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 456 OF 704 · NEWEST FIRST

• PTOTCase Report2022Case Report: Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation in the Chronic Spinal Cord Injury Patient.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesOne patient with chronic tetraplegia improved in sitting balance and self-care after ten sessions combining noise galvanic vestibular stimulation, vestibular exercises, and neurofunctional physical therapy. Because several treatments were given together, the contribution of the electrical stimulation alone cannot be separated.
• PTOTSLPOther2022Limitation of developmental test to measure functional independence of children: Relationship between the Japanese version of WeeFIM II® and KSPD.Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicineDevelopmental test scores do not reliably predict how much daily support a child needs. For children under two, the link is negligible for most tasks. Only for older children does the test correlate moderately with independence, and even then, it fails to fully explain required support.
• Other2022Leisure and Leisure Education as Resources for Rehabilitation Supports for Chronic Condition Self-Management in Rural and Remote Communities.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesNo new results are reported. Leisure education is proposed as a resource for chronic self-management in rural and remote communities.
• SLPOther2022The Relationship Between Interaural Insertion-Depth Differences, Scalar Location, and Interaural Time-Difference Processing in Adult Bilateral Cochlear-Implant Listeners.Trends in hearingBilateral CI users with more electrodes in the scala tympani had better time-difference sensitivity. Larger insertion-depth mismatches broadened tuning curves, reducing precision. Apical stimulation yielded poorer sensitivity than mid-basal sites.
• SLPSurvey2022Participants' perspective on a COVID-19 online vocal group stimulation for people with Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesPeople with Parkinson's disease who joined an online daily voice group reported feeling less isolated and more confident in their communication. Most had never received speech therapy before. Participants valued the social connection and perceived benefits to their voice and swallowing.
• SLPQualitative2022Nurses' and preschool teachers' experiences of taking part in a participatory intervention project in communication-intense working environments.Work (Reading, Mass.)Nine female staff at a preschool and an obstetrics ward reported increased awareness of noise risks and greater acceptance of hearing protection devices. They described taking individual and shared responsibility to reduce noise, such as lowering voices and moving conversations to secluded areas. However, high workload and limited resources hindered the intervention, and psychosocial improvements were largely absent.
• OTQualitative2022Cocreation from Emerging Opportunities: Occupational Therapists' Perspectives on Supporting Older Persons, in Japan.Occupational therapy internationalTherapists described moving beyond fixed goals to seize emerging opportunities, such as a client's new social role from a craft or a terminal patient's wish to wander. They co-created flexible plans with clients and staff, adapting interventions as the client's vision of their future life evolved.
• Other2022Toward More Inclusive Work Organizations by Redesigning Work.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesThis article describes a workplace redesign strategy for employers but reports no clinical outcomes, comparison groups, or patient data. It offers no evidence that therapists can use to change patient care or rehabilitation results.
• Other2022The Impact of Slice Interval and Equation on the Accuracy of Magnetic Resonance Image Estimation of Quadriceps Muscle Volume in End Stage Liver Disease.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesIn 38 people with end stage liver disease, quadriceps MRI volume estimates were less error-prone using the truncated cone formula than the cylindrical formula. Wider slice interval increased error, but at 4 cm error stayed under 2%.
• PTCohort2022Correlations Between Preseason Functional Test Scores and Game Performance in Female Collegiate Volleyball Players.International journal of sports physical therapyPreseason jump and agility tests showed low to moderate links to game stats, with starters outperforming nonstarters. The Y-Balance Test results were inconsistent and poorly predictive. Coaches should rely on jump and hop tests for talent ID, not balance tests.
• SLPOther2022Baseline pupil size encodes task-related information and modulates the task-evoked response in a speech-in-noise task.Trends in hearingBaseline pupil size reflects listening effort and task familiarity, not just resting state. In a speech-in-noise task, baselines constricted as trials progressed and differed by noise type. Ignoring baseline changes distorts how we interpret pupil dilation as a measure of cognitive load.
• OTSurvey2022Psychosocial work environment and health when entering or leaving a managerial position.Work (Reading, Mass.)New managers reported higher demands and more authority after entering the role. Former managers moved into lower-demand work situations but kept high control and skill use. Burnout symptoms and flow did not change clearly.
• SLPOther2022Evaluating Verbal Fluency Outcome Measures in Children With Down Syndrome.American journal on intellectual and developmental disabilitiesSemantic fluency tasks work for children with Down syndrome over age 10, but phonemic tasks fail because many children cannot produce enough words. Use category naming, not letter naming, for outcome measures in this population.
• PTCase Report2022Delayed Recovery after Nonoperative Treatment of an Avulsion Fracture of the Ischial Tuberosity in an Adolescent Gymnast with a History of Growth Hormone Deficiency: A Case Report.International journal of sports physical therapyA 15-year-old gymnast with prior growth hormone deficiency took 12 months to return to competition after nonoperative treatment of an ischial tuberosity avulsion fracture, longer than the expected three months.
• Narrative Review2022Sexual Health and Women Living With Spinal Cord Injury: The Unheard Voice.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesThis paper reviews the lack of research on sexual health for women with spinal cord injury. It highlights that current care often ignores psychosocial needs like body image and emotional connection. No new treatments or outcomes were tested.
• Other2022Deletion of Fmr1 in parvalbumin-expressing neurons results in dysregulated translation and selective behavioral deficits associated with fragile X syndrome.Molecular autismIn mice, deleting the fragile X gene in parvalbumin neurons caused anxiety and social novelty deficits but spared learning. Deleting it in somatostatin neurons had no behavioral effect. This identifies a specific cellular vulnerability in the mouse model of the disorder.
• PTOTSLPCase-Control2022Retrospective Case-Control Study of Communication and Motor Abilities in 143 Children With Suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Effect of Concomitant Diagnosis.Perspectives of the ASHA special interest groupsChildren with suspected childhood apraxia of speech and another major diagnosis showed more severe speech and motor delays than those without. They sat, crawled, and walked later, had smaller sound inventories, and often had feeding difficulties, suggesting a need for broader assessment.
• Other2022WDFY3 mutation alters laminar position and morphology of cortical neurons.Molecular autismThis study examines brain cell migration in mice with an autism-related gene mutation. It provides no clinical data on human patients or therapeutic interventions, so there are no findings applicable to physical, occupational, or speech therapy practice.
• PTOTSLPCohort2022Changes in social participation between 1 and 2 years following moderate-severe traumatic brain injury.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesMost people with moderate-to-severe brain injury showed stable social participation between 1 and 2 years post-injury. Decline was linked to worsening functional status, while improvement was associated with having private insurance and lower baseline social participation.
• PTPilot2022Effect of Test Interface on Respiratory Muscle Activity and Pulmonary Function During Respiratory Testing in Healthy Adults: A Pilot Study.Cardiopulmonary physical therapy journalIn 12 healthy adults, peak cough flow was higher with a facemask than a mouthpiece. Other lung measures varied too widely between interfaces to swap them during repeat testing.
• PTOther2022'Avoidance Preening', Displacement Behavior and Co-Dependency in Professional Team Sport: When Wants Become More Important Than Needs.International journal of sports physical therapyThis commentary offers no clinical data. It proposes a behavioural analogy for excessive physical therapy in professional sports, but reports no patients and no outcomes, so there is nothing here to change your practice on.
• PTOther2022Acute Effects of Percussive Therapy on the Posterior Shoulder Muscles Differ Based on the Athlete's Soreness Response.International journal of sports physical therapyHealthy adults who felt more sore after five minutes of percussive therapy on the shoulder had slightly reduced internal rotation range and strength. Those who did not report increased soreness saw small improvements. The authors note these changes were too small to exceed measurement error.
• PTOther2022Fourth World Congress of Sports Physical Therapy Scientific Abstracts.International journal of sports physical therapyThis document is a collection of conference abstracts, not a single study. It contains brief summaries of many different research projects without full methods or results. There is no specific finding to act on.
• PTRCT2022Use of a Non-Pharmacological Pain Relief Kit to Reduce Opioid Use Following Orthopedic Surgery: A Prospective Randomized Study.International journal of sports physical therapyAdding a home pain kit with ice, heat, tape, and bands to standard physical therapy did not reduce opioid use or pain compared to physical therapy alone. Patients in both groups improved similarly over four weeks. The study was underpowered due to low overall opioid consumption.
• SLPOther2022Diagnostic validity of Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, second edition (K-ADOS-2) in the Korean population.Molecular autismThe Korean ADOS-2 correctly identified autism across toddler to adult modules and usually avoided false autism labels among non-autistic people. Use it alongside caregiver and clinical information.
• SLPCase-Control2022Attentional influences on neural processing of biological motion in typically developing children and those on the autism spectrum.Molecular autismChildren with autism identified human motion as accurately as peers, but their brains did not automatically prioritize it. They only showed typical neural responses when explicitly asked to judge if the motion looked human. This suggests attention, not perception, drives social differences.
• Other2022What Does It Take for Research to Be Rehabilitation Research?Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesThis paper sets out six recommendations for how rehabilitation research should be designed, such as involving patients and using a biopsychosocial lens. It offers guidance for researchers and funders, not evidence that changes clinical practice.
• Other2022Early life sleep disruption potentiates lasting sex-specific changes in behavior in genetically vulnerable Shank3 heterozygous autism model mice.Molecular autismIn mice with one mutated copy of the autism gene Shank3, sleep disruption during the first three weeks of life caused lasting behavioral changes in adulthood. Effects differed by sex: females showed less risk aversion, while males showed reduced social preference and activity levels.
• Cohort2022The longitudinal bidirectional relationship between autistic traits and brain morphology from childhood to adolescence: a population-based cohort study.Molecular autismAdolescents with higher autistic traits showed specific brain structure differences, including less gyrification and smaller surface area. However, brain scans at age 6-9 did not predict later autistic traits, nor did early traits predict later brain changes. The link is cross-sectional, not longitudinal.
• PTSystematic Review2022The Effect of Concussion History on Lower Extremity Injury Risk in College Athletes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of sports physical therapyCollege athletes with a concussion history face a 58% greater risk of lower extremity injury than those without. This risk is highest in the first 90 days after returning to play and does not appear significantly elevated at one year.
• SLPSystematic Review2022Representativeness of autistic samples in studies recruiting through social media.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchAutism studies recruiting through social media often had more women than men, later diagnoses, higher education, lower unemployment, and far fewer people with intellectual disability than expected. These samples may not represent all autistic people.
• SLPOther2022Musical Interval Perception With a Cochlear Implant Alone and With a Contralateral Normal Hearing Ear.Trends in hearingTuning Happy Birthday through a cochlear implant alone was much less accurate than through a normal-hearing ear in ten people with single-sided deafness. Adding the implant ear did not improve tuning accuracy.
• SLPOther2022Facing up to others' emotions: No evidence of autism-related deficits in metacognitive awareness of emotion recognition.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchAutistic adults recognized emotions less accurately than non-autistic adults but were just as good at judging whether their own answers were right. Their slower responses likely reflect caution rather than a deficit in understanding their own limitations.
• SLPOther2022Masked Speech Recognition by Normal-Hearing 6-13-Year-Olds in Conditions With and Without Interaural Difference Cues.Trends in hearingNormal-hearing children aged 6 to 13 struggle more than adults when filtering out competing speech, even though they handle steady noise well. Adult-like performance in complex listening situations does not emerge until around age 12. Use age-specific norms for diagnostic testing.
• OTCohort2022Healing the wounds of workplace bullying: Evaluating mental health and workplace participation among victims seeking treatment for common mental disorders.Work (Reading, Mass.)Bullying victims improved their mental health symptoms as much as non-victims after roughly 10 sessions of therapy with a work focus. However, they were significantly less likely to be fully working after treatment, suggesting they need more support with the actual return to work.
• SLPCohort2022Hearing Aid Adoption is Associated with the Type of Significant Other in Attendance at Hearing Care Appointments.Trends in hearingPatients who came to a first hearing care appointment with a relative or partner were more likely to adopt hearing aids than those who came alone. Friends and carers did not show this pattern.
• OTSurvey2022Increased perceived stress is negatively associated with activities of daily living and subjective quality of life in younger, middle, and older autistic adults.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchAutistic adults who felt more stress about everyday life were less independent in daily living and reported lower quality of life across physical, psychological, social, environmental, and autism-related domains.
• PTSurvey2022Parents' report on the health care management of spina bifida in early childhood.Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicineParents reported young children with spina bifida had 7.4 spina bifida-related visits yearly. Among children seeing specialists, they had 11.3 specialist visits. Children with shunts had more of both visit types, but not more emergency visits.
• Other2022The Significance of Touch in Pediatric Physiotherapy.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesThis paper argues that touch in pediatric physiotherapy is an active, social process rather than passive handling. It offers a theoretical framework for understanding clinical interactions but reports no patient outcomes or evidence of efficacy.
• PTOTSLPSurvey2022Key demographics and psychological skills associated with adjustment to progressive Multiple Sclerosis early in the diagnosis.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesPeople with secondary progressive MS reported worse adjustment than those with primary progressive MS. Self-efficacy, avoidance coping, and psychological vulnerability were the strongest factors linked to how well patients adapted. These findings suggest targeting these specific areas in early rehabilitation support.
• PTOTCohort2022Association of ethnicity and adaptive functioning with health-related quality of life in pediatric myelomeningocele.Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicineHispanic children with spina bifida reported higher quality of life than White peers when adaptive skills were high. This link was absent at lower skill levels. Clinicians should ask families about their specific goals for independence rather than assuming motor skills drive well-being.
• PTOTOther2022Characterizing the Gait of People With Different Types of Amputation and Prosthetic Components Through Multimodal Measurements: A Methodological Perspective.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesPeople with transfemoral amputation show specific gait alterations, including reduced energy recovery and increased pelvic obliquity, compared to transtibial amputees and controls. More advanced microprocessor knees reduce these compensatory movements. Multimodal measurement is needed to fully understand prosthetic gait.
• PTCohort2022Association between changes in pain or function scores and changes in scapular rotations in patients with subacromial shoulder pain: a prospective cohort study.Archives of physiotherapyOver 8 weeks, changes in shoulder pain and function were not linked to changes in scapular rotation. Participants improved slightly on average, but the study did not test treatment and could not show why they changed.
• SLPOther2022Enhancing the Classification of Aphasia: A Statistical Analysis Using Connected Speech.AphasiologyAnalyzing connected speech from 168 people with aphasia, two simple measures, total words in personal narratives and closed-class words in storytelling, accurately sorted participants into seven distinct groups. These groups often cut across traditional WAB-R diagnoses, suggesting that fluency ratings alone can misclassify severity.
• SLPOther2022Spatio-temporal Integration of Speech Reflections in Hearing-Impaired Listeners.Trends in hearingHearing-impaired listeners struggle to ignore the direct sound when reflections arrive from different directions. They rely on loudness rather than spatial cues to focus on reflections, and many fail to process complex spatial-temporal sound patterns.
• PTNarrative Review2022Expanding on the use of The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: Examples and resources.The South African journal of physiotherapyThis paper is a resource guide urging physiotherapists to use the ICF framework for coding and data collection. It describes existing tools like WHODAS 2.0 and ICF Core Sets but reports no patient outcomes or intervention results.
• SLPCohort2022Factors predicting long-term recovery from post-stroke aphasia.AphasiologySmaller brain lesions predicted better long-term language recovery. Greater satisfaction with life participation was also associated with gains, but the link to speech therapy amount was weak and unstable. Do not assume therapy volume drives recovery based on this small, retrospective study.
• OTOther2022Further psychometric evaluation of the Structured Multidisciplinary Work Evaluation Tool (SMET) questionnaire: Practical implications in healthcare settings.Work (Reading, Mass.)In Swedish healthcare workplaces, the SMET questionnaire captured work-environment problems well overall, but grouping answers into red-yellow-green reduced precision for environmental questions and for matching questions to respondents. Some items need caution.
• OTOther2022Design of an Intervention and Education System for Children with Emotional Disorders Based on Semantic Analysis.Occupational therapy internationalThis is a system design report, not a clinical trial. It gives no clear sample, intervention outcomes, or methods, so there is nothing here to change practice.
• SLPOther2022Visual Speech Improves Older and Younger Adults' Response Time and Accuracy for Speech Comprehension in Noise.Trends in hearingSeeing a talker's moving face made speech in noise more accurate and faster to answer than seeing a still face. The benefit held for younger and older adults and was not reduced by a silent talking distractor.