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 525 OF 704 · NEWEST FIRST

• SLPOther2024The Social Shapes Test as a Self-Administered, Online Measure of Social Intelligence: Two Studies with Typically Developing Adults and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAdults with autism scored lower on an online animated-shape test than adults without autism, and the test worked similarly across groups. The test is suited for research, not diagnosis.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2024Current learning strategies in fire evacuation for seniors and people with disabilities in private seniors' residences and long-term care homes: a scoping review.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesFire drills often cause injury and stress for seniors, yet verbal instructions alone are ineffective. Safe evacuation requires combining drills with multi-sensory staff training, clear environmental signage, and equipment adapted for mobility and cognitive impairments.
• PTOTSLPPilot2024Community-based exercise program, self-reported health-related symptoms, and quality of life in persons with traumatic brain injury 45 + years old.NeuroRehabilitationIn 20 adults with moderate-to-severe brain injury, a 12-week community-based aerobic program improved self-reported cognitive health and sleep quality compared to stretching. Global quality of life, emotional health, and social health showed no significant difference between groups.
• SLPQualitative2024The Interactional Structure of Accounts During Small Group Discussions Among Autistic Children Receiving Special Education Support in Finland.Journal of autism and developmental disordersIn small-group diary discussions, autistic children explained their drawings without words like because. The analysis found open questions and children's control of the topic alongside their accounts and participation.
• OTSLPQualitative2024Self-reported Everyday Sources of Happiness and Unhappiness in Autistic Adults.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAutistic adults most often cited social partners and activities as sources of happiness. They cited social partners and interactions, job difficulties, and current events as sources of unhappiness. Themes were similar for those with and without a depression history.
• PTOTSLPOther2024The reliability, validity and clinical utility of the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation - ten-item version (CORE-10) in post-acute patients with stroke.Clinical rehabilitationThe CORE-10 is a valid, free, and quick mood screen for post-acute stroke inpatients. A change of 9 points indicates 90% confidence in real clinical improvement or deterioration, while a score of 12 or higher marks clinically significant distress.
• Systematic Review2024Characterizing the supraspinal sensorimotor control of walking using MRI-compatible system: a systematic review.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationMRI-compatible devices can simulate walking while a patient lies still, showing brain activity in motor and sensory areas. Most studies used young, healthy volunteers with small samples, so the findings do not yet explain gait disorders or guide clinical treatment.
• Pilot2024Improving post-concussion discharge education for families seeking emergency department care: intervention development.Brain injuryParents found a post-discharge text messaging program acceptable. While it did not change knowledge or general self-efficacy, parents who received the texts reported significantly more emotionally supportive communication with their recovering child than those who did not.
• PTOTSLPSurvey2024The Well-being and Support Needs of Australian Caregivers of Neurodiverse Children.Journal of autism and developmental disordersCaregivers of neurodiverse children reported clinically significant stress and lower well-being than national averages. They identified major unmet needs for respite, support groups, and funding, with many facing financial hardship and social isolation due to stigma and lack of accessible services.
• Cohort2024Estimating the Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder in New South Wales, Australia: A Data Linkage Study of Three Routinely Collected Datasets.Journal of autism and developmental disordersMost recorded autism cases in New South Wales children came from disability services records, not hospital or mental health contacts. Boys were much more likely to be recorded, and age six rates rose by birth year.
• SLPCase-Control2024Dissociation Between Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Statistical Learning in Children with Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disordersChildren with autism learned speech and letter patterns more slowly and remembered them less well than typical peers, but showed no such difficulty with nonlinguistic tones or images. This linguistic-specific gap was larger in older children and correlated with poorer sentence repetition skills.
• SLPCohort2023Maternal and child predictors associated with loss to follow-up in the newborn hearing screening program: a cohort study in maternity hospitals in northeastern Brazil.CoDASMothers with five or fewer prenatal visits were 2.3 times more likely to be lost to follow-up after newborn hearing screening. Infants with a family history of hearing loss were 2.1 times more likely to be lost to follow-up.
• SLPOther2023Word Learning in Deaf Adults Who Use Cochlear Implants: The Role of Talker Variability and Attention to the Mouth.Ear and hearingAdults with cochlear implants focused almost exclusively on the talker's mouth when learning new words, unlike normal-hearing adults who split attention between eyes and mouth. However, hearing the words from multiple talkers did not improve learning accuracy compared to a single talker.
• PTOther2023Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on a Clinical Trial: A Quantitative Report on Study Engagement and Strategies.Pediatric physical therapy : the official publication of the Section on Pediatrics of the American Physical Therapy AssociationDuring peak pandemic, enrollment fell, retention worsened, and 36 in-person outcome measures were missed. Telehealth intervention visits were largely completed, but telehealth did not replace assessments requiring hands-on testing.
• PTCohort2023Females with hip-related pain demonstrate reduced kinetics at the hip and ankle during terminal stance of gait.Gait & postureFemales with hip-related pain showed reduced hip and ankle forces during late stance, suggesting whole-limb offloading rather than compensation. Males showed no such differences. Peak hip moments did not differ between groups, contradicting the hypothesis that pain drives specific joint moment changes.
• PTOTCohort2023Proactive outcome monitoring and standardisation of physiotherapy stroke rehabilitation - A retrospective functional outcomes analysis of Accelerated Stroke Ambulation Programme (ASAP).Hong Kong physiotherapy journal : official publication of the Hong Kong Physiotherapy Association Limited = Wu li chih liaoStroke patients in a standardised rehab programme gained more mobility points than those in traditional care, but balance and daily living scores showed no clear difference. The programme relies on data-driven decision support rather than therapist preference alone.
• PTOTQualitative2023"Restoring That Faith in My Shoulder": A Qualitative Investigation of How and Why Exercise Therapy Influenced the Clinical Outcomes of Individuals With Rotator Cuff-Related Shoulder Pain.Physical therapyPatients described exercise helping their shoulder pain only when they trusted their clinician, received a tailored plan, and saw progress quickly. They attributed benefits to getting stronger and regaining confidence in the shoulder. These are patient perspectives, not proof that exercise works.
• SLPPilot2023Feasibility of the HEAR-aware App for Hearing Loss Self-Management: A Nonrandomized Intervention Study to Examine Intervention Acceptability and the Stages-of-Change Concept.Ear and hearingAdults declining hearing aids found this app generally usable but struggled to log daily listening situations. Most said the surveys gave them insight into their hearing, though many found the educational snippets unhelpful for the specific situations they reported.
• PTOther2023Expert Consensus for the Use of Outpatient Rehabilitation Visits After Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Delphi Study.The Journal of orthopaedic and sports physical therapyUS experts reached consensus on outpatient knee replacement rehab visit schedules, including starting within one week and not recommending telerehabilitation for slow recovery. These are expert recommendations, not tested interventions.
• PTOther2023Physical Activity Behavior and Its Association With Global Cognitive Function Three Months After Stroke: The Nor-COAST Study†.Physical therapyStroke survivors with higher cognitive test scores spent more time walking at moderate intensity and met weekly activity guidelines more often. The link was partly explained by lower-limb physical capacity. This does not show cognition caused activity.
• SLPCohort2023Language sample analysis of conversation samples from school-age children who stutter: The role of syntactic factors in stuttering.Journal of communication disordersSchool-age children who stutter used more complex sentence structures in shorter conversation samples than fluent peers. Higher syntactic complexity was associated with more stuttering. This suggests clinicians should assess language ability with caution, as stuttering itself may limit the sample size and complexity observed.
• SLPCohort2023Preservation of Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions in OTOF -Related Hearing Impairment.Ear and hearingMany children and adults with OTOF hearing loss still showed DPOAE responses for years, sometimes into adulthood. Apparent loss in some cases coincided with middle ear effusion, so check middle ear status before assuming outer hair cells are gone.
• SLPSurvey2024Language Preferences in the Dutch Autism Community: A Social Psychological Approach.Journal of autism and developmental disordersDutch autistic adults overall preferred person-first language, but identity-first language was not rejected and preferences varied widely. Ask each client which wording they prefer rather than assuming one term fits all.
• OTSLPSurvey2024Urban and rural differences in needs, service use and satisfaction among caregivers of autistic children in Morocco.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceRural caregivers reported far less non-medication intervention and school enrolment for their children than urban caregivers, despite similar verbal ability and satisfaction. Priorities were similar, but challenges differed.
• PTOther2024Towards co-design of rehabilitation technologies: a collaborative approach to prioritize usability issues.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesFive people with spinal cord injury reported 60 usability issues with a brain-computer rehabilitation system. Stakeholder ratings marked 50% as high priority, with themes including comfort, safety, and system interruptions.
• PTCohort2024Reliability, Measurement Error, Responsiveness, and Minimal Important Change of the Patient-Specific Functional Scale 2.0 for Patients With Nonspecific Neck Pain.Physical therapyFor patients with nonspecific neck pain, the PSFS 2.0 is a reliable and responsive measure. A change of 2.67 points on the 0-10 scale indicates important improvement, distinguishing real progress from measurement error.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2024Evidence-based position paper on Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM) professional practice on telerehabilitation. The European PRM position (UEMS PRM Section).European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicineTelerehabilitation outcomes often match in-person care for stroke, COPD, and knee pain, but evidence is low-certainty for shoulder pain and low vision. Remote exams miss manual findings, so use it when in-person is unavailable, not as a full replacement.
• SLPOther2024Ensuring treatment fidelity in intervention studies: Developing a checklist and scoring system within a behaviour change paradigm.International journal of language & communication disordersTrainees delivering a modified Derbyshire Language Scheme often missed or changed key steps. Clear plans and checking delivery are needed. A checklist was developed to score correct delivery and added steps that drift from the manual.
• PTOTOther2024The influence of prosthetic suspension on gait and cortical modulations is persons with a transfemoral amputation: socket-suspended versus bone-anchored prosthesis.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationBone-anchored and socket-suspended prostheses produced identical gait patterns in highly active users. However, EEG data suggest socket users rely more on intact-limb monitoring and control to maintain stability. This implies the fixed bone anchor may reduce cognitive load during walking, even if gait looks the same.
• PTOTSLPOther2024Revision of the brief international classification of functioning, disability and health core set for multiple sclerosis: a study of the comprehensive icf core set for multiple sclerosis with participants referred for work ability assessment.Journal of rehabilitation medicineIn people with MS referred for work ability assessment, memory and temperament impairments were common but missed by the current Brief ICF Core Set. The study suggests replacing higher-level cognitive and emotional categories with memory and temperament to better capture disability.
• OTOther2024Evaluating the Experiences of Occupational Therapists and Children Using the SensoGrip Pressure-Sensitive Pen in a Handwriting Intervention: Multimethods Study.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologiesOccupational therapists and children accepted the SensoGrip pressure-sensitive pen, with 80% of children giving it the highest satisfaction rating. Therapists found it useful for visualizing handwriting pressure and guiding therapy, though it is a prototype with some technical faults.
• PTRCT2023Comparison of Joint Mobilization and Movement Pattern Training for Patients With Hip-Related Groin Pain: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial.Physical therapyThis pilot trial found no significant difference between hip joint mobilization and movement pattern training for groin pain. Both groups improved similarly, but the study was not powered to prove efficacy. It confirms a larger trial is feasible but offers no guidance on which treatment works better.
• SLPOther2023Hearing Loss Prevalence, Years Lived With Disability, and Hearing Aid Use in the United States From 1990 to 2019: Findings From the Global Burden of Disease Study.Ear and hearingIn 2019, an estimated 22.2% of US residents had hearing loss, mostly mild. Only 9.7% of people with mild to profound hearing loss used a hearing aid. Most cases were in people over 50.
• PTCohort2023Psychological, behavioural and biological factors associated with gastrointestinal symptoms in autistic adults and adults with autistic traits.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAdults with an autism diagnosis or high autistic traits reported more GI symptoms than others. GI symptoms were linked to anxiety or depression, stress and worse perceived health, and in high-trait adults also to lower physical activity.
• SLPCase Report2023Dynamic vocal analysis: vocal functionality evaluation.CoDASThis paper demonstrates how to use Dynamic Vocal Analysis (DVA) to assess voice functionality. It shows examples of spectrograms for healthy and disordered voices but does not test whether the method improves patient outcomes or works better than other assessments.
• PTOTSLPProtocol2023Content validation of the decannulation protocol for adult tracheostomized patients.CoDASExperts validated a decannulation protocol for adults, removing the blue-dye test and oral diet as prerequisites. They agreed that patients with dysphagia can still be decannulated if they can protect their airways, shifting focus to secretion management and clinical assessment.
• SLPRCT2023Efficacy in the use of gamification strategy in phonological therapy.CoDASIn children with phonological disorder, adding a computer game to phonological therapy did not improve target sound accuracy or reduce sessions compared with traditional therapy. Both groups improved, but the traditional group started with higher consonant scores.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2023Cognitive-motor dual-task interference in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and prodromal neurodegeneration: A scoping review.Gait & postureWalking while doing a mental task causes bigger drops in gait and thinking speed for people with Alzheimer's or Parkinson's than for healthy adults. This interference worsens as disease progresses, but no single test predicts it reliably yet.
• Systematic Review2023Representation of autism in fictional media: A systematic review of media content and its impact on viewer knowledge and understanding of autism.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceFictional media portrayals of autism remain stereotypical, focusing on savants and repetitive behaviours while missing social nuances. Viewing these portrayals did not significantly improve autism knowledge. Attitude changes were inconsistent and limited, with no clear evidence that fictional exposure alone reduces stigma or increases understanding.
• PTOther2023Comparison of Kaltenborn mobilization technique and muscle energy technique on range of motion, pain and function in subjects with chronic shoulder adhesive capsulitis.Hong Kong physiotherapy journal : official publication of the Hong Kong Physiotherapy Association Limited = Wu li chih liaoBoth groups improved shoulder movement, pain and function after 10 sessions. With heat, supervised exercises and home exercises, muscle energy technique gave better pain and function scores than Kaltenborn mobilization; movement scores were similar.
• SLPOther2023Characterization of the phonological system in low-income Brazilian preschoolers.CoDASLow-income preschoolers in Northeast Brazil showed typical phonological development, with consonant accuracy above diagnostic cutoffs. However, five children displayed liquid simplification, which is atypical for this age. Regional dialect variations in consonant production were common and should not be mistaken for speech sound disorders.
• SLPOther2023Usability evaluation of the Agente Escuta application: translational research.CoDASCommunity health workers rated the Agente Escuta app as having good usability, though they scored it lower than expert judges. The app effectively supported hearing monitoring tasks, but technical barriers and work overload limited its routine use.
• PTRCT2023Immediate effect of craniocervical flexion exercise and Mulligan mobilisation in patients with mechanical neck pain - A randomised clinical trial.Hong Kong physiotherapy journal : official publication of the Hong Kong Physiotherapy Association Limited = Wu li chih liaoBoth craniocervical flexion exercises and Mulligan mobilisation reduced pain and improved neck movement immediately after one session. Neither technique was superior to the other. Clinicians can choose either approach for acute mechanical neck pain, but this trial does not show if benefits last.
• PTRCT2023Effect of neural mobilisation in Bell's palsy: A randomised controlled trial.Hong Kong physiotherapy journal : official publication of the Hong Kong Physiotherapy Association Limited = Wu li chih liaoAdding facial nerve mobilisation to standard care improved facial symmetry scores by 9.2 points on a 100-point scale compared to placebo after 3 weeks. This suggests the technique adds benefit, though long-term effects remain unknown.
• PTOTCohort2023Using the Standing and Walking Assessment Tool at Discharge Predicts Community Outdoor Walking Capacity in Persons With Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury.Physical therapyDischarge SWAT stage 3B or higher predicted outdoor walking one year later. Stage 4 predicted independent walking without aids. Lower stages predicted non-walking. Use these cutoffs to guide equipment prescription and discharge planning for spinal cord injury patients.
• SLPCohort2023Preliminary Guidelines for Replacing Word-Recognition in Quiet With Speech in Noise Assessment in the Routine Audiologic Test Battery.Ear and hearingSpeech-in-noise scores and high-frequency hearing thresholds accurately predict word-recognition in quiet. For patients with high-frequency thresholds under 40 dB and speech-in-noise loss under 7 dB, word-recognition in quiet is almost always excellent, so it may not need to be tested.
• SLPCohort2023Associations between autism traits and family functioning over time in autistic and non-autistic children.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceIn clinically referred children, lower autism traits at the start were associated with better family functioning about 13 months later. When split by diagnosis, this was found only in non-autistic children with high traits, not autistic children. It does not prove cause.
• SLPQualitative2024South African adolescents' lived experiences of acquired hearing loss following multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesSix adolescents with hearing loss from MDR-TB treatment described a triple burden: poverty, life-threatening TB, and permanent hearing damage. They faced stigma, unemployment, and isolation. Hearing aids were provided but unused due to cost, embarrassment, and fear of theft.
• Protocol2024Combining HD-tDCS with music stimulation for patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness: Study protocol for an RCT trial.NeuroRehabilitationNo patients have been treated and no outcomes are reported. This protocol cannot change practice yet.
• OTCohort2024Dynamics of Perceived Social Isolation, Secondary Conditions, and Daily Activity Patterns Among Individuals With Stroke: A Network Analysis of Ecological Momentary Assessment Data.Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitationAdults after stroke who reported feeling worthless were more likely to report perceived social isolation later. Isolation also happened alongside being home and alone. In one model, isolation was followed by stress, then leaving home.