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 579 OF 704 · NEWEST FIRST

• OTSLPSystematic Review2025Disability barriers autistic girls face in secondary education: A systematic review.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic girls often mask difficulties to fit in, leading teachers to miss their need for support. They face barriers like sensory overload, exclusion, and gendered assumptions. Clinicians should advocate for quiet spaces, explicit social coaching, and recognizing that quiet compliance may hide significant struggle.
• PTCohort2025Correlation between aspiration of calcific rotator cuff tendinopathy and morphology on imaging.PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitationIn 292 aspiration cases, 58.2% had calcium aspirated. Type I x-ray calcifications and larger deposits were more likely to succeed; ultrasound morphology was not associated with success.
• SLPRCT2025Cortical Activation during Swallowing Exercise Tasks: an fNIRS Pilot Study.DysphagiaEffortful saliva swallowing produced the strongest left motor cortex activation in healthy young adults, higher than normal swallowing or tongue pressing. Tongue pressing did not produce greater motor activation than normal swallowing, and sensory-region changes did not separate the tasks.
• PTOTSLPRCT2025Analgesic efficacy of transcranial combined peripheral magnetic stimulation in chronic nonspecific low back pain: a fNIRS study.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicineAdding brain stimulation to peripheral magnetic stimulation did not reduce pain more than peripheral stimulation alone. Both groups improved similarly on pain and disability scores after two weeks of treatment.
• SLPOther2025Who am I now? A scoping review on identity changes in post-stroke aphasia.Disability and rehabilitationIdentity in post-stroke aphasia was described as changing through stories, roles, stigma and social interaction in 20 reports. Speech-language pathologists can support story sharing and ask about identity.
• PTOTSLPCohort2025Prevalence of function-limiting late effects in survivors of head and neck cancer.PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitationSurvivors of head and neck cancer referred to rehabilitation had high rates of complex late effects. Ninety-two percent had swallowing difficulty, eighty-six percent had facial or neck lymphedema, and seventy-eight percent had cranial nerve dysfunction, indicating a need for comprehensive multidisciplinary assessment.
• SLPOther2024Investigating frank autism: clinician initial impressions and autism characteristics.Molecular autismFive-minute clinician reviews of autism evaluations matched the final diagnosis 79% of the time. Clinicians were better at identifying non-autistic people, and roughly 33% of autistic participants did not receive an initial impression of autism.
• PTOther2024Hip Strength, Change of Direction, and Falls in Recreational Pickleball Players.International journal of sports physical therapyRecreational pickleball players who reported falling while playing were older and slower on a change-of-direction test, but hip strength, single-leg squat form, and ankle motion were not different between the groups.
• SLPQualitative2024How People Living With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Use Personalized Automatic Speech Recognition Technology to Support Communication.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHRPersonalized speech recognition captions were often inaccurate during everyday conversations. Three people with ALS used them selectively, sometimes preferred writing or typing, and partners sometimes got hints but not reliable understanding.
• PTCohort2024Handrim kinetics and quantitative ultrasound parameters for assessment of subacromial impingement in wheelchair users with pediatric-onset spinal cord injury.Gait & postureIn 11 wheelchair users with pediatric-onset SCI, greater variability in propulsion force was linked to a thicker supraspinatus tendon, while higher force application effectiveness was linked to a thinner tendon. These relationships were inconsistent and did not establish a clear protective mechanism.
• PTNarrative Review2024Women's Health Across the Lifespan: A Sex- and Gender-Focused Perspective.Physical therapyMost physical therapy guidelines are not sex or gender specific, while reported health risks, care patterns, and outcomes for women differ from pregnancy through older age.
• PTOTSystematic Review2024Relationships Between Socioecological Factors and Self-Efficacy to Participate in Physical Activity for Adults With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: An Integrative Review.Physical therapySelf-efficacy to exercise in chronic pain is shaped by more than just the patient's mindset. Social support, a trusting provider relationship, telehealth access, and community program availability all significantly influence whether patients feel capable of being active.
• SLPCohort2024Extended High-Frequency Thresholds: Associations With Demographic and Risk Factors, Cognitive Ability, and Hearing Outcomes in Middle-Aged and Older Adults.Ear and hearingExtended high-frequency hearing loss correlates with age, sex, and race. It explains some self-reported hearing difficulty in older adults but adds no predictive value for speech-in-noise scores or for people with normal conventional hearing.
• SLPCohort2024Long-Term Outcomes of Cochlear Implantation in Usher Syndrome.Ear and hearingEarly cochlear implantation in Usher syndrome yields excellent long-term speech recognition, especially in children implanted before age 8. Adults implanted later gain sound awareness but not oral communication skills. Outcomes are stable for USH2 and USH3, though variable in USH3.
• PTCohort2024Validity, Agreement and Reliability of the ForceFrame Dynamometer in Patients with Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury.International journal of sports physical therapyThe ForceFrame reliably measures knee extension strength in ACL patients but underestimates absolute values compared to the gold standard. A change of 22-27% is needed to confirm real improvement. It performs poorly for knee flexion, which requires cautious interpretation.
• PTCohort2024Dynamic Functional Ability in Lacrosse Players in Relation to Development of Sport-Related Onset of Musculoskeletal Pain.International journal of sports physical therapyAmong 128 lacrosse players, the youngest group made more errors on single-leg squats and drop jumps. Over six months, more drop-jump errors were linked to low back pain, and worse single-leg squat scores to lower-extremity pain.
• SLPCohort2024The Lifelines Cohort Study: Prevalence of Tinnitus Associated Suffering and Behavioral Outcomes in Children and Adolescents.Ear and hearingReported suffering from ringing ears was more common in adolescents than children and was linked to anxiety, depression, somatic complaints, attention problems, fatigue and poorer peer relationships.
• SLPNarrative Review2024Implementing Ecological Momentary Assessment in Audiological Research: Opportunities and Challenges.American journal of audiologyEcological Momentary Assessment captures hearing experiences in real life via smartphone prompts, avoiding memory bias. It faces challenges with participant burden and older adults' tech skills. Clinicians should note it is currently a research tool, not a clinical intervention.
• SLPOther2024Automatic Speech Recognition of Conversational Speech in Individuals With Disordered Speech.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHRPersonalized speech recognition made fewer recognition errors than the unadapted model for adults with disordered speech, but conversational speech was still harder to recognize than read speech.
• PTOther2024Are Anthropometric Measures, Range of Motion, or Movement Control Tests Associated with Lumbopelvic Flexion during Barbell Back Squats?International journal of sports physical therapyIn experienced lifters, more ankle dorsiflexion range went with more low back and pelvis flexion during a barbell back squat. Body proportions, hip range, and low-load control tests did not go with that flexion.
• PTCohort2024Relationship Between the Results of the Landing Error Scoring System and Trunk Muscle Thickness.International journal of sports physical therapyGymnasts with higher landing error scores had significantly less change in deep trunk muscle thickness during a plank. This suggests poor deep trunk muscle activation may contribute to risky landing mechanics, warranting assessment of core stability in athletes with landing deficits.
• OTSLPOther2025The Oxford Visual Perception Screen: Development and normative data of a standardised assessment for visual perception difficulties.Clinical rehabilitationOxford Visual Perception Screen now has 107 healthy older participants' scores that set normal score thresholds. It can flag possible visual perception problems after stroke, but has not yet been validated against a gold standard.
• Other2025EURO-MUSCULUS/USPRM phantom recipe for (musculoskeletal) interventional ultrasound training.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicineThis is a training-phantom recipe for ultrasound-guided procedures. It reports no patient outcomes, so it does not change clinical practice.
• SLPCohort2025Narrative abilities of autistic and non-autistic adolescents: The role of mentalising and executive function.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchAdolescents with weaker mentalising skills produced less structured and coherent narratives, regardless of autism diagnosis. Autistic adolescents scored lower on narrative structure, but diagnostic status did not predict narrative coherence once mentalising and language skills were accounted for.
• SLPNarrative Review2025Informed consent in assisted reproductive technology: Implications for pediatric clinicians.Developmental medicine and child neurologyThis review urges clinicians to recognize the emotional and financial burden of assisted reproduction. When assessing developmentally delayed children, understanding the parents' journey and the limitations of pre-implantation genetic testing can improve communication and trust.
• SLPOther2025Validation of the European Portuguese Version of the Yale Pharyngeal Severity Rating Scale.DysphagiaThe European Portuguese Yale Pharyngeal Severity Rating Scale shows excellent agreement when the same expert rates the same images twice. Agreement between different raters is moderate overall but high among those with experience using the scale. New users need training before relying on it.
• PTOTOther2025Quantifying arm swing in Parkinson's disease: a method accounting for arm activities during free-living gait.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationA new sensor method filters out arm activities like holding objects to measure arm swing during daily walking. In people with Parkinson's, this filtering revealed significantly larger increases in arm swing range after medication compared to unfiltered data. This offers a more sensitive tool for tracking treatment response in real-world settings.
• SLPOther2025"You should smile more": Population-level sex differences in smiling also exist in autistic people.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic girls and women smiled more than autistic boys and men, looking more like neurotypical boys than neurotypical girls. This sex-based difference persisted in autism, meaning autistic females may present with fewer obvious social traits and risk being missed by standard male-referenced assessments.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2025A review of concurrent sonified biofeedback in balance and gait training.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationMost studies testing sound-based balance feedback reported improvements, but many were small and short-term. Clinicians should view this as promising research rather than established practice, as evidence for long-term skill transfer is currently lacking.
• OTCohort2025Using a Functional Upper Limb Motor Task to Predict Cognitive and Functional Decline in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease.Neurorehabilitation and neural repairIn adults who were cognitively intact, had mild cognitive impairment, or had Alzheimer's disease, variability on a brief non-dominant hand spoon task predicted one-year change in function and a cognitive test. Average task time did not predict cognitive change.
• PTSystematic Review2025Is dynamic balance impaired in people with non-specific low back pain when compared to healthy people? A systematic review.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicineMost studies in this review found people with non-specific low back pain had impaired dynamic balance compared with healthy people, but the evidence was very low and the cross-sectional studies cannot show cause.
• SLPCohort2024Child and family characteristics associated with verbal communication difficulties in adolescents with autism and other developmental disabilities.Research in developmental disabilitiesAdolescents with autism had verbal communication difficulty more often than adolescents with other developmental disabilities (47.4% vs 14.6%). Lower early expressive language was associated with later difficulty. Maternal education, race, insurance, and sex showed mixed links.
• PTCase Report2024Effects of robot exoskeletal-assisted gait training on gait ability in a pediatric patient with peripheral polyneuropathy: a case report.Journal of physical therapy scienceA boy with suspected Guillain-Barré improved walking and balance after robot exoskeleton-assisted gait training added to intravenous immunoglobulin, physical therapy and occupational therapy. This single case cannot show which treatment caused the change.
• SLPOther2024Evaluating Changes in Adult Cochlear Implant Users' Brain and Behavior Following Auditory Training.Ear and hearingAuditory training improved pitch discrimination in cochlear implant users, but gains did not generalize to understanding speech in noise. Brainwave measures failed to detect these behavioral improvements, so objective electrophysiological testing is not yet a reliable way to track training progress.
• OTCohort2024Transition Readiness Among Youth Accessing Mental Health Services With Physical Health Co-Morbidities.Child: care, health and developmentYouth with mental health and physical health conditions reported higher transition readiness, especially medication management, appointment keeping, and tracking health issues. Attention problems were linked to lower readiness.
• OTPilot2024Influence of chair seat forward tilt angle on upper limb dexterity improvement in seated tasks: a pilot study.Journal of physical therapy scienceWith a knee pad, a 30-degree forward seat tilt produced a mean of 32.5 pegboard pins in 60 seconds in 17 healthy men, versus 29.7 at 0 degrees and 30.6 at 15 degrees.
• SLPOther2024Chronic Electro-Acoustic Stimulation May Interfere With Electric Threshold Recovery After Cochlear Implantation in the Aged Guinea Pig.Ear and hearingIn aged guinea pigs, chronic electro-acoustic stimulation did not cause greater acoustic hearing loss than surgery alone. However, it appeared to block the normal recovery of electric thresholds, suggesting stimulation might interfere with neural healing after implantation.
• SLPCohort2024Comprehension of Miranda warnings in adults with chronic, moderate-severe traumatic brain injury.Journal of communication disordersAdults with chronic moderate-to-severe TBI understood Miranda warnings less accurately than non-injured peers. SLPs should evaluate legal comprehension for individuals with TBI interacting with the justice system, as complex language and stress may further impair their ability to exercise rights.
• PTOther2024Limitations of Separating Athletes into High or Low-Risk Groups based on a Cut-Off. A Clinical Commentary.International journal of sports physical therapySplitting athletes into high or low risk groups using cut-offs like 90% strength symmetry hides the true relationship between test scores and injury. It discards data, inflates errors, and prevents personalised care. Track continuous values instead to make better decisions.
• OTSurvey2024Young Carers' Identification: Comparing Adolescents' and Parents' Perspectives.Child: care, health and developmentParents reported more household illness or disability than adolescents did, but adolescents reported more caring activities than parents did. Agreement on who was ill or disabled was low, so neither report alone captures young carers.
• SLPCohort2024Exploring cross-linguistic differences in parental input and their associations with child expressive language in ASD: Bulgarian versus English comparison.International journal of language & communication disordersBulgarian parents of children with ASD used fewer words but more verbs and statements than English parents, who used twice as many questions. However, parental question use predicted child expressive vocabulary equally well in both language groups.
• PTOTSLPNarrative Review2024Multimodal Technologies for Remote Assessment of Neurological and Mental Health.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHRCombining speech, video, and text data in remote assessment platforms improves diagnostic accuracy and robustness compared to using any single data source alone. Multimodal analysis provides a more holistic view of neurological and mental health status for clinicians.
• SLPCohort2024Electrocochleography in Cochlear Implant Recipients: Correlating Maximum Response With Residual Hearing.Ear and hearingIn cochlear implant recipients, larger intraoperative electrical responses and less spatial shift of these responses were associated with better preoperative hearing. This suggests these measures can objectively track residual cochlear health, potentially replacing subjective visual interpretation of the signals.
• PTOTOther2024The effect of non-pathological neck pain on hand grip strength in healthcare practitioners across three different head positions: a cross-sectional study design.Journal of physical therapy scienceAmong 46 healthcare workers, neck pain did not lower grip strength, and head position did not change grip strength overall. Grip was highest in neutral and lowest in extension, but the differences were not clear.
• OTSLPNarrative Review2024How auditory processing influences the autistic profile: A review.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchAutistic people’s auditory challenges are heterogeneous and linked to reduced filtering, adaptation, and increased distress in noisy settings. Noise-canceling headphones may increase participation. Music and repetitive behaviors can be pleasurable, so avoid assuming all sensory reactivity is negative.
• PTSurvey2024Influence of caregiver understanding of their capability to perform activities of daily living, disease comprehension, and attitudes on occupational low back pain: a cross-sectional study.Journal of physical therapy scienceCaregiver ratings of repositioning, stroke, rheumatoid arthritis, and residual-function use were linked to low back pain. The study cannot show that changing these factors prevents pain.
• PTOTCohort2025Predictive factors for functional and motor recovery following spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage.Journal of rehabilitation medicineEarly sitting ability predicted recovery after intracerebral haemorrhage. Patients unable to sit without physical assistance or maintain sitting for 2 minutes had poorer function, motor recovery and transfers. This does not prove that training sitting improves outcomes.
• Systematic Review2025The needs of family members of people with severe or profound intellectual disabilities when collaborating with healthcare professionals: a systematic review.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDRFamily members of people with severe or profound intellectual disability wanted professionals to see their relative as a person, treat them as experts, keep them informed, and build trusted, accessible relationships.
• SLPOther2025Validity and Reliability of Dysphagia Outcome Severity Scale (DOSS) When Used to Rate Flexible Endoscopic Evaluations of Swallowing (FEES).DysphagiaExperienced speech pathologists using the Swedish Dysphagia Outcome Severity Scale to rate silent endoscopic videos agreed strongly with each other and with the gold standard assessment. The scale appears valid and reliable for use with FEES, even without audio or patient history.
• Other2025Leveraging Observation Research to Improve Instruction for Students With Intellectual Disability: Guidance for Adapting Tools.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID