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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• SLPCohort2022From DYMUS to DYPARK: Validation of a Screening Questionnaire for Dysphagia in Parkinson's Disease.DysphagiaA DYMUS score of 6 flagged higher swallowing risk in Parkinson's disease. Patients and caregivers gave similar scores, supporting use before specialist swallowing tests.
• PTOTRCT2022Bilateral Movement-based Computer Games Improve Sensorimotor Functions in Subacute Stroke Survivors.Journal of rehabilitation medicineAdding 30 minutes of bilateral computer gaming to standard therapy improved arm movement and daily function in subacute stroke survivors more than video exercises alone. The gaming group showed greater gains in upper limb impairment and activity scores, with benefits lasting one month after treatment ended.
• PTOTCohort2022Psychological Distress, Pain and Insurance Claims Negatively Affect Long-Term Health-Related Quality of Life After Road Traffic Injuries.Journal of rehabilitation medicineAt 12 months after road traffic injury, higher early pain, psychological distress and insurance claims were linked with poorer physical and mental quality of life, even after accounting for injury severity.
• PTOTOther2022Physical rehabilitation interventions in children with acquired brain injury: a scoping review.Developmental medicine and child neurologyNine studies mapped physical rehab for children with acquired brain injury, but none reported intervention intensity. While all showed positive body-function gains, the evidence is too heterogeneous to prove which treatments work best or how much practice is needed.
• PTOTOther2022Test-retest reliability of the Arabic translation of the Lower Extremity Functional Status of the Orthotics and Prosthetics Users' Survey.Prosthetics and orthotics internationalThe Arabic translation of the Lower Extremity Functional Status scale is stable over time. Scores from 63 patients remained consistent when retested 5 to 7 days later, allowing therapists to trust changes in a patient's score as real functional shifts rather than measurement error.
• Other2022The Cross-Country Comparison Model for Labor Participation (CCC Model for LP) of Persons with Chronic Diseases.Journal of occupational rehabilitationA new framework helps compare why employment rates for people with chronic diseases differ between countries. It looks at laws, professional norms, culture, how care is organized, and labor markets. It offers no evidence that any specific treatment improves work participation.
• PTOTSystematic Review2022Vestibular Rehabilitation for Peripheral Vestibular Hypofunction: An Updated Clinical Practice Guideline From the Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy of the American Physical Therapy Association.Journal of neurologic physical therapy : JNPTVestibular physical therapy is strongly recommended for adults with unilateral or bilateral vestibular hypofunction to improve balance, gaze stability, and quality of life. Supervised therapy and specific gaze stabilization exercises with head movement are effective, while eye movement exercises alone are not.
• PTCohort2022Digitally Delivered Exercise and Education Treatment Program for Low Back Pain: Longitudinal Observational Cohort Study.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologiesAfter 3 months in a digital back-pain program, pain fell by 1.7 points, and 58.50% reached a meaningful improvement. No control group means the program cannot be proven to cause this.
• SLPOther2022Assessment of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Deaf Adults with Intellectual Disability: Feasibility and Psychometric Properties of an Adapted Version of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2).Journal of autism and developmental disordersAn adapted autism assessment worked for 56 deaf adults with intellectual disability. It was completed in 98% of cases, averaging 28 minutes. Two experts agreed on most scores, though results for repetitive behaviors were less reliable than for social interaction.
• PTProtocol2022Development of a Coaching Protocol to Enhance Self-efficacy Within Outpatient Physical Therapy.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationNo clinical outcomes are reported. The paper describes developing a coaching protocol for physical therapists to integrate behavioral change tools into exercise programs. Initial feedback from 16 participants suggested the tools were useful, but efficacy is untested.
• Other2022Promising Practices in the Frontiers of Quality Outcome Measurement for Intellectual and Developmental Disability Services.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesNo clinical treatment finding is reported; the paper describes outcome measurement practices for U.S. disability services.
• SLPCohort2022Long-Term Treatment Outcomes of PEERS® for Preschoolers: A Parent-Mediated Social Skills Training Program for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersChildren with autism who completed PEERS for Preschoolers kept reduced social impairment and more playdates 1 to 5 years later, but social skills compared with same-age peers and problem behaviors returned toward baseline.
• SLPCohort2022Variation in Auditory Experience Affects Language and Executive Function Skills in Children Who Are Hard of Hearing.Ear and hearingChildren who are hard of hearing had weaker vocabulary and some working memory and attention skills than matched hearing peers. In this group, better vocabulary and more speech access from hearing aid use, fitting, and unaided hearing were linked to stronger executive function.
• Protocol2022Evaluation of Allied Healthcare in Patients Recovering from Covid-19: Study Protocol and Baseline Data of s National Prospective Cohort Study.Journal of rehabilitation medicine
• SLPOther2022No Benefit of Deriving Cochlear-Implant Maps From Binaural Temporal-Envelope Sensitivity for Speech Perception or Spatial Hearing Under Single-Sided Deafness.Ear and hearingIn nine people with one deaf ear and a cochlear implant, frequency maps built from how well the two ears matched timing did not improve localization or speech-in-noise over standard maps after six months. The maps did not worsen performance.
• PTOTOther2021The effect of static stretching on key hits and subjective fatigue in eSports.Journal of physical therapy scienceA 20-second forearm stretch restored finger tapping speed to baseline for the first 10 seconds after fatigue. This benefit appeared in 7 of 15 participants, who were those with higher initial speed. Subjective fatigue scores did not improve.
• PTOther2021Relationships among lumbar hip motion angle, perceptual awareness, and low back pain in young adults.Journal of physical therapy scienceYoung adults with persistent low back pain who reported more disability had less lumbar movement and more hip movement during forward bending, and higher back awareness scores. Pain intensity was not linked to these measures.
• PTOther2021The hotspots and trends of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and physical therapy: a bibliometric and visual analysis.Journal of physical therapy scienceBibliometric analysis mapped research trends linking physical therapy to COVID-19. High-frequency keywords included exercise, physical activity, and mental health. This overview identifies where research is concentrated but provides no clinical evidence to guide patient management.
• PTOTSLPCohort2021Early childhood neurodevelopmental outcome after open prenatal spina bifida aperta repair.Developmental medicine and child neurologyAt 2 years, cognition was low-average at 95.15, still lower than the norm mean of 100. Language and motor were also lower, with motor composite 77.78 and only 50.8% walking with or without devices.
• PTOTSLPOther2021The effect of a concomitant stroop task during sit-to-stand tasks on postural control.Journal of physical therapy scienceHealthy adults showed less body sway while doing a difficult four-word Stroop task during sit-to-stand movements than during an easier single-word task. The more complex cognitive challenge appeared to tighten postural control.
• PTRCT2021The difference in attentional focus during exercise affects attention resources.Journal of physical therapy scienceHealthy adults told to focus on a target or on their hand showed no clear difference in brain blood flow during a tennis ball task. The external focus group also tended to score higher, but the study did not show it.
• OTSurvey2022Sociocultural context and autistics' quality of life: A comparison between Québec and France.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic adults in Quebec reported better autism-specific quality of life than those in France. In both groups, experiencing autism-related abuse was linked to lower quality of life, along with anxiety, mood problems, chronic pain, and not working.
• SLPCohort2022Evaluation of Remote Check: A Clinical Tool for Asynchronous Monitoring and Triage of Cochlear Implant Recipients.Ear and hearingMost cochlear implant recipients found the Remote Check app easy to use at home. Self-administered hearing tests were reliable, but the aided threshold test took longer than in-clinic checks and yielded better results. It supports triaging patients but requires clinician oversight for interpretation.
• Qualitative2022A balancing act: An interpretive description of healthcare providers' and families' perspective on the surgical experiences of children with autism spectrum disorder.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceParents and providers described surgery for children with autism as a precarious balancing act. They valued individualized care, parent-provider collaboration, empathy, and autism-friendly environments, but providers still felt uncomfortable despite knowing strategies.
• PTOTSLPOther2022Feasibility of Virtual Reality Exercises at Home for Post-COVID-19 Condition: Cohort Study.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologiesMost patients with long COVID found home virtual reality exercises acceptable and usable. They used them for about 95 to 115 minutes weekly. Dizziness was a common side effect. Improvements in physical function were seen, but the study design cannot prove the exercises caused them.
• SLPCohort2022Progression of Oropharyngeal Dysphagia in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Dysphagia44 of 108 ALS patients already had swallowing impairment at first evaluation, and 64 developed it later. Bulbar onset and fast progression were linked to earlier dysphagia and feeding tube need.
• PTOTOther2022Association Between Temporal Asymmetry and Muscle Synergy During Walking With Rhythmic Auditory Cueing in Survivors of Stroke Living With Impairments.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationListening to a metronome while walking immediately increased stance time on the weaker leg and improved step symmetry in stroke survivors. The change in stance time was the main factor linked to more complex muscle coordination, not changes in joint angles.
• SLPOther2022Model Teachers or Model Students? A Comparison of Video Modelling Interventions for Improving Reading Fluency and Comprehension in Children with Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disordersFeedforward video self-modelling improved reading speed for two of four children with autism, while teacher-modelled video helped one child. Neither intervention consistently improved comprehension, and results varied widely by individual.
• OTSurvey2022Child and Parental Mental Health as Correlates of School Non-Attendance and School Refusal in Children on the Autism Spectrum.Journal of autism and developmental disordersParents reported children on the autism spectrum missed 6.3 full days and 3.8 half days over 20 school days. School refusal accounted for 57.2% of full-day absences. Parents not in paid work were linked to more absences.
• PTPilot2022Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blinded, Sham-Controlled Pilot Study of Intraneural Facilitation as a Treatment for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationIntraneural facilitation did not outperform sham exercises for carpal tunnel syndrome. Both groups improved similarly over 3 months. The study was too small to confirm any benefit, so this technique is not yet supported as a superior treatment.
• SLPOther2022Amount of Hearing Aid Use Impacts Neural Oscillatory Dynamics Underlying Verbal Working Memory Processing for Children With Hearing Loss.Ear and hearingChildren with mild-to-severe hearing loss whose parents reported more hearing aid use had brain activity during a letter memory task that looked more typical. Less use was linked to unusual activity, but everyday function was not tested.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2022Organization of Rehabilitation Services in Randomized Controlled Trials: Which Factors Influence Functional Outcome? A Systematic Review.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationInpatient stroke units and home-based cardiac rehab improved function more than general wards or hospital stays. Most other setting changes showed no difference. Service organization matters, but results depend heavily on the specific condition and intervention compared.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2022Use of Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Measures in Clinical Research in Patients With Stroke: A Systematic Literature Review.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationPROMIS measures are widely used in stroke research but rarely follow international guidelines for timing or reporting. Most data comes from US outpatient clinics with high-functioning patients, and inconsistent scoring directions make comparing results across studies impossible.
• PTOTSystematic Review2022Use of activPAL to Measure Physical Activity in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Systematic Review.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationThe activPAL thigh monitor reliably measures walking, step count, and sitting time in older adults, but it is inaccurate for moderate-to-vigorous activity. Use it to track low-intensity movement and sedentary behavior. Use a different device, such as a wrist-worn accelerometer, if you need to measure exercise intensity.
• Other2022Rethinking the tools in the toolbox.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationNo new patient outcomes are reported. This is an opinion piece arguing that current robotic walking devices may not need further trials as studied.
• SLPCohort2021Emotions in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing and Typically Hearing Children.Journal of deaf studies and deaf educationDeaf and hard-of-hearing children scored like hearing peers on empathy and emotion recognition. But only in the deaf group did high negative emotion expression link to more externalizing behaviors. Better speech perception did not predict fewer social difficulties.
• SLPOther2021Clinical Importance of Binaural Information: Extending Auditory Assessment in Clinical Populations Using a Portable Testing Platform.American journal of audiologyDichotic FM and spatial release from masking tests revealed hearing difficulties in people with normal or near-normal pure-tone thresholds. These portable binaural tests can confirm patient complaints when standard audiograms and speech-in-noise scores appear normal.
• PTOTSLPRCT2021Immediate effects of elongation training using an elastic band on the hip abductor muscles.Journal of physical therapy scienceElongation training using an elastic band shifted muscle activity toward the gluteus medius relative to the tensor fasciae latae compared to standard weight-band training. Neither method improved hip strength immediately. The band method may help target the gluteus medius more selectively.
• PTOther2021Chronological changes in neuromuscular cooperativeness before and after muscle fatigue loading using the silent period of the quadriceps and hamstrings in young female athletes.Journal of physical therapy scienceFatigue loading prolonged a lab measure of quadriceps-hamstring switching in the fatigued leg immediately and for 5 minutes. Pre-motor time did not change.
• PTRCT2021Immediate effects of neuromuscular joint facilitation treatment on vertebral artery blood flow.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn 16 healthy adults, neuromuscular joint facilitation neck resistance exercises immediately increased right vertebral artery systolic and average blood flow velocity. Blood pressure and heart rate did not change, and no patients with dizziness were tested.
• PTOther2021Quantitative analysis of approximate shapes in a myofiber cross-section and their relationship with myofiber cross-sectional area.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn rat soleus muscle, myofiber cross-sections were mostly pentagonal, quadrilateral or hexagonal. A weak positive correlation linked more corners to larger cross-sectional area. This basic science finding has no immediate application to human therapy.
• SLPPilot2021Apathy and actions- another consideration when theorizing about embodied nature of language in Parkinson's disease.Journal of communication disordersIn 20 people with Parkinson's, cueing improved action and animal fluency, suggesting retrieval problems rather than lost concepts. Self-reported inability to initiate actions correlated with poor verb generation, but only with behavioral apathy, not mood or other apathy types.
• SLPOtherWeighting of Prosodic and Lexical-Semantic Cues for Emotion Identification in Spectrally Degraded Speech and With Cochlear Implants.Ear and hearingNormal-hearing listeners rely on tone of voice, but cochlear implant users and those hearing simulated implant speech rely more on the words themselves. When tone and words conflict, implant users are better at catching the literal meaning but miss the sarcasm or true emotion conveyed by the voice.
• QualitativeCaregiver Perspectives on a Child's Diagnosis of 3q29 Deletion: "We Can't Just Wish This Thing Away".Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBPCaregivers of children with 3q29 deletion syndrome describe a difficult diagnostic journey and mixed feelings upon diagnosis. They report frustration with healthcare provider uncertainty and a lack of information, relying heavily on peer support groups to navigate the condition.
• SLPCohortGenotype-phenotype Correlation Study in a Large Series of Patients Carrying the p.Pro51Ser (p.P51S) Variant in COCH (DFNA9): Part I-A Cross-sectional Study of Hearing Function in 111 Carriers.Ear and hearingHearing loss in this genetic condition starts in the 30s for women and 40s for men, progressing to profound loss. Asymmetry between ears peaks in middle age. Hearing aids are typically needed around age 40 to 45, and cochlear implants by age 57 to 62.
• SLPOtherPredicting Audiovisual Word Recognition in Noisy Situations: Toward Precision Audiology.Ear and hearingAge does not reduce the ability to combine hearing and seeing speech. Older adults struggle only because their hearing or vision is worse. Predicting how well someone hears in noise depends on their single-sense scores, not their age.
• Cohort2022Diagnostic and Physical Effects in Parasympathetic Response to Social Evaluation in Youth With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersYouth with autism showed lower parasympathetic regulation than typically developing peers, but this difference disappeared once body mass index was accounted for. Higher BMI, not the diagnosis itself, was the primary driver of reduced vagal tone.
• SLPOther2022The Effect of Clear Speech on Cantonese Alaryngeal Speakers' Intelligibility.Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica : official organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP)Male Cantonese laryngectomees told to overarticulate and slow down had better sentence intelligibility than in habitual speech: scores rose by 9.1% with electrolarynx, 8.9% with esophageal speech, and 1.4% with tracheoesophageal speech.
• PTCohort2022Impact of Hearing Aid Use on Falls and Falls-Related Injury: Results From the Health and Retirement Study.Ear and hearingIn older adults, hearing aid use did not appear to change the link between self-reported hearing difficulty and falls or falls-related injury. Hearing difficulty itself was linked to more reported falls.
• PTOTPilot2022Adjunctive Inspiratory Muscle Training During a Rehabilitation Program in Patients With Breast Cancer: An Exploratory Double-Blind, Randomized, Controlled Pilot Study.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationAdding inspiratory muscle training to rehab for breast cancer survivors improved breathing muscle endurance and daily-life breathlessness versus sham. However, the primary measure of breathlessness during exercise showed no significant difference between groups.