provision on disability identity: A case study.Rehabilitation psychologyChildren with cerebral palsy experienced early powered mobility differently. Sam's wheelchair was tied to choice and play; Jamie's ride-on car was tied to school play, while his mother saw it as delaying a wheelchair.
• Cohort2019Decreasing prevalence of cerebral palsy in birth cohorts in South Carolina using Medicaid, disability service, and hospital discharge data, 1996 to 2009.Developmental medicine and child neurologyCerebral palsy diagnoses in South Carolina birth cohorts fell from 3.6 to 2.1 per 1000 live births between 1996 and 2006. Trends fell across birthweight, gestational age, sex, and non-Hispanic white and black groups, while Hispanic prevalence was stable.
• PTOther2019Muscle Activity During Aquatic and Land Exercises in People With and Without Low Back Pain.Physical therapyIn 40 men, people with chronic low back pain activated trunk and gluteal muscles similarly to people without musculoskeletal disorders. Water and land exercises were mostly similar for muscle activity, though heart rate was higher on land and pain was reported more often on land.
• SLPOther2019Motion-Capture Patterns of Voluntarily Mimicked Dynamic Facial Expressions in Children and Adolescents With and Without ASD.Journal of autism and developmental disordersChildren with ASD copied positive and negative faces with similar overall facial movement, while children without ASD moved more for positive faces. In the ASD group, high-intensity copies often peaked briefly rather than being sustained.
• PTCohort2019Dynamic balance and instrumented gait variables are independent predictors of falls following stroke.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationAfter stroke discharge, people who fell had less side-to-side pelvic movement during fast walking, measured by a motion camera. The step test and Timed Up and Go also flagged falls risk; static balance and gait speed did not. This is not yet routine.
• PTCase-Control2019Kinematic variability and local dynamic stability of gait in individuals with hip pain and a history of developmental dysplasia.Gait & postureTwelve people with hip pain and a history of developmental dysplasia of the hip showed more variable hip, pelvis and trunk movement than twelve matched controls. Trunk stability was not different. Faster walking changed variability and stability differently.
• OTSLPQualitative2019'I kind of figured it out': the views and experiences of people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in using social media-self-determination for participation and inclusion online.International journal of language & communication disordersPeople with TBI used social media to stay connected, but many lurked, felt overwhelmed or fatigued, and learned platforms by trial and error. They lacked direct support and needed prompt, relevant help.
• SLPOther2019Anxiety and Interpretation of Ambiguity in Autistic Children, Typical Children and Their Mothers.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAutistic children and typical children reported similar anxiety and similar interpretations of ambiguous situations. Mothers of autistic children reported more anxiety in themselves and in their children than mothers of typical children did, and saw their children as more threatened, distressed and avoidant.
• SLPCohort2019Effects of Delay, Question Type, and Socioemotional Support on Episodic Memory Retrieval by Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersChildren with autism produced fewer details than peers when asked open-ended questions but remained highly accurate. Cued invitations, which refocus on details the child already mentioned, elicited the most information. Supportive comments increased details at the two-week interview but not at two months.
• PTCohort2019Rate of torque development is the primary contributor to quadriceps avoidance gait following total knee arthroplasty.Gait & postureFast quadriceps force production was the common factor linked to knee flexion during walking after total knee replacement at 3 and 6 months. Knee flexion did not improve, and the study did not show that training it changes gait.
• PTOther2018Which factors are associated with the functional recovery in patients undergoing endoprosthetic knee reconstruction following bone tumour resection? - A observational study.Archives of physiotherapyAt one year after knee tumour prosthesis surgery, standing balance was linked to walking speed, walking endurance and getting up and going. This suggests physiotherapists may add balance work to gait training, but no treatment was tested.
• PTOther2018On the use of approximate entropy and sample entropy with centre of pressure time-series.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationFor quiet-standing sway, sample entropy was more stable across analysis settings than approximate entropy. It separated older adults with and without recent falls only for selected settings, mainly in 60-second front-to-back data.
• SLPOther2018A cross-cultural study of autistic traits across India, Japan and the UK.Molecular autismFive social communication items identified children with autism from typically developing controls across India, Japan and the UK. Four items about spontaneity, talking over others, jokes and social occasions varied by country, so translated screening questions may need checking.
• PTOther2018The Presence of a Paretic Propulsion Reserve During Gait in Individuals Following Stroke.Neurorehabilitation and neural repairTen people with chronic hemiparesis after stroke increased paretic peak propulsion when resisting a treadmill pull. At 10% body weight, peak propulsion rose 92%, and a 25% increase remained after pull removal. The increase was tied to trailing limb angle, not ankle plantarflexion moment.
• PTOTNarrative Review2018Transcranial direct current stimulation for promoting motor function in cerebral palsy: a review.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationtDCS paired with training was linked to better walking speed, balance and mobility in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy, but upper limb motor gains remain unclear.
• OTSLPOther2018Capturing Expert Knowledge for the Personalization of Cognitive Rehabilitation: Study Combining Computational Modeling and a Participatory Design Strategy.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologiesA free web tool can generate personalized paper-and-pencil cognitive tasks for people after stroke. It uses expert ratings of task demands, not patient outcomes, so it may help therapists choose tasks but does not show improved recovery.
• PTOTNarrative Review2018Why orthotic devices could be of help in the management of Movement Disorders in the young.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationUpper-limb orthoses for dyskinetic children have limited evidence. Small studies and reviews show mixed effects on hand and motor function. Customised, dynamic, low-force devices are proposed, not proven.
• PTOther2019Minimal Detectable Change for Gait Speed Depends on Baseline Speed in Individuals With Chronic Stroke.Journal of neurologic physical therapy : JNPTFor chronic stroke, a real gait speed change depends on baseline speed. Slower walkers need 0.10 m/s to exceed day-to-day variation, while faster walkers need 0.18 m/s.
• PTOther2019The Potential Role of the Cervical Spine in Sports-Related Concussion: Clinical Perspectives and Considerations for Risk Reduction.The Journal of orthopaedic and sports physical therapy
• PTCohort2019Failure on the Foam Eyes Closed Test of Standing Balance Associated With Reduced Semicircular Canal Function in Healthy Older Adults.Ear and hearingPeople with lower horizontal semicircular canal function were less likely to pass standing on foam with eyes closed. Ankle position sense and other inner ear tests were not related. The test may point to canal function, not all vestibular loss.
• SLPOther2019Recommendations on Collecting and Storing Samples for Genetic Studies in Hearing and Tinnitus Research.Ear and hearingNo patient outcomes are reported. This is a recommendations paper on collecting and storing samples for genetic studies in tinnitus and hearing loss, not a study of treatment.
• PTOther2019The Impact of Decreased Scapulothoracic Upward Rotation on Subacromial Proximities.The Journal of orthopaedic and sports physical therapyDecreased scapulothoracic upward rotation shifted the closest space under the acromion to lower arm-raising angles, especially with the arm at the side. Contact and area of close contact did not differ between low and high upward rotation groups.
• SLPOther2019Hearing in Real-Life Environments (HERE): Structure and Reliability of a Questionnaire on Perceived Hearing for Older Adults.Ear and hearingScores from the HERE questionnaire were similar across Finnish and UK older adults, stable when repeated in the UK sample, and related to measured hearing and speech-in-noise performance. It may help clinicians ask about everyday hearing difficulty without specialist testing.
• SLPOther2019Reducing Simulated Channel Interaction Reveals Differences in Phoneme Identification Between Children and Adults With Normal Hearing.Ear and hearingChildren with normal hearing needed both more channels and less simulated overlap to identify vowels, while adults plateaued earlier. A small cochlear implant comparison suggested first-implanted child ears performed like children in conditions with less simulated overlap.
• SLPOther2019Prevalence and Predictors of Anxiety Disorders in Adolescent and Adult Males with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Fragile X Syndrome.Journal of autism and developmental disordersOverall anxiety disorder rates did not differ significantly between males with non-syndromic ASD and males with FXS. The rate was 51.6% in FXS and 50.0% in ASD. Nonverbal ability and ASD severity did not help identify who had anxiety.
• SLPSurvey2019A Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study of Tinnitus Awareness and Impact in a Population of Adult Cochlear Implant Users.Ear and hearingTinnitus remains a real concern for some adult cochlear implant users: 13% ranked it their top difficulty among six areas, and 28% ranked it first or second. Many others had little or no tinnitus impact.
• SLPOther2019Establishing a Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Clinical Pathway: An Implementation Evaluation and Audit of Dysphagia-Related Services and Outcomes.DysphagiaA head and neck cancer pathway kept speech and dietetic appointments running, and swallowing outcomes mostly matched a prior research cohort. Complexity was the main staff barrier; the audit cannot show the pathway caused outcomes.
• Cohort2019Perspectives of parents and nurses on the content validity of the Family Empowerment Scale for parents of children with a chronic condition: A mixed-methods study.Child: care, health and developmentThe Dutch parent empowerment questionnaire was judged relevant and understandable for parents of children with a chronic condition, but ten items need wording changes before routine use.
• PTOther2019Assessment of gait kinetics in post-menopausal women using tri-axial ankle accelerometers during barefoot walking.Gait & postureAnkle accelerometers during barefoot lab walking estimated foot-strike force in 70 post-menopausal women. Walking speed added little, and was not required.
• SLPOther2019Sensitivity to Melody, Rhythm, and Beat in Supporting Speech-in-Noise Perception in Young Adults.Ear and hearingSensitivity to musical beat, but not melody or rhythm, strongly predicted better speech-in-noise perception in young adults. This link remained significant even after accounting for working memory and frequency discrimination.
• PTPilot2019Can action observation modulate balance performance in healthy subjects?Archives of physiotherapyIn healthy young adults, watching balance videos alone did not improve body sway more than doing nothing. Watching and imitating the videos, or doing balance exercises, reduced sway more than doing nothing.
• PTOTOther2019Psychometric Evaluation of the Improved Work-Disability Functional Assessment Battery.Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitationThe updated work-disability self-report generally gave consistent scores when answered twice five days apart, but some physical and mental health scales were less stable. This is not evidence it improves care.
• PTRCT2019Postural sway, falls, and self-reported neuropathy in aging female cancer survivors.Gait & postureIn older female cancer survivors after chemotherapy, side-to-side sway frequency was associated with self-reported falls. Neuropathy symptoms were associated with higher-frequency sway. Overall sway magnitude was not associated with falls across the whole survivor group.
• SLPOther2019In a Concurrent Memory and Auditory Perception Task, the Pupil Dilation Response Is More Sensitive to Memory Load Than to Auditory Stimulus Characteristics.Ear and hearingWhen people memorize words while listening, pupil dilation stops tracking how hard the speech is to hear. It tracks memory load instead. Semantic cues help hearing but confuse recall, as people mix up the cue words with the sentence they just heard.
• SLPOther2019Social Conformity in Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAutistic adults conformed to incorrect group answers just as often as neurotypical adults. They also maintained these false beliefs after learning the group was wrong, showing no difference in susceptibility to social influence.
• PTRCT2019Group-Based Individualized Comprehensive Core Stability Intervention Improves Balance in Persons With Multiple Sclerosis: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Physical therapyIn 79 ambulant people with MS, a 6-week programme combining individual examination, group core-stability sessions, and home exercises improved trunk control and balance versus standard care, with gains at 30 weeks.
• PTCohort2019Response to Conservative Treatment for Thumb Carpometacarpal Osteoarthritis Is Associated With Conversion to Surgery: A Prospective Cohort Study.Physical therapyIn 701 patients with thumb base osteoarthritis given an orthosis, hand therapy, and home exercises, better pain scores and greater pain improvement were linked to a lower chance of surgery over a mean 2.2 years. Function improvement did not show this link.
• PTRCT2018Muscle fatigue assessment during robot-mediated movements.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationA wrist robot test showed fatigue-related muscle changes in 40 healthy adults without maximal effort. The most consistent onset marker appeared within the first 25 movements. It was not tested in patients, so it does not change care.
• PTOther2018Use of a Low-Cost, Chest-Mounted Accelerometer to Evaluate Transfer Skills of Wheelchair Users During Everyday Activities: Observational Study.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologiesA chest accelerometer could judge parts of transfer technique and detect wheelchair transfers in nine users, but the study did not test whether this helps patients.
• PTOTSLPCohort2018Associations Between Medical History, Cognition, and Behavior in Youth With Down Syndrome: A Report From the Down Syndrome Cognition Project.American journal on intellectual and developmental disabilitiesSevere birth defects like heart and gut surgeries did not predict worse cognition or behavior in 234 youths with Down syndrome. Lower income and later early intervention did predict poorer outcomes. Parents of children with gut defects reported unexpectedly better executive function skills.
• PTRCT2018Validating attentive locomotion training using interactive treadmill: an fNIRS study.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationHealthy young adults showed more brain activity in walking-related areas when using an interactive treadmill that asked them to match changing target speeds, especially at faster relative speeds.
• PTPilot2018A Web-Based Knowledge Translation Resource for Families and Service Providers (The "F-Words" in Childhood Disability Knowledge Hub): Developmental and Pilot Evaluation Study.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologiesMost survey respondents found a childhood-disability website useful: 61 of 66 rated it user-friendly, and 58 of 63 said it increased their understanding. It does not show patient outcomes changed.
• SLPOther2019Characterizing the Flow of Thickened Barium and Non-barium Liquid Recipes Using the IDDSI Flow Test.DysphagiaTested barium recipes could be made to match IDDSI slightly to moderately thick levels and stay stable over time, but adding barium often thickened liquids more than the same non-barium recipe.