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 495 OF 704 · NEWEST FIRST

• PTOTSLPSurvey2023Agreement between children with long-term health conditions and their primary caregivers on reports of perceived participation.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesChildren with long-term health conditions reported attending fewer activities than their caregivers thought, yet rated their involvement higher in some tasks. Caregivers and children agreed on which activities mattered most, but disagreed on how much the child actually participated.
• SLPOther2023Modified T2 Statistics for Improved Detection of Aided Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials in Hearing-Impaired Infants.Trends in hearingModified statistical tests detected cortical auditory evoked potentials in hearing-impaired infants more accurately than the standard Hotelling's T2 test, especially with small numbers of epochs. These methods outperformed visual inspection by experienced audiologists.
• PTOTPilot2023Association between upper limb movements during drumming and cognition in older adults with cognitive impairment and dementia at a nursing home: a pilot study.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesIn 16 older adults with dementia, the height their arm reached while drumming correlated with both handgrip strength and MMSE scores. This suggests arm elevation during drumming may help assess motor function and cognitive status when standard tests are difficult.
• PTQualitative2023"It's a lot more complicated than it seems": physiotherapists' experiences of using compensation strategies in people with Parkinson's.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesPhysiotherapists described tailoring Parkinson's gait strategies to each person's cognition, preferences, mood and home support. They also said work settings and little formal training made consistent delivery difficult. This reports their experiences, not evidence that any strategy works.
• PTOTSLPPilot2023Influences of trunk stability on exercise performance of closed kinetic chain of upper and lower limbs.Journal of physical therapy sciencePerforming rhythmic stabilization on the trunk immediately before testing improved upper and lower limb performance in healthy male students. Push-up and step-up times shortened significantly. This suggests trunk stability influences limb motor tasks, but the study did not test long-term training effects.
• SLPCase-Control2023A profile of prosodic speech differences in individuals with autism spectrum disorder and first-degree relatives.Journal of communication disordersAutistic adults and their parents showed subtle expressive prosody differences, particularly with stress and imitation, despite good receptive understanding. These traits track with symptom severity and social personality features, suggesting prosody is a genetically linked marker rather than just a downstream effect.
• OTSystematic Review2023Profile of occupational therapy services in non-urban settings: A global scoping review.Australian occupational therapy journalMost non-urban occupational therapy services are delivered by urban-based therapists via outreach or telehealth, focusing on individual rehabilitation for specific diagnoses. Community-level interventions are rare, particularly in wealthy nations, despite the high burden of disease in these regions.
• SLPPilot2023Weighing up the pros and cons of dysphagia triage in South Africa.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir KommunikasieafwykingsA two-minute doctor triage checklist flagged 27 of 67 emergency patients as dysphagia risk, but it did not agree reliably with screening and flagged many patients without dysphagia.
• PTOTSLPQualitative2023Factors that influence the adoption of rehabilitation technologies: a multi-disciplinary qualitative exploration.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationClinicians and stakeholders identified six factors influencing rehabilitation technology adoption: total costs beyond purchase, biopsychosocial benefits, earned trust, ease of use, access, and co-design. They stressed that technology must fit clinical workflows and address user needs to avoid abandonment.
• Other2023Policy brief: adaptive cycling equipment for individuals with neurodevelopmental disabilities as durable medical equipment.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesNo original findings to report.
• PTOTCohort2023Relationship between weight bearing ratio in sitting and physical function assessment in healthy adults.Journal of physical therapy sciencePressing one foot on a scale while sitting correlated with stronger knee muscles, better lateral reach, and easier one-leg standing in 32 healthy adults. The correlations were moderate. This suggests a cheap, single-foot weight-bearing test might reflect lower limb function even in people with high function.
• SLPCase-Control2023Are autistic people disadvantaged by the criminal justice system? A case comparison.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic adults reported worse experiences with police than non-autistic peers, citing stress and noise. They were five times more likely to feel they needed an appropriate adult during questioning but did not receive one. Both groups struggled to access support.
• PTOTSLPCase Report2023The treatment and rationale for the correction of a cervical kyphosis spinal deformity in a cervical asymptomatic young female: a Chiropractic BioPhysics® case report with follow-up.Journal of physical therapy scienceA single asymptomatic patient received chiropractic traction and exercises for 59 weeks. Imaging showed a 40-degree correction of cervical kyphosis, but the curve partially relapsed after 3.5 years of minimal follow-up care. This describes one person's radiographic change, not proof that treatment prevents future symptoms.
• OTQualitative2022'What's she doing here?' Overcoming barriers to the implementation of Expert by Experience positions in academia.Australian occupational therapy journalAcademics supporting 'Expert by Experience' roles in health education faced stigma and funding hurdles. They used informal advocacy and creative budgeting to overcome resistance. Colleagues' attitudes often softened over time as they became familiar with the roles. Institutional barriers remained significant.
• Other2022Experience-dependent changes in hippocampal spatial activity and hippocampal circuit function are disrupted in a rat model of Fragile X Syndrome.Molecular autismIn a rat model of Fragile X syndrome, hippocampal neurons failed to adapt their firing patterns and spatial mapping as the environment became familiar. This suggests a biological basis for difficulty with habituation to novelty seen in patients.
• SLPOther2023Differences in Glottal Closure and Visibility of the Anterior Commissure during Rigid-90°, Rigid-70°, and Flexible Laryngostroboscopy.Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica : official organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP)Flexible endoscopy showed better vocal fold closure and anterior commissure visibility than rigid scopes in healthy adults. Rigid 70-degree scopes offered slightly better anterior visibility than 90-degree scopes but similar closure findings. Technique choice directly affects diagnostic interpretation.
• PTOTSurvey2023Perceived impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among people with spinal cord injury: A descriptive study.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationMost people with spinal cord injury reported the pandemic negatively affected their community participation. Over half of those needing personal care attendants relied more on family, and a quarter delayed medical treatments due to fear of infection, though difficulties obtaining basic supplies were less common.
• PTPilot2023Changes in sleep profile on exposure to sodium chloride and artificially carbonated springs: a pilot study.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn eight healthy young men, baths before bed did not clearly shorten time to fall asleep or improve total sleep, but they increased a brain-wave marker of deep sleep in the first sleep cycle versus no bath.
• PTOTSLPOther2023The Oxford Cognitive Screen for use with Australian people after stroke (OCS-AU): The adaptation process and determining cut scores for cognitive impairment using a cross-sectional normative study.Australian occupational therapy journalThe Oxford Cognitive Screen was adapted for Australian English. Normative data showed that Australian scores matched the original UK cut scores for almost all items, meaning clinicians can use the existing thresholds to identify specific cognitive deficits after stroke.
• SLPPilot2023Predicting Hearing aid Benefit Using Speech-Evoked Envelope Following Responses in Children With Hearing Loss.Trends in hearingHearing aids improved audibility and speech discrimination in 18 children with hearing loss. More detected speech-evoked brain responses were linked to better aided discrimination, but this small pilot does not prove the test replaces behavioral assessment.
• OTQualitative2023The experience and role of mentorship for paediatric occupational therapists.Australian occupational therapy journalNovice paediatric OTs sought mentors to navigate complex caseloads and reduce isolation. They valued safe, non-judgemental relationships, often external to their workplace. Mentors helped translate theory to practice and scaffold clinical reasoning, building mentee resilience and confidence.
• PTOTSLPCohort2023FMR1 CGG Repeats and Stress Influence Self-Reported Cognitive Functioning in Mothers.American journal on intellectual and developmental disabilitiesMothers of children with disabilities and those facing recent life events reported more executive function and memory difficulties. These stress effects were independent of FMR1 CGG repeat length. Clinicians should address maternal cognitive load regardless of genetic status.
• SLPRCT2023Changing the Paradigm for School Hearing Screening Globally: Evaluation of Screening Protocols From Two Randomized Trials in Rural Alaska.Ear and hearingAdding tympanometry to school hearing screening identified more children with hearing loss or middle ear disease. For ages 3 to 6, OAE plus tympanometry performed best; for ages 7 and up, high-frequency pure-tone plus tympanometry was top, but not clearly better.
• PTOther2023Biomechanical gait analysis for a hip disarticulation prosthesis: power source for the swing phase of a hip disarticulation prosthetic limb.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn hip prosthesis walking, the measured lower back power was very small. The unaffected hip showed extension moment and power during stance and swing, and the authors concluded that unaffected hip extension drove prosthetic swing.
• Cohort2023Potential Points of Intervention to Minimize the Impact of Parents' Adverse Childhood Experiences on Child Mental Health.Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBPParent adverse childhood experiences were linked to child mental health symptoms through parent mental health symptoms and less positive parenting. In the final model, parent ACEs did not remain directly linked to child symptoms.
• PTOTQualitative2023The experience of meaningful rehabilitation as perceived by people with chronic pain: A phenomenological study.Work (Reading, Mass.)People with chronic pain found rehabilitation meaningful when therapists acted as credible guiding partners who shared power. They valued genuine human connection over strict professional boundaries, and wanted goals defined by their own identity rather than just pain reduction.
• Other2023Food Insecurity and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents: Does Federal Nutrition Assistance Act as a Buffer?Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBPAdolescents reporting food insecurity had significantly higher depressive symptoms. School lunch participation did not buffer this link. SNAP participation showed a non-significant trend toward weakening the association, but this finding requires further study.
• SLPCohort2023Theory of Mind and Parental Mental-State Talk in Children with CIs.Journal of deaf studies and deaf educationParents of children with cochlear implants used more literal talk and similar amounts of mental-state talk compared to parents of hearing children. More emotional talk predicted better theory of mind in the implant group, while more literal talk predicted worse.
• OTQualitative2023Valuing home modifications: The street-level policy work of occupational therapists in Australian home modification practice.Australian occupational therapy journalTherapists described their core work as negotiating between what clients want and what funders pay for. They relied on cost-saving metrics like reduced paid care to justify modifications, but noted these often fail to capture the true value of maintaining function or preventing decline.
• PTOTSLPCohort2023Adherence to Guidelines for Acute Rehabilitation in the Norwegian Trauma Plan.Journal of rehabilitation medicineAdherence to Norwegian trauma rehabilitation guidelines was poor. Only 18% of ICU patients stayed 3+ days received a specialist assessment within 72 hours. Just 22% of all patients transferred directly to specialized rehabilitation, leaving many with severe injuries without timely acute care.
• SLPOther2023Are prosodic effects on sentence comprehension dependent on age?CoDASBrazilian Portuguese adults and children used prosodic cues differently to understand ambiguous sentences. Children relied on single strong cues, while adults integrated multiple boundaries. Neither group's performance matched existing theoretical predictions, suggesting clinical interpretation of prosodic processing must account for language-specific and developmental differences.
• PTCohort2023Factors associated with falls during voluntary self-isolation among community-dwelling older people: a longitudinal study.Journal of physical therapy scienceDuring self-isolation, older people who reported subjective cognitive decline or unexplained fatigue had significantly higher odds of falling. These specific frailty symptoms predicted falls independently of age, gender, or total frailty score.
• OTCohort2023Challenging behaviour and its risk factors in children and young people in a special school setting: A four wave longitudinal study.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDAcross four time points, challenging behaviour did not show a clear trend: 58.2% met criteria at the first point, and 64% at the last. Lower adaptive skills and autism were linked to more behaviour, while profound intellectual disability was linked to less overall behaviour.
• PTOTOther2023Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the Work Rehabilitation Questionnaire (WORQ) into Danish.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesThe Danish Work Rehabilitation Questionnaire (WORQ) is a reliable tool for assessing work ability. It was easy for patients to understand and use. Therapists can use it to map social, mental, and physical functioning in vocational rehabilitation.
• SLPOther2023Hearing Thresholds for Unscreened U.S. Adults: Data From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2011-2012, 2015-2016, and 2017-2020.Trends in hearingCurrent hearing norms for U.S. adults are slightly better than the ISO 1999 standard used in noise-induced hearing loss claims. Men and older adults have worse hearing, and Black adults have better hearing than White adults. Use these updated values for accurate assessment.
• PTOther2023Assisting walking balance using a bio-inspired exoskeleton controller.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationA bio-inspired ankle exoskeleton controller that used body sway feedback reduced muscle effort and limited balance loss after treadmill pushes and pulls. It was tested only in 12 healthy walkers, not patients.
• OTQualitative2022Occupational therapists' application of the Do-Live-Well framework: A Canadian health promotion approach.Canadian journal of occupational therapy. Revue canadienne d'ergotherapieOccupational therapists found the Do-Live-Well framework useful for client-centred care but struggled to apply it due to time, space, and lack of step-by-step guidance. Many assumed they needed to use the entire framework, which felt overwhelming, rather than selecting specific concepts.
• OTOther2022The development and psychometric properties of a measure to assess the written submission of an admissions application.The British journal of occupational therapyA 25-item written-submission score for occupational therapy admissions was consistent as a total score and took about 12 minutes to rate. Individual subscales were less consistent, and total scores did not show a clear link to pre-admission grade point average.
• OTSystematic Review2022A scoping review of online international student collaboration in occupational therapy education.The British journal of occupational therapyTen low-quality studies of online international collaboration in occupational therapy education reported positive student outcomes, but the evidence was too uneven to show the approach reliably improves cultural competence or practice understanding.
• OTQualitative2022Patients views on which return-to-work outcomes should be prioritised: A nominal group technique focus group.The British journal of occupational therapySix trauma patients prioritised 'sense of purpose' and 'understanding the impact of injury' above simple return-to-work status. They valued process outcomes like assessing readiness and educating employers, suggesting vocational rehabilitation should measure these alongside traditional employment metrics.
• PTOther2023An electrical stimulation intervention protocol to prevent disuse atrophy and muscle strength decline: an experimental study in rat.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationHigh-frequency electrical stimulation before tail suspension followed by low-frequency stimulation during tail suspension better preserved soleus mass, gastrocnemius force and fatigue in rats than other combinations. It was tested only in rats.
• PTOther2023Validating scapular motion measurements using an optical motion analyzer and gravity magnetic resonance imaging.Journal of physical therapy scienceScapular motion measured by optical markers agreed with gravity MRI only in three specific positions. In most movements, including abduction changes, the two methods did not match. Clinicians should interpret marker-based scapular data with caution.
• PTOTSLPCohort2023Fine motor skill and expressive language in minimally verbal and verbal school-aged autistic children.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchIn autistic children aged 4 to 7, better fine motor skills linked to clearer speech only in minimally verbal children. For all children, fine motor skills and adaptive behavior predicted longer utterances. Conversational turns depended on adaptive behavior alone, not motor skill.
• OTOther2023Confirmatory factor analysis of the BRIEF2 in a sample of youth with Down syndrome.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDRParent reports of daily executive skills in children with Down syndrome grouped into linked behaviour, emotion and cognitive regulation areas. The behaviour and emotion areas were very closely related, so they may be hard to tell apart in practice.
• SLPOther2023Time-specific Components of Pupil Responses Reveal Alternations in Effort Allocation Caused by Memory Task Demands During Speech Identification in Noise.Trends in hearingAdding a memory task to speech-in-noise testing reduced word identification scores but increased pupil baseline dilation. This suggests listeners reallocate mental effort from listening to memorizing, rather than simply working harder overall. Clinical tests should distinguish acoustic difficulty from cognitive load.
• Other2023Emergence of functionally aberrant and subsequent reduction of neuromuscular connectivity and improved motor performance after cervical spinal cord injury in Rhesus.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesUpper limb muscle activity became excessive and poorly coordinated early after cervical spinal cord injury in four Rhesus monkeys, then partly normalized over 24 weeks as stepping and grape retrieval improved.
• PTOTOther2023Long-term forecasting of a motor outcome following rehabilitation in chronic stroke via a hierarchical bayesian dynamic model.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationA computer model predicted upper-limb recovery in chronic stroke patients by combining their initial scores with repeated progress checks. Accuracy improved significantly as more data arrived. The model worked best after the second week of therapy, offering reliable forecasts for six months ahead.
• PTOTCohort2023Association of clinical symptoms and metabolic syndrome-related factors in patients undergoing high tibial osteotomy.Journal of physical therapy sciencePatients with obesity, diabetes, hypertension or dyslipidemia had poorer knee scores and worse walking after high tibial osteotomy. These metabolic factors, not just alignment or strength, predict a tougher recovery. Screen for them before surgery.
• SLPNarrative Review2023Combining observational and experimental approaches to the development of language and communication in rural samples: Opportunities and challenges.Journal of child languageNo clinical finding is reported. This paper reviews child language research methods in rural communities and discusses study challenges, not patient outcomes or tested interventions.
• PTSLPSurvey2023Effects of Occupation-Specific Vocal Stress on the Mental Health of Day Care Teachers.Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica : official organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP)Day care teachers who felt speaking was exhausting, had headaches or neck pain, or were exhausted after work reported greater mental health impairment and burnout risk. Speaking louder alone was not linked to mental health or burnout.