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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• PTOTCase-Control2022Individuals with Higher Levels of Physical Activity after Stroke Show Comparable Patterns of Myelin to Healthy Older Adults.Neurorehabilitation and neural repairStroke survivors who were more physically active showed brain myelin patterns comparable to healthy older adults, unlike those with low activity levels. This suggests physical activity may protect against myelin asymmetry after stroke, independent of motor impairment or arm use differences.
• OTSLPCohort2022Diagnostic- and sex-based differences in depression symptoms in autistic and neurotypical early adolescents.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic early adolescents reported more severe depressive symptoms than neurotypical peers, with females reporting higher severity than males. These effects were additive, meaning autistic females had the highest scores. Autistic youth specifically endorsed more interpersonal problems and negative self-esteem, including beliefs of worthlessness.
• OTOther2022COVID-19 vaccine website accessibility dashboard.Disability and health journalState COVID-19 vaccine websites contained accessibility errors that could block people with disabilities. Insufficient text contrast was the most common issue. Registration portals often required visual CAPTCHAs without audio options, creating barriers for blind or visually impaired users.
• SLPOther2022Can filled pauses be represented as linguistic items? Investigating the effect of exposure on the perception and production of um.Language and speechThis paper explores whether 'um' and 'uh' are processed as linguistic items in the mind. It contains no clinical data or treatment outcomes relevant to therapy practice.
• SLPNarrative Review20223D-CT Evaluation of Swallowing: Metrics of the Swallowing Response Using Swallowing CT.DysphagiaThis review describes how 3D CT scanning captures swallowing motion in detail. It reports that thin liquids trigger earlier vocal cord closure than thick liquids, and that head rotation significantly changes pharynx shape. It offers no clinical evidence that these findings improve patient outcomes.
• PTOTQualitative2022Walking activities beyond gait training: Priorities in everyday life for parents and adolescents in pediatric neurorehabilitation.Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicineParents prioritized school group movement and obstacle navigation, while adolescents focused on independent public transport use. These distinct priorities suggest gait therapy goals should shift from normalizing movement patterns to practicing specific, meaningful daily activities for each age group.
• SLPSurvey2022Emotional and Psychological Effects of Dysphagia: Validation of the Jugendwerk Dysphagia Emotion and Family Assessment (JDEFA).DysphagiaA new questionnaire gathered emotion and family impact answers from 94 people affected by swallowing problems. It is not ready to guide treatment decisions.
• OTCohort2021The impact of COVID-19 on the social inclusion of older adults with an intellectual disability during the first wave of the pandemic in Ireland.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDROlder adults with intellectual disabilities interviewed after the first lockdown reported significantly higher access to and use of technology, and more frequent family contact, than those interviewed before. Contact with friends and participation in social activities showed no significant difference.
• PTPilot2021Comparisons of trunk and knee mechanics during various speeds of treadmill running between runners with and without patellofemoral pain: a preliminary study.Journal of physical therapy scienceRunners with patellofemoral pain showed no difference in trunk posture or knee joint stress compared to pain-free runners at any speed. Slower running reduced joint stress in both groups, but pain status did not change how the body handled the load.
• PTCohort2021Safety of rehabilitation interventions for patients with hematologic diseases associated with low blood counts-verification focusing on blood cancer.Journal of physical therapy sciencePatients with low blood counts who were allowed to continue rehabilitation while admitted for hematologic disease had a shorter hospital stay than those whose rehabilitation was stopped. Fever was more common, but no falls or fractures were reported.
• PTOther2021Effects of isometric contraction of the quadriceps on the hardness and blood flow in the infrapatellar fat pad.Journal of physical therapy scienceLow-intensity quadriceps contraction made the infrapatellar fat pad harder during contraction, then blood oxygen markers fell during contraction and rose after it. This was measured in healthy young adults, not people with knee osteoarthritis.
• SLPPilot2021Establishing Reproducibility and Correlation of Cochlear Microphonic Amplitude to Implant Electrode Position Using Intraoperative Electrocochleography and Postoperative Cone Beam Computed Tomography.Ear and hearingIntraoperative cochlear microphonic recordings were reproducible and correlated with electrode position in 13 of 14 ears. However, they did not reliably predict hearing preservation, with only 7 of 13 traces correctly forecasting the outcome. Predicted thresholds were too inaccurate for clinical use in fitting hybrid devices.
• PTRCT2021Effects of inner muscle resistance exercise on stress urinary incontinence: a randomized clinical controlled trial.Journal of physical therapy scienceStress urinary incontinence was reported cured in 14 of 16 women after transverse abdominal plus pelvic-floor co-contraction with Thera-band resistance and 11 of 16 after pelvic-floor exercise alone, but the paper did not report whether that difference was more than chance.
• PTSurvey2021Changes in the awareness and understanding of trunk muscle training in high school athletes.Journal of physical therapy scienceHigh school soccer players improved their knowledge of trunk muscle classification since 2013, but few understood the purpose of the training. Top-level teams knew significantly more than lower-level teams, suggesting that understanding anatomy may be linked to competition level.
• SLPOther2021A Measure of Long-Term Hearing Aid Use Persistence Based on Battery Reordering Data.Ear and hearingBattery reorder records can estimate whether hearing aid use continued long term, but not how much daily use occurred. They aligned with appointment patterns, early reported use, age and hearing loss, yet depend on assumptions and miss some users.
• PTOther2021Relationship between skeletal muscle mass and blood lactate level reduction after short squat jumps in healthy adult non-athletes.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn 15 healthy non-athletic men, more skeletal muscle mass was linked to larger drops in blood lactate after a short squat-jump exercise. The study shows association, not that building muscle causes faster lactate clearance.
• OTSLPCohort2021Peer preferences and characteristics of same-group and cross-group social interactions among autistic and non-autistic adolescents.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic students strongly preferred interacting with other autistic peers, while non-autistic students showed no significant preference for either group. Over five months, both groups increasingly sought out same-neurotype partners. Social interactions between autistic peers were more reciprocal and relational than those across neurotypes.
• PTOTSLPQualitative2021Dementia in people with severe or profound intellectual (and multiple) disabilities: Focus group research into relevance, symptoms and training needs.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDCarers and families of people with severe intellectual disabilities want a dementia diagnosis to explain behaviour and guide care choices. They identified subtle declines in daily activities like eating and dressing as key signs. Current training lacks specific guidance for this population.
• SLPCohort2021The Sensitivity of the Electrically Stimulated Auditory Nerve to Amplitude Modulation Cues Declines With Advanced Age.Ear and hearingThe auditory nerve's ability to track amplitude modulation cues declines with advanced age in cochlear implant users. However, the duration of deafness showed no reliable relationship with this neural sensitivity, likely because measuring deafness duration accurately is difficult.
• SLPOther2021Individual Variability in Recalibrating to Spectrally Shifted Speech: Implications for Cochlear Implants.Ear and hearingHalf of normal-hearing listeners successfully adjusted their perception to match shifted speech frequencies, while the other half failed completely. This bimodal split suggests that cochlear implant users may vary significantly in their ability to adapt to frequency mismatches caused by shallow electrode insertion.
• PTOTSLPOther2021The effects of neuromuscular joint facilitation treatment using neck patterns on the acoustic analysis of swallowing sounds in healthy adults.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn healthy adults, a new neck resistance technique produced swallowing sounds with higher amplitude and frequency than resting, matching the traditional Shaker exercise. Since participants had no swallowing disorders and outcomes were acoustic rather than clinical, this does not show the treatment improves swallowing in patients.
• SLPOtherThe Presence of Another Individual Influences Listening Effort, But Not Performance.Ear and hearingYoung people with normal hearing showed increased pupil dilation, suggesting higher listening effort, when performing a speech-in-noise task in the presence of another person. However, their actual speech perception performance did not change. The effort increase was most apparent when the partner joined at the start.
• OTSLPCohort2022Brief Report: The Influence of Autism Severity and Depression on Self-Determination Among Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAutism symptom severity, not depression, predicted lower self-determination in 59 young adults. While more severe autism correlated with higher depression, only autism severity uniquely explained reduced self-determination. Clinical focus should target autism-related barriers to goal-setting rather than mood alone.
• PTOTSurvey2022Physical activity levels and shoulder pain in wheelchair users during COVID-19 restrictions.Disability and health journalDuring UK lockdown, wheelchair users reported no change in leisure-time physical activity at mild, moderate, or heavy levels. Daily wheelchair use and chair transfers decreased, but these changes were not linked to new or worse shoulder pain.
• Other2022Development of a Computational Policy Model for Comparing the Effect of Compensation Scheme Policies on Recovery After Workplace Injury.Journal of occupational rehabilitationA computer simulation of a workers' compensation scheme suggested that policies promoting early return to work, even with occupational rehabilitation support, led to higher costs and longer claim durations than recovery outside the workplace. However, the model is uncalibrated and its numbers cannot be used for real-world forecasting.
• SLPQualitative2022Not Just Dyspnoea: Swallowing as a Concern for Adults with Laryngotracheal Stenosis Undergoing Airway Reconstruction.DysphagiaPatients with airway stenosis described swallowing difficulties as a hidden burden they managed alone by hiding symptoms or drinking water. They wanted clear explanations about why they were kept nil by mouth and felt frustrated by clinicians distrusting their ability to eat safely.
• SLPRCT2022Early speech and language intervention in Brazilian-Portuguese toddlers with cleft lip and/or palate.Clinical linguistics & phoneticsToddlers with cleft palate who received a combined speech and language intervention showed significant gains in vocabulary and sentence complexity immediately after treatment. Speech accuracy and intelligibility improved significantly three months later, while the comparison group showed no such gains.
• PTOTSLPCohort2022Medical symptoms and conditions in autistic women.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic women reported higher rates of prediabetes symptoms, reproductive diagnoses, and irregular puberty. Metabolic conditions like diabetes were less common, possibly due to lower healthcare access. Clinicians should screen for these sex-steroid-related issues in autistic women.
• Qualitative2022Homeward bound: Exploring the motives of mothers who brought their offspring with intellectual disabilities home from residential settings during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDMothers brought their adult children with intellectual disabilities home during lockdown because they distrusted the residential staff's commitment to safety and felt their own protective instincts were essential. They described a long-standing tension between wanting autonomy for their children and fearing the services would not advocate for them.
• SLPOther2022Naturalistic Use of Aspect Morphology in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children.Journal of child languageDeaf and hard-of-hearing children paired past tense and -ing forms with event types like normal-hearing peers. Reduced acoustic access did not disrupt this grammatical aspect pattern. They still produced fewer past tense forms and fewer final consonant clusters.
• SLPPilot2022Scoring the Penetration-Aspiration Scale (PAS) in Two Conditions: A Reliability Study.DysphagiaScoring swallowing videos as whole studies or as isolated random swallows showed no significant difference in how consistently raters scored airway invasion severity. This pilot was small, so clinicians should not assume either method is proven.
• PTOTCohort2022Impairments in Cognitive Control Using a Reverse Visually Guided Reaching Task Following Stroke.Neurorehabilitation and neural repairMost stroke participants were impaired on a reverse reaching task, including with their less affected arm. A simple reaching test missed reverse-reaching problems in 27.1% of participants with the less affected arm.
• OTSLPQualitative2022"I Spent Most of Freshers in my Room"-A Qualitative Study of the Social Experiences of University Students on the Autistic Spectrum.Journal of autism and developmental disordersTen autistic university students described being selective about friends, valuing quality over quantity, and hiding their diagnosis from peers due to fear of stereotypes. They found quiet spaces, non-alcohol events, and social mentoring helpful. This is one small group's experience, not evidence that any approach works.
• SLPOther2022Is it Possible to Assess the Two-Domain Definition of the Broad Autism Phenotype Using the Available Measurement Tools?Journal of autism and developmental disordersThree common autism-phenotype questionnaires did not fully capture the updated broad autism phenotype. Across 349 students, their 13 subscales grouped into two broad patterns, but restricted/repetitive behaviour items were underrepresented, especially sensory and motor items.
• Other2022Reorganization of Ventral Premotor Cortex After Ischemic Brain Injury: Effects of Forced Use.Neurorehabilitation and neural repairForced use did not clearly add to premotor map expansion beyond lesion size in four squirrel monkeys after motor cortex infarcts, although affected-limb recovery appeared faster than in naturally recovering monkeys.
• SLPOther2022Alexithymic But Not Autistic Traits Impair Prosocial Behavior.Journal of autism and developmental disordersIn healthy adults, higher alexithymia scores linked to less prosocial behavior in a resource allocation task. Autistic traits showed no such link. This suggests that difficulties identifying emotions, rather than autistic traits themselves, may drive reduced cooperation in this experimental setting.
• OTCase Report2022Competitive motivation increased home use and improved prosthesis self-perception after Cybathlon 2020 for neuromusculoskeletal prosthesis user.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationFor one prosthesis user, Cybathlon training and competition were followed by more active home use and feeling more positive about the arm. He said tasks like tying shoes became possible, but this is one case, not proof the event works for others.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2022Evidence-based position paper of the UEMS PRM on the role of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM) physician in the management of children and adults with spinal dysraphism.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicineThis consensus statement defines the role of the rehabilitation physician in managing spinal dysraphism across the lifespan. It recommends interdisciplinary team care, ICF-based assessment, and lifelong follow-up, but provides no evidence on whether these interventions improve patient outcomes.
• SLPOther2022Rigorous Qualitative Research Involving Data Collected Remotely From People With Communication Disorders: Experience From a Telerehabilitation Trial.Neurorehabilitation and neural repairFor remote research interviews with people with aphasia, the authors recommend aphasia-friendly forms, shorter sessions, screen sharing, trained interviewers and clear caregiver roles. These are expert recommendations, not tested interventions.
• SLPOther2022Radiation Effective Doses to Adults Undergoing Modified Barium Swallow Studies.DysphagiaModified Barium Swallow Studies expose adults to an average effective dose of 0.32 mSv, classifying them as low-dose exams comparable to chest x-rays. This data supports using MBSS for diagnosis without excessive radiation fear, provided ALARA principles remain in place.
• PTOther2021Correlation between change in pain, disability, and surface electromyography topographic parameters after interferential current treatment in patients with chronic low back pain.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn 29 patients with chronic low back pain, pain and disability scores were lower after 6 weeks of interferential current, and a flexion muscle signal change tracked pain change. There was no control group, so this cannot show the treatment caused the improvement.
• PTOTCase Report2021Physical therapy for multiple myeloma patients with severely hindered daily living activities due to bone lesions: a report of two cases.Journal of physical therapy scienceTwo patients with multiple myeloma and severe bone lesions moved from bedridden to independent walking without adverse events. Therapists used Borg scale 13 and mild pain limits to guide safe, long-term physical therapy that helped them qualify for stem cell transplants.
• PTCase-Control2021Dynamic balance ability in single-leg drop jump landing in junior female athletes after shin splints-assessment from a preventive perspective.Journal of physical therapy scienceJunior female athletes who had recovered from shin splints showed greater early body sway and higher landing forces on the previously injured leg compared to the healthy leg. This suggests lingering dynamic balance deficits despite returning to sport.
• PTPilot2021Measurement reliability and cooperative movement of the pelvic floor and transverse abdominal muscles.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn seven healthy women, ultrasound reliably measured pelvic floor and abdominal muscle thickness. Co-contracting the transverse abdominal and pelvic floor muscles produced greater bladder floor elevation than contracting either alone. This suggests these muscles work together, but the study was too small to prove clinical benefit.
• PTCohort2021Factors associated with balance impairments amongst stroke survivors in northern Benin: A cross-sectional study.The South African journal of physiotherapyIn 54 stroke survivors in Benin, 24.07% had balance impairments. Fewer physiotherapy sessions and greater disability severity were linked to worse balance. Age, sex and stroke type showed no significant association.
• PTSLPRCT2021Combined effect of pulmonary rehabilitation and music therapy in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.Journal of physical therapy scienceAdding music therapy to pulmonary rehabilitation raised an airflow ratio from 52.84% to 64.94% and 6-minute walk distance from 233.05 m to 306.30 m; depression and anxiety scores did not change.
• SLPOtherThe Effects of Task Difficulty Predictability and Noise Reduction on Recall Performance and Pupil Dilation Responses.Ear and hearingFor hearing aid users, noise reduction improved recall of spoken words from 71.9% to 76.6%. Telling participants the upcoming list length did not change recall, though it did alter pupil dilation. Noise reduction helps memory for speech even when the speech is already clear.
• SLPQualitative2022The experiences of psychologists working with people with intellectual disabilities during the COVID-19 crisis.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDPsychologists working with people with intellectual disabilities reported that remote sessions made it difficult to notice non-verbal cues. They focused on coaching support staff to manage anxiety and challenging behaviours, while improvising creative ways to maintain contact.
• PTOTSLPCohort2022Cerebral cortex maldevelopment in syndromic craniosynostosis.Developmental medicine and child neurologyChildren with FGFR-related craniosynostosis had larger brain volumes than controls, but their cortical surface area did not scale proportionally. This mismatch was most severe in the parietal and occipital lobes. Almost all patients requiring modified education belonged to this FGFR group.
• SLPOther2022A broadened estimate of syntactic and lexical ability from the MB-CDI.Journal of child languageOn the MB-CDI Words & Sentences form, everyday word knowledge and grammar/function word knowledge separate. Grammar lags words, beginning around 20 to 24 months, and the 8 to 18 month form does not give a usable grammar score.