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 567 OF 704 · NEWEST FIRST

• SLPRCT2025Rehabilitation of post-stroke aphasia by a single protocol targeting phonological, lexical, and semantic deficits with speech output tasks: a randomized controlled trial.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine2 weeks of PHOLEXSEM improved repetition, naming, fluency and sentence comprehension in people with post-stroke aphasia. PACE improved only noun fluency and word span. The paper did not compare change between groups.
• SLPSurvey2025Exploring Factors of Diagnostic Timing Among Black Autistic Youth.Journal of autism and developmental disordersBlack families whose autism diagnosis came later noticed signs much later, waited longer after noticing signs, and were more likely to report a misdiagnosis. Reported racial barriers did not differ by diagnosis timing.
• PTOTQualitative2025Perceptions of digitally supported home exercise for people with Parkinson's disease: A qualitative study.Clinical rehabilitationPeople with Parkinson's described digitally supported home exercise as both hopeful and burdensome: it let them actively resist disease, but unclear limits, self-doubt, home privacy, tech errors and mixed advice made adherence hard.
• OTSystematic Review2025Applicability and Psychometric Properties of General Mental Health Assessment Tools in Autistic People: A Systematic Review.Journal of autism and developmental disordersBroad mental health screeners for autistic people have uneven evidence. Among commonly used tools, the Aberrant Behavior Checklist was best supported; ASEBA and SDQ were less consistent. Match the tool to age, ability, and informant.
• PTOTRCT2025What are the views of those participating in a trial investigating acute post-traumatic benign paroxysmal positional vertigo? A qualitative study.Brain injuryTherapists and patients viewed acute BPPV assessment in trauma as feasible. Patients valued the diagnosis for validating symptoms and reducing fear. Therapists noted role extension challenges. Patients found the advice arm acceptable despite therapist safety concerns. No efficacy was tested.
• OTSurvey2025Impact of a Genetic Diagnosis for a Child's Autism on Parental Perceptions.Journal of autism and developmental disordersParents who learned their child had a genetic diagnosis for autism reported less self-blame and, in interviews, saw behavior as less controlled. They also lowered expectations for future independence and financial self-support. Genetic counseling was part of result delivery.
• OTOther2025Health, Wellbeing and Empowerment E-workshops for Mothers of Children with Disabilities: A Non-randomised Comparison Study.Journal of autism and developmental disordersMothers of children with disabilities who took part in an online health and wellbeing package reported more health promoting activities than controls. The package combined Zoom workshops, a closed social media group, a website, and an e-workbook, so one part cannot be credited.
• PTCohort2025Machine Learning Algorithms for Prediction of Ambulation and Wheelchair Transfer Ability in Spina Bifida.Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitationA spina bifida prediction model correctly classified 83.22% of ambulation categories, but missed most household and therapeutic ambulators. Wheelchair transfer prediction also struggled to identify patients unable to transfer.
• PTOTSLPCohort2025Continuation of Pediatric Care after Transfer to Adult Care Among Autistic Youth Overlap of Pediatric and Adult Care.Journal of autism and developmental disordersMost autistic young adults keep using pediatric services after starting adult primary care. Over half had direct pediatric visits, including therapy. Clinicians should expect ongoing pediatric involvement rather than assuming a clean break at the first adult appointment.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2024Social work practice and outcomes in rehabilitation: a scoping review.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesSocial workers in rehabilitation primarily handle financial security, return-to-work coordination, and psychosocial assessments. Outcomes focus on participation and personal factors, but the review maps activities rather than proving efficacy, meaning these roles are documented but not tested for effectiveness.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2024Motivation to participate in structured physical activity for autistic youth: A systematic scoping review.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic youth are less motivated for structured physical activity when they feel incompetent, socially excluded, or overwhelmed by sensory noise. They participate more when given choices from known activities and explicit instructions. Mainstream group-based approaches often thwart these needs.
• PTOTRCT2024Accuracy deficits during robotic time-constrained reaching are related to altered prefrontal cortex activity in children with cerebral palsy.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationChildren with cerebral palsy had worse reaching accuracy, especially with their non-preferred arm. Contrary to expectations, their prefrontal cortex activity dropped under time pressure. Higher prefrontal activity was linked to better accuracy in the CP group, suggesting this brain area plays a role in compensating for motor deficits.
• PTOTRCT2024Effectiveness of unilateral lower-limb exoskeleton robot on balance and gait recovery and neuroplasticity in patients with subacute stroke: a randomized controlled trial.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationIn subacute stroke, 4 weeks of robot-assisted overground walking plus conventional rehab improved balance more than conventional rehab alone. Both groups improved, but the robot group had higher Berg balance scores and better affected-leg gait measures.
• SLPSurvey2024Exploring the association between social camouflaging and self- versus caregiver-report discrepancies in anxiety and depressive symptoms in autistic and non-autistic socially anxious adolescents.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceIn 82 socially anxious adolescents, camouflaging was linked to their own higher anxiety and depression reports, not to closer agreement with caregivers. Adolescents reported more symptoms than caregivers.
• OTOther2024Attitudes of employers towards people with visual impairment: a scoping review.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesEmployers consistently hold negative or neutral attitudes towards hiring people with visual impairment, often driven by ignorance about how work tasks are performed. While direct experience and vocational rehabilitation support improve attitudes, implicit biases remain strong even after brief educational interventions.
• PTPilot2024On the role of visual feedback and physiotherapist-patient interaction in robot-assisted gait training: an eye-tracking and HD-EEG study.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationGame-based feedback held patients' gaze on the monitor 90% of the time, requiring little therapist talk. Chart and emoticon feedback led to more distraction, so therapists must speak up to keep patients focused.
• PTOTSLPCohort2024Sub-acute stroke demonstrates altered beta oscillation and connectivity pattern in working memory.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationStroke patients with poor motor recovery showed slower reaction times and lower working memory accuracy than healthy controls. Their brain scans lacked the normal beta rebound and frontal-parietal connectivity seen in patients with good recovery, linking these neural patterns to cognitive deficits.
• PTOTPilot2024The Effect of the Mediterranean Diet-Integrated Gamified Home-Based Cognitive-Nutritional (GAHOCON) Training Programme for Older People With Cognitive Frailty: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologiesOlder adults with cognitive frailty who used a gamified home training app improved their diet adherence, cognitive scores, and walking speed over 12 weeks. A control group doing only self-revision saw their diet knowledge drop significantly.
• OTSLPSurvey2024Exploring the 'EarSwitch' concept: a novel ear based control method for assistive technology.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationMost people with neurological disorders can still voluntarily rumble their ears. Self-reported ability matched observed eardrum movement in 80% of cases tested. This suggests ear rumbling is a viable, invisible switch for assistive technology, particularly for those with motor neurone disease.
• OTQualitative2024Caregiver-centred empowerment for families raising autistic children: A qualitative case study from Argentina.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceIn Argentina, caregivers of autistic children said empowerment meant learning rights, finding peer support and creating local solutions. Poverty, insurance barriers and weak policy implementation often blocked access to services and support.
• PTPilot2024Quantitative analysis of the gaze and the kinetic/kinematic evaluation of expert and novice physical therapists during standing/sitting assistance: a pilot study.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesExpert and novice physical therapists' overall gaze did not differ, but experts looked at the head longer and more often. They also guided a deeper forward trunk lean and slower movement.
• OTOther2025Sensory Profile-2 in Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Analysis within the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Framework.Journal of autism and developmental disordersThe Sensory Profile-2 maps mostly to body functions, not environment. It covers 26 of 111 autism functioning categories, so use it with other tools for activities and environment.
• PTOTOther2025The Use of Extrinsic Performance Feedback and Reward to Enhance Upper Limb Motor Behavior and Recovery Post-Stroke: A Scoping Review.Neurorehabilitation and neural repairFeedback during upper-limb stroke practice may change movement speed, accuracy, learning, and compensation, but studies are too varied and small to tell therapists which feedback to use.
• Cohort2025Intersectional inequities in maternal mortality: Examining the compounded risks for black birthing individuals with physical disabilities.Disability and health journalBlack birthing individuals and people with physical disabilities each had higher maternal death risk during delivery hospitalization; when adjusted only for hospital and year, their combined risk exceeded the sum of separate risks.
• PTOTSLPSurvey2025Community Priorities for Outcomes Targeted During Professional Supports for Autistic Children and their Families.Journal of autism and developmental disordersCommunity priorities for autistic children focus on wellbeing and understanding, not changing autistic traits. Practitioners rated reducing sensory seeking and social skills training as inappropriate more often than parents did. All parent-focused outcomes were considered appropriate and medium-to-high priority.
• Other2025Autism Knowledge Assessments: A Closer Examination of Validity by Autism Experts.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAutism experts flagged 34% of questions in four autism knowledge assessments as potentially inaccurate and 17% as ambiguous. Six questions had most experts disagreeing with the authors' answer. Use these tools cautiously in research.
• OTMeta-Analysis2025A Meta-Analysis of Self-Management Interventions in Teaching Daily Living Skills to Autistic Individuals.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAutistic participants showed gains in daily living skills across 15 single-case self-management studies, but study quality was weak and community living skills were not tested.
• PTOTRCT2025Feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a skill-based lifestyle intervention for enhancing cooking abilities and physical fitness in young adults with intellectual disabilities.Disability and health journalYoung adults with intellectual disabilities improved cooking independence and lower body strength after a 12-week combined cooking and exercise program. Participants gained about three independent cooking skills and 25 pounds of leg strength. The single-arm pilot lacked a control group.
• SLPSurvey2025Clinician Opinions Regarding the Usefulness of the BOSA for ASD Assessment in a Service for Children Aged Under 12 Years.Journal of autism and developmental disordersMost clinicians found the BOSA less helpful than the ADOS-2 for diagnosis, citing issues with parent administration. However, they valued observing parent-child interactions and noted the BOSA might help specific cases like selective mutism.
• Cohort2025Retrospective Analysis of Burn Injuries in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersChildren with autism spectrum disorder who suffered burn injuries had nearly double the odds of dying within a year compared to those without ASD. They also required critical care and mechanical ventilation more often, suggesting higher injury severity or complications.
• SLPPilot2025EMT en Español Para Autismo: A Collaborative Communication Intervention Approach and Single Case Design Pilot Study.Journal of autism and developmental disordersTwo Spanish-speaking caregivers learned to coach their autistic toddlers using a home-based intervention. Both used the strategies more often after training. The children communicated more, though gains depended heavily on speech-generating devices and could not be separated from other supports.
• PTOTRCT2025Cost consequences analysis of early vocational rehabilitation compared with usual care for stroke survivors.Clinical rehabilitationEarly specialist vocational rehabilitation cost more than usual care but produced only a tiny, non-significant gain in quality-adjusted life years. The study's conclusion is highly uncertain because 85% of cost data was missing. Do not assume this proves the intervention is poor value.
• SLPOther2025The Knowledge of Autism Questionnaire-UK: Development and Initial Psychometric Evaluation.Journal of autism and developmental disordersThe KAQ-UK is a 14-item questionnaire measuring autism knowledge in the UK. It shows promise for distinguishing knowledge levels, particularly identifying parents of autistic people as having higher scores, but requires further validation before clinical use.
• PTOTCohort2025Coaching stroke survivors to persevere with practice: An observational behavioural mapping study.Clinical rehabilitationTherapists frequently used coaching strategies like monitoring practice quality and providing feedback, but rarely set collaborative long-term goals or prescribed independent home exercises. This structured, therapist-led approach may increase dependence and leave survivors unprepared for the transition to home-based rehabilitation.
• PTCohort2025Shear wave elastography in the assessment of gastrocnemius spastic muscle elasticity: influences of ankle position and muscle contraction.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicineUltrasound stiffness readings were higher in the affected calf than the less-affected calf when the ankle rested. Stretching or contracting the calf changed the readings, so use a neutral resting position for comparison.
• PTOther2024Baby Observational Selective Control AppRaisal (BabyOSCAR): Convergent and discriminant validity and reliability in infants with and without spastic cerebral palsy.Developmental medicine and child neurologyA 1-minute video of spontaneous movements scored by BabyOSCAR was related to later spastic CP diagnosis and gross motor level. It also showed higher asymmetry in unilateral CP. Arm scoring was less consistent than leg scoring.
• PTOTSLPRCT2024Therapeutic singing and expiratory muscle strength training in Parkinson's disease: a mixed methods comparison.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesExpiratory muscle strength training and therapeutic singing produced no significant differences in quality of life, depression, or anxiety in people with Parkinson's disease. Both interventions were highly adhered to, but quality of life scores worsened over time regardless of treatment.
• PTOTSLPOther2024Barriers for work in people with multiple sclerosis: a Norwegian cultural adaptation and validation of the short version of the multiple sclerosis work difficulties questionnaire.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesThe Norwegian version of the MSWDQ-23 reliably measures work difficulties in people with multiple sclerosis. It distinguishes those who worked recently from those who did not, and separates relapsing-remitting from progressive MS based on physical barriers. Use it to identify specific employment obstacles during routine follow-up.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2024Building trust in long-term care settings using assistive technology: a systematic review.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesIn long-term care, trust in assistive technology depends on reliable, useful, easy devices, privacy, caregiver support, and realistic expectations. Technical failures, stigma, and weakened contact can reduce trust and lead to abandonment.
• PTOTOther2024Baby Observational Selective Control AppRaisal (BabyOSCAR): Construct validity and test performance.Developmental medicine and child neurologyThe BabyOSCAR test reliably measures spontaneous movement in infants, but arm and leg scores reflect separate abilities. Clinicians should use the total raw score for quick screening and prediction, while keeping arm and leg subscales distinct for detailed analysis or research.
• PTOTSLPOther2024Pharmacological and neurosurgical management of cerebral palsy and dystonia: Clinical practice guideline update.Developmental medicine and child neurologyFor dystonia in cerebral palsy, the guideline suggests considering oral/enteral baclofen, clonidine, gabapentin, botulinum toxin, intrathecal baclofen, or deep brain stimulation only after discussing benefits and harms with the family; it suggests against routine trihexyphenidyl and benzodiazepines, and against levodopa or medical cannabis.
• PTPilot2024Enhancing cardiovascular patients' knowledge of air pollution: a pilot study evaluating the impact of an educational intervention in cardiac rehabilitation.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesIn 43 cardiac rehabilitation patients, self-reported knowledge about air quality, pollutants, and protective steps was higher after a 1-hour lecture with PowerPoint and a leaflet. It did not test behavior or cardiovascular events.
• PTOTSLPCohort2024Fatigue among children and adolescents with acquired brain injury in a specialized neurorehabilitation setting.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesFatigue improved during intensive neurorehabilitation, but only self-reported changes in general and sleep fatigue were significant. Parents consistently rated their child's fatigue as more severe than the children did, particularly regarding cognitive difficulties.
• PTOTSLPOther2024Artificial intelligence tools for engagement prediction in neuromotor disorder patients during rehabilitation.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationAI models predicted patient engagement during robot-assisted gait rehab with high accuracy. Combining heart rate and sweat signals outperformed single signals. Data augmentation further improved prediction. This supports real-time monitoring to adapt therapy intensity, but clinical utility is not yet proven.
• PTOTOther2024A co-design process to develop personalized mobility programming for individuals with mobility impairments.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesPeople with neurological mobility impairments and clinicians co-designed four mobility programs. The paper reports design, not evidence that they help.
• PTOTQualitative2024The coping strategies employed by individuals with chronic low back pain: secondary qualitative analysis of data from diverse adult populations in two sub-Saharan African countries.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesAdults in Nigeria and Zambia mixed helpful and harmful strategies to manage back pain. Avoiding heavy lifting and pacing work helped, but poverty forced many to keep lifting. Relying on painkillers for daily function was common, and no strategy fully stopped the pain.
• PTOther2025Association Between Challenging Behaviour and Sleep Problems in Adults Enrolled in the Global Angelman Syndrome Registry.Journal of autism and developmental disordersNo significant links were found between challenging behaviour and early development, gut symptoms, seizures or communication in 37 adults with Angelman syndrome. Sleep arousal problems and lack of physical therapy were associated.
• SLPSystematic Review2025Methods of diagnosis and rehabilitation of dysphagia in patients with spinal cord injury: a systematic review.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicineSwallowing assessment after spinal cord injury is varied, with bedside evaluation, a severity scale, a self-report questionnaire, and a moving x-ray swallowing study most common. Four rehabilitation protocols were reported, so no standard treatment protocol can be recommended.
• PTOTSLPQualitative2025COVID-19 Pandemic Experiences of Families in Which a Child/Youth Has Autism and Their Service Providers: Perspectives and Lessons Learned.Journal of autism and developmental disordersFamilies and providers described navigating unclear essential service designations and rapid shifts to virtual care. While some found virtual options flexible, providers struggled to engage children remotely. Parents reported increased stress and isolation, though some adapted by using online tools to maintain connections.
• PTPilot2025The adaptation of the GameSquad exergaming intervention for young adults with Down syndrome: A pilot feasibility study.Disability and health journalYoung adults with Down syndrome completed 12 weeks of home Ring Fit Adventure with weekly Zoom coaching: 19 of 20 stayed in the study, most reached gameplay goals, and sessions often reached moderate intensity. No serious adverse events were reported.