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 324 OF 704 · NEWEST FIRST

• SLPPilot2019Monitoring of the Inner Ear Function During and After Cochlear Implant Insertion Using Electrocochleography.Trends in hearingIn 10 CI users, intracochlear electrocochleography matched hearing thresholds well post-surgery but failed to predict delayed hearing loss. Extracochlear recordings were faster for intraoperative use but correlated poorly with final outcomes, meaning neither method reliably forecasts residual hearing preservation.
• OTRCT2019Visual attention, EEG alpha power and T7-Fz connectivity are implicated in prosthetic hand control and can be optimized through gaze training.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationIn able-bodied users of a prosthetic hand simulator, gaze training led to faster task performance than movement instruction, more target-focused gaze, and reduced a brain signal associated with conscious verbal control.
• Other2019The Val66Met BDNF Polymorphism and Peripheral Nerve Injury: Enhanced Regeneration in Mouse Met-Carriers Is Not Further Improved With Activity-Dependent Treatment.Neurorehabilitation and neural repairIn mice with sciatic nerve injury, Met carriers showed enhanced motor reinnervation without treatment. Treadmill training helped only non-carriers, and light stimulation in cultured neurons did not help Met carriers. This is animal work and does not change human therapy.
• SLPCohort2019Long-term subjective loneliness in adults after hearing loss treatment.International journal of audiologyLong-term loneliness after hearing aid or cochlear implant treatment was near baseline at five years. Cochlear implant users improved at 6 and 12 months, but hearing aid users did not.
• PTQualitative2019Do physiotherapists have a role to play in the Sustainable Development Goals? A qualitative exploration.The South African journal of physiotherapySouth African academic physiotherapists saw their profession as able to contribute to health, education and women empowerment goals. They named HIV, chronic disease, maternal and child health, disability education and mentoring women.
• OTSurvey2019Social and nonsocial reward moderate the relation between autism symptoms and loneliness in adults with ASD, depression, and controls.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchIn adults with autism, loneliness was the strongest link to depressive symptoms. People with less pleasure in social and everyday activities were lonelier regardless of autism symptoms; people with more pleasure showed a stronger autism-loneliness link.
• PTOTSLPSurvey2019Technology-aided assessments of sensorimotor function: current use, barriers and future directions in the view of different stakeholders.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationClinicians and engineers agree that lack of time and high cost are the main barriers to using technology for assessments. They also cite difficulty interpreting results. Standardization is seen as the key step to make these tools useful in routine clinical practice.
• SLPCohort2019A frequent acoustic sign of speech motor delay (SMD).Clinical linguistics & phoneticsChildren and adults with speech motor delay had longer mid-vowel and diphthong durations in continuous speech than speech-delayed controls without motor speech disorder. This sign was frequent in USA and complex neurodevelopmental disorder groups.
• PTRCT2019A novel approach to improve hamstring flexibility: A single-blinded randomised clinical trial.The South African journal of physiotherapyQuadriceps activation after passive stretching improved hamstring flexibility by 13.4 degrees versus 6.2 degrees with stretching alone in young adults. Tibial nerve gliding did not clearly outperform stretching in this small trial.
• SLPQualitative2019Caregivers navigating rehabilitative care for people with aphasia after stroke: a multi-lens perspective.International journal of language & communication disordersCaregivers of people with aphasia acted as advocates, therapists, motivators and guardians. They pushed for timely therapy, used self-taught home speech practice, encouraged recovery, and managed insurance and work pressures.
• PTPilot2019Automatized, Standardized, and Patient-Tailored Progressive Walking-Adaptability Training: A Proof-of-Concept Study.Physical therapyPatients with gait or balance deficits completed 5 weeks of automated, patient-tailored treadmill training. Walking speed, balance, and confidence improved immediately and were retained 6 weeks later. No control group was used, so this shows the training is feasible and acceptable, not that it works better than usual care.
• Cohort2019Transition-Age Medicaid Coverage for Adolescents With Autism and Adolescents With Intellectual Disability.American journal on intellectual and developmental disabilitiesAdolescents with autism were 11% more likely to lose Medicaid coverage than those with intellectual disability, but this difference vanished when accounting for enrollment category. Most who lost coverage did not regain it within five years.
• Case-Control2019Electrophysiological alterations in motor-auditory predictive coding in autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchAutistic participants did not show the typical reduction in an early brain response to sounds they made themselves. Controls did. This is a laboratory neural difference, not evidence of a therapy target.
• PTOTSLPRCT2019Elements virtual rehabilitation improves motor, cognitive, and functional outcomes in adult stroke: evidence from a randomized controlled pilot study.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationIn 21 sub-acute stroke inpatients, adding Elements tabletop VR to usual occupational and physiotherapy produced larger gains on the Box and Blocks test, cognition screening, and self-rated daily function than usual therapy alone. Gains remained at one month. Small unblinded pilot.
• SLPRCT2019A Follow-Up Clinical Trial Evaluating the Consumer-Decides Service Delivery Model.American journal of audiologyOlder adults who chose amplified hearing aids reported more benefit on one main measure than those who chose no-gain devices. Other measures were less clear. When 32 participants later received audiologist-based fitting, outcomes improved.
• Survey2019Substance use among individuals with mild intellectual disability or borderline intellectual functioning in residential care: Examining the relationship between drinking motives and substance use.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDIn residential care, many people with mild intellectual disability or borderline intellectual functioning used alcohol and drugs. Drinking to cope or have fun, and to fit in, were linked to more severe use. Social motives were linked to more frequent use.
• PTOther2019Dynamic structure of variability in joint angles and center of mass position during user-driven treadmill walking.Gait & postureA user-driven treadmill that changed speed to match the walker produced more stride-to-stride variability in hip, knee, and ankle angles than fixed-speed treadmill in 11 healthy adults. Center of mass variability did not change.
• SLPRCT2019Improving storytelling and vocabulary in secondary school students with language disorder: a randomized controlled trial.International journal of language & communication disordersStandardized vocabulary scores did not improve more than waiting controls. Narrative skills did improve, and vocabulary gains appeared only on tests tied to the taught material.
• SLPSurvey2019Autism prevalence in China is comparable to Western prevalence.Molecular autismAutism prevalence in three Chinese cities was comparable to Western estimates, and mainstream schools had children with no previous diagnosis, suggesting under-diagnosis. Jilin total prevalence was 108.0 per 10,000.
• PTQualitative2019Perceptions of physiotherapy clinical educators' dual roles as mentors and assessors: Influence on teaching-learning relationships.The South African journal of physiotherapyPhysiotherapy educators who both mentor and assess students reported that switching roles caused inconsistencies, bias, and conflict. Students often felt intimidated, which blocked them from disclosing learning needs. Educators struggled to give negative feedback or fail students, fearing it would damage the teaching relationship.
• PTMeta-Analysis2019Effectiveness of physiotherapy interventions for improving erectile function and climacturia in men after prostatectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Clinical rehabilitationPelvic floor muscle training alone did not show improvement in erectile function or climacturia after prostate surgery. Some results for pelvic floor muscle training plus biofeedback or plus electrical stimulation pointed toward possible improvement, but they came from very few low-quality studies.
• PTOTCase-Control2019Stepping characteristics during externally induced lateral reactive and voluntary steps in chronic stroke.Gait & postureStroke survivors initiated voluntary steps slower than controls but reacted to perturbations just as fast. They used smaller, medial steps to recover balance, likely because weak hip muscles make the more stable lateral steps too difficult to execute quickly.
• Case-Control2019Social and delay discounting in autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchYoung people with autism valued delayed rewards and rewards given to close others less than matched peers, preferring immediate money for themselves. This was a small cognitive task study, not a treatment finding.
• SLPOther2019Verb and sentence processing patterns in healthy Italian participants: Insight from the Northwestern Assessment of Verbs and Sentences (NAVS).Journal of communication disordersYoung healthy Italian speakers took longer to name and understand verbs with more arguments, and longer to produce or understand object relatives and object clefts. The adapted NAVS task showed these speed differences, but it did not test people with aphasia.
• PTCohort2019Postdeployment Polytrauma Diagnoses Among Soldiers and Veterans Using the Veterans Health Affairs Polytrauma System of Care and Receipt of Opioids, Nonpharmacologic, and Mental Health Treatments.The Journal of head trauma rehabilitationPost-deployment soldiers and veterans using VHA polytrauma care often had chronic pain (76.5%), PTSD (53.1%) or TBI (48.6%), frequently together; mental health treatment was common (83.8%), while opioid prescriptions (26.6%) and physical therapy-based care were less frequent.
• SLPOther2019Attention in Bilingual Children With Developmental Language Disorder.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHRSpanish-English bilingual children did not outperform monolingual peers on nonlinguistic visual attention tasks. Children with DLD had poorer sustained attention and poorer attentional control, whether they spoke one or two languages.
• PTSystematic Review2019Balance and the brain: A review of structural brain correlates of postural balance and balance training in humans.Gait & postureBalance was linked most often to cerebellar, basal ganglia, thalamus, hippocampal, and inferior parietal brain regions, but scan changes after training were inconsistent and did not prove a treatment works.
• Case-Control2019Association Between Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration and Autism Spectrum Disorder in Preschool Children Enrolled in the Study to Explore Early Development.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchBreastfeeding initiation did not differ between children with autism and controls after accounting for family and pregnancy factors. Among breastfed children, those with autism were breastfed for shorter durations.
• SLPPilot2019Therapist-Guided Tablet-Based Telerehabilitation for Patients With Aphasia: Proof-of-Concept and Usability Study.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologiesPatients and therapists rated the Bern Aphasia App usable. Patients found training enjoyable and not stressful. The study did not test whether the app improves aphasia language outcomes.
• Qualitative2019How does societal reaction to children's health issues contribute to health policy in Europe? Results of a survey.Child: care, health and developmentCountry experts described 71 public concerns about child health across Europe, grouped into themes such as vaccine safety, poverty and child abuse. It reports debate and policy responses, not patient outcomes.
• SLPSystematic Review2019Consequential differences in perspectives and practices concerning children with developmental language disorders: an integrative review.International journal of language & communication disordersPublished speech and language therapy literature treats developmental language disorder as a child language deficit. Education literature treats it as a learning need shaped by classroom context. These differences affect how professionals define goals and assess children in school collaboration.
• SLPRCT2019Effects of Phonomotor Treatment on discourse production.AphasiologyIn 26 people with chronic aphasia, 60 hours of Phonomotor Treatment was followed by more efficient communication right after treatment, while speech became more informative at three months, not immediately.
• Other2019Effects of Dementia Care Mapping on well-being and quality of life of older people with intellectual disability: A quasi-experimental study.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDDementia Care Mapping did not improve quality of life in older people with intellectual disability compared with usual care. The main staff-reported score did not change more in DCM homes than usual care homes at 7 or 14 months.
• PTOther2019Deficits in tapping accuracy and variability in tremor patients.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationPeople with Parkinson’s disease tapped less accurately at 2 Hz and more variably at 4 Hz than people with essential tremor or healthy controls. These differences are not enough to use tapping as a clinical diagnostic test.
• PTOther2019Benefits and challenges with gamified multi-media physiotherapy case studies: a mixed method study.Archives of physiotherapyPhysiotherapy students perceived gamified virtual patient cases as motivating and enjoyable, especially real patient videos, leaderboards and interactive activities. They wanted clearer feedback and better team participation.
• PTCohort2019Health professionals' referral practice and related healthcare utilization for people with low back pain in Singapore: A retrospective study.Hong Kong physiotherapy journal : official publication of the Hong Kong Physiotherapy Association Limited = Wu li chih liao59.92% of patients with chronic low back pain in this Singapore tertiary pain clinic were referred for physiotherapy. Those referred reported more pain interference and poorer physical quality of life, but pain scores alone did not explain much of how many visits they used.
• SLPOther2019Effect of signal processing strategy and stimulation type on speech and auditory perception in adult cochlear implant users.International journal of audiologyIn ten adult cochlear implant users, changing among three Advanced Bionics strategies did not improve speech or auditory test scores. Sequential stimulation gave higher word scores and higher sentence scores in noise than paired stimulation, and listeners rated sound quality higher.
• PTNarrative Review2019Compliant lower limb exoskeletons: a comprehensive review on mechanical design principles.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationMost reviewed lower limb exoskeletons used compliant actuators with rigid frames. The review compares design choices for stroke, spinal cord injury and ageing, but reports no patient outcomes.
• Other2019The within-subject application of diffusion tensor MRI and CLARITY reveals brain structural changes in Nrxn2 deletion mice.Molecular autismIn mice with a deletion in the Nrxn2α gene, brain imaging showed altered fibre alignment and density in social-related regions, while total brain size and cell density were unchanged.
• PTNarrative Review2019Inspiratory Muscle Training in Patients with Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation: Narrative Review.Cardiopulmonary physical therapy journalFor ventilator-dependent patients, inspiratory muscle training can improve breathing muscle strength and may help weaning, but a trial found no difference in weaning or reintubation.
• Systematic Review2019A multifaceted approach for analyzing complex phenotypic data in rodent models of autism.Molecular autismNo clinical action is available. The paper reports a database of rodent autism models and drug rescue records, not human patients, therapy outcomes, or treatments tested in people.
• PTOther2019Can Biomechanics Research Lead to More Effective Treatment of Low Back Pain? A Point-Counterpoint Debate.The Journal of orthopaedic and sports physical therapyNo new patient outcomes are reported. This point-counterpoint debate about biomechanics and low back pain gives no treatment result to act on.
• SLPOther2019Singing Proficiency of Members of a Choir Formed by Prelingually Deafened Children With Cochlear Implants.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHRTen children with cochlear implants in an intensive 21-month choir, who also had daily speech training, home practice, prior speech therapy, and volunteer tutorials, sang pitch and tempo similarly to eight normal-hearing children on most measures. This is not proof of benefit.
• OTCase-Control2019Atypical event-related potentials revealed during the passive parts of a Go-NoGo task in autism spectrum disorder: a case-control study.Molecular autismAdolescents with autism had delayed early visual responses and stronger novelty-orientation responses during unstructured pauses in a computer task, despite normal performance when responding. Structured task performance did not reveal these differences.
• SLPOther2019Modulation of Tongue Pressure According to Liquid Flow Properties in Healthy Swallowing.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHRHealthy adults pressed harder and faster on the palate as liquids became thicker, and they took smaller sips. At the low barium concentration used, barium-containing liquids did not change tongue pressure compared with nonbarium liquids.
• PTNarrative Review2019Links between the Hip and the Lumbar Spine (Hip Spine Syndrome) as they Relate to Clinical Decision Making for Patients with Lumbopelvic Pain.PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitationHip and low back pain can overlap, and hip range of motion may influence lumbar motion. Hip arthroplasty sometimes improved low back pain, but causal links are unclear.
• PTOther2019Model Simulations Challenge Reductionist Research Approaches to Studying Chronic Low Back Pain.The Journal of orthopaedic and sports physical therapyA computer model of chronic low back pain suggests that when more than 11 factors contribute, less than 1% of simulated patients can be grouped by one dominant factor, and treating two or more factors may be more effective at population level.
• PTOther2019Predictors of Walking Efficiency in Children With Cerebral Palsy: Lower-Body Joint Angles, Moments, and Power.Physical therapyIn adolescents with cerebral palsy, less knee and hip extension while walking was linked to higher oxygen cost. Age changed which joint angles mattered, but the tested variables did not independently predict walking efficiency.
• PTPilot2019Error-augmentation gait training to improve gait symmetry in patients with non-traumatic lower limb amputation: A proof-of-concept study.Prosthetics and orthotics internationalFour adults with non-traumatic lower limb amputation completed a single error-augmentation treadmill session safely and found it acceptable. Gait symmetry changed, but responses varied and no consistent sustained improvement was seen.
• PTOTOther2019Quality of life after spinal cord injury in Thai individuals: A mixed-methods study.Hong Kong physiotherapy journal : official publication of the Hong Kong Physiotherapy Association Limited = Wu li chih liaoThai people with spinal cord injury had much lower physical health than Thai norms. Their vitality and social functioning were not lower. Interviews tied quality of life to paid work, personal assistants, accessible environments, stigma and self-advocacy.