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 642 OF 704 · NEWEST FIRST

• OTSLPQualitative2026Experiences of self-harm, suicidal ideation and mental health care among autistic youth.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic young people seeking help for self-harm or suicide described care that missed sensory and communication needs. They wanted written or nonverbal options, fewer social demands, and safety plans that reflected their real supports.
• PTOTSLPCohort2026Significant differences in evaluation of disability and health (ICF) core sets between stroke rehabilitants and rehabilitation team during the first year.Journal of rehabilitation medicineStroke survivors rated their own abilities higher than their rehab team did, especially in thinking and daily tasks, at one month. By one year, these views aligned more closely. Survivors saw little change in their own function, while the team recorded significant improvements.
• PTOTCohort2026Pharmacological and rehabilitation strategies in opioid-induced constipation: an observational study.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesAdding rehab to Naldemedine didn't improve bowel function or pain more than Naldemedine alone. Both groups improved. The rehab group reported higher satisfaction, likely due to self-efficacy rather than physiological changes.
• SLPOther2026Recordability of the vestibular cerebellar evoked potential.International journal of audiologyThe vestibular cerebellar evoked potential is difficult to record reliably, appearing in fewer than 60% of healthy young adults. Responses were strongest at midline and contralateral scalp sites, with left-ear stimulation yielding larger amplitudes. Reference electrode choice had negligible impact.
• PTOTOther2026Active robotic assistance for standing and sitting: experimental evaluation of handle trajectories.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationIn 15 young able-bodied adults, moving robotic handles reduced hip and knee effort during standing up and sitting down compared with static handles. Straighter handle paths gave the largest leg reductions, but required more upward force at the handles.
• OTOther2026Testing the usability of a voice control system for assistive robotic arms in people with neurological conditions.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationPeople with muscular dystrophy completed 93% of daily tasks with voice control, compared with 53% using a joystick. Voice control was rated easier, but the joystick was faster for some tasks.
• SLPSurvey2026Why do teachers with voice disorders keep teaching? Insights from applications of social capital motives.Logopedics, phoniatrics, vocologyTeachers who kept working with voice disorders prioritized maintaining their income above all else. Those with worse perceived voice quality or more frequent symptoms were less motivated by altruism or a sense of belonging, suggesting vocal strain erodes the emotional rewards of teaching.
• SLPOther2026Sources of Intelligibility of Distant Languages: An Empirical Study.Language and speechPeople can guess meanings of words in unknown languages better than chance. Success relies on linguistic affinity, cognates, phonological similarity, and word length agreement. Even distant languages like Japanese and Hindi yielded above-chance guesses, proving zero intelligibility is incorrect.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2026Explainability in AI-enabled medical neurotechnology: a scoping review.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationOnly 14 of 161 studies on closed-loop brain devices used explainable AI methods. Clinicians cannot currently rely on these tools to show why a device made a specific decision, as most algorithms remain opaque black boxes.
• Cohort2025Parental Stress and Family Quality of Life in Families of Individuals Living With Angelman Syndrome.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDRParents of individuals with UBE3A pathogenic variants reported the highest rates of clinically significant stress, driven by parent-related factors rather than just child behaviours. High parental stress consistently predicted lower family quality of life, particularly in emotional well-being and support satisfaction.
• SLPSurvey2025A Survey of Current Audiology Practice in Adult Cochlear Implant Programs and Its Impact on Access to Care.Ear and hearingHalf of surveyed audiologists reported wait times of four weeks or more for adult cochlear implant evaluations. Most recommended six follow-up visits in the first year, but telehealth was rarely used to replace routine in-person appointments. Manufacturer counseling did not shorten wait times.
• SLPPilot2025Using Pupillometry in Virtual Reality as a Tool for Speech-in-Noise Research.Ear and hearingPupil size measured inside a VR headset reliably tracked listening effort when the task got harder. However, simple virtual avatars watching the patient failed to change performance or effort compared to being alone. This proves the tech works for effort, but not yet for social presence.
• PTOTSLPCohort2025An elective two-week interdisciplinary acute rehabilitation program improves functional and speech outcomes in patients with Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesPatients with Parkinson's disease in a two-week inpatient program improved mobility, self-care, and voice. Gains were seen regardless of age, disease duration, or medication dose. No control group means natural progression or other factors cannot be ruled out.
• PTSLPCohort2025The Effects of Chronic Substance Misuse on the Auditory and Vestibular Systems: Preliminary Findings.Ear and hearingAdults with chronic substance misuse had poorer hearing across tested frequencies and more central balance abnormalities, including poor convergence, eye tracking, and tandem stance. Peripheral vestibular tests and speech-in-noise scores did not show clear group differences.
• SLPPilot2025Speech-in-Noise Ability and Signal to Noise Ratio Predict the Timing of Hearing-Impaired Listeners' Intertalker Saccades When Observing Conversational Turn-Taking: An Explorative Investigation.Ear and hearingHearing-impaired listeners with poorer speech-in-noise ability looked at the new speaker 100 milliseconds later than those with better ability. Eye movement timing did not change linearly with background noise levels, delaying at both the hardest and easiest settings.
• SLPMeta-Analysis2025Bibliometric analysis, systematic review of literature, and meta-analysis on the effect of amplification on voice production among teachers.Journal of communication disordersVoice amplification did not significantly reduce vocal strain metrics like pitch, loudness, or phonation time in teachers. Evidence remains inconclusive due to varied study designs and devices, so amplification alone is not a proven solution for voice disorders.
• Cohort2025Subcortical brain volume variations in autistic individuals across the lifespan.Molecular autismAutistic children had larger amygdala volumes than peers, but these shrank faster with age, leaving no difference in adults. Basal ganglia volume stayed larger across the lifespan. Ventricles enlarged faster in autistic adults, suggesting accelerated brain aging.
• SLPCohort2025Beyond Uniform Impairment: Investigating Declarative Memory Profiles in Nonspecific Mild Intellectual Disability Using Latent Profile Analysis.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDRMost children with mild intellectual disability showed widespread memory deficits, but 25% performed in the average or high range. This challenges the assumption of uniform impairment. Assessors should look for individual strengths, particularly in learning and associative recall, rather than assuming global memory failure.
• SLPQualitative2025Identity formation in bimodal-bilingual children of Deaf adults (Codas).Journal of deaf studies and deaf educationBimodal-bilingual adults described forming identities not as Deaf, hearing or Coda, but as different from both groups. They reported early visual sensitivity, metalinguistic awareness and social empathy from growing up between sign and spoken languages.
• SLPCohort2026Prognosis prediction of patients with disorders of consciousness based on digital twin brain models.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationAn EEG-based brain model predicted six-month consciousness outcome in 121 patients better than baseline diagnosis and traditional EEG features. It is not a treatment test and was not validated outside one coma centre.
• Other2026A forward dynamics framework for parameter optimization of the EMG-driven musculoskeletal model.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationUsing knee muscle electrical signals, a computer model estimated maximal knee extension torque in eight healthy adults. It did not test therapy outcomes, so it cannot guide patient care.
• PTOTSLPPilot2026Expressive language and social communication abilities in children with spinal muscular atrophy type 1.Developmental medicine and child neurologyChildren with later-onset SMA type 1 said far more words than those with early onset. Four of 37 screened positive for autism traits, but many parents could not answer questions because motor impairments blocked the behaviours the test asks about.
• Systematic Review2026Scoping review of secondary studies using the Federal Interagency of Traumatic Brain Injury Research datasets.Brain injuryA scoping review of 49 studies found that researchers rarely combine multiple datasets when analyzing traumatic brain injury data, likely due to inconsistent data collection forms. Most studies rely on a single dataset, limiting the potential for large-scale comparisons across different patient groups.
• PTOTOther2026Automated video analysis for early detection of bradykinesia in Parkinson's disease.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationAn AI system analyzing finger-tapping videos accurately distinguished people with Parkinson's disease from healthy controls, even when clinicians rated the movement as normal or only slightly impaired. This suggests subtle motor signs invisible to the eye can be detected objectively.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2026Robot-assisted therapy following stroke: what effects on quality of life, cognitive and psychosocial outcomes? A systematic review.Journal of rehabilitation medicineRobot-assisted therapy after stroke often improved quality of life, cognition, and psychosocial outcomes in the short term, but effects rarely persisted after treatment ended. Most studies measured these as secondary outcomes, so the evidence is preliminary and inconsistent.
• Other2026Artificial neural networks for HD-sEMG-based hand position estimation: addressing inter- and intra-subject variability.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationTraining the system with random electrode shifts and skin changes prevents accuracy loss when users put it on differently across sessions. Adding other people's data did not help if the user's own data was present. A brief personal calibration remains necessary.
• Other2026Dynamic current ratio control and biophysical modeling for personalised electro-tactile perception.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationThis paper describes a virtual reality tactile feedback system. It reports no clinical outcomes for patients and offers no guidance for therapy practice.
• OTOther2026Machine learning-based study of the predictors of clinically important change in patient-reported outcomes in bilateral upper-limb function in patients receiving robotic stroke rehabilitation.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesIn 123 people after stroke, machine-learning models could identify likely responders to six-week bimanual robotic therapy reasonably well. Time since stroke, quick task completion, and self-rated physical function stood out most often.
• SLPQualitative2025Mental Healthcare Services for Persons With Communication Disorders: Experiences of Mental Health Professionals in Gauteng.International journal of language & communication disordersMental health professionals in Gauteng reported feeling ill-prepared to treat clients with communication disorders, relying on self-taught strategies like closed-ended questions and family interpreters. This improvisation compromised confidentiality and trust, leaving both clinicians and patients frustrated and fearful.
• SLPQualitative2025Health From the Perspective of Adolescents With Intellectual Disabilities-Report From Poland.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDAdolescents with intellectual disabilities in Poland often described health as feeling good, not sick, and daily routine. Four participants struggled to define health, and some relied on mothers' words.
• OTSLPCohort2025Coping With Primary Progressive Aphasia: Factors Predicting Caregiver Psychological Wellbeing and Burden.International journal of language & communication disordersCaregiver burden tracked with the patient's behavioral disturbance and emotion recognition deficits, not their language skills. Dysfunctional coping predicted caregiver stress. Most caregivers had normal anxiety and depression scores, but burden varied significantly by PPA subtype.
• PTSLPSurvey2025Support Needs of Parents of Children With Congenital Anomalies Across Europe: A EUROlinkCAT Survey.Child: care, health and developmentAcross 10 European countries, parents of children with congenital anomalies reported unmet support needs, particularly for psychological help at diagnosis and guidance from general practitioners. Satisfaction with healthcare varied widely by country, but support from partners, family and peers remained consistently high.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2025Active upper-limb therapies for hand function, individual goal achievement, and self-care in children with cerebral palsy: A network meta-analysis.Developmental medicine and child neurologyModified constraint-induced movement therapy (mCIMT) and bimanual training (BiM) consistently improve hand function, goal achievement, and self-care in children with cerebral palsy. Action observation also improves bimanual hand function. No single therapy is clearly superior to the others for hand function, allowing choice based on child and family preference.
• PTOTCohort2025Pain characterization in osteosarcopenia: an exploratory study.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesPain was reported by 78.6% of 42 patients with osteosarcopenia, mostly in the lower back. Severity correlated with poorer balance and gait speed, but not with bone density. This suggests pain in this group is linked to muscle function rather than bone structure.
• SLPCohort2025The WHAM Study: Socio-Emotional Well-being Effects of Hearing Aid Use and Mediation Through Improved Hearing Ability.Ear and hearingHearing aid adoption was not linked to overall emotional or social well-being improvements; it was associated with lower depression only among people without tinnitus and lower total loneliness only among people over 65.
• OTSLPOther2025Singing Together: A Practice-Based Study of a Community-Based Choir for Neurodiverse Adults.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDSeven adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities participated in a 15-week community choir led by a music therapist. Caregivers and participants valued the social connection and belonging, but self-reported quality of life scores varied, with some feeling their disability had a worse impact after the program.
• SLPOther2025JACDI: WS-SF: A Short-Form Version of the Saudi Arabic Communicative Development Inventory.International journal of language & communication disordersA 100-word checklist for Saudi Arabic toddlers correlates strongly with full vocabulary scores and remains accurate for children under 18 months. It is validated for screening and research, not for diagnosing language disorders.
• SLPNarrative Review2025Vestibular Loss and Cerebellar Ataxia: A Practical Approach.Ear and hearingThis paper describes how to tell apart vestibular and cerebellar causes of dizziness. It lists signs and tests but reports no patient outcomes or treatment results, so it offers no new evidence to act on.
• SLPSystematic Review2025Examining Neurodiversity in Bilingual Development Research: Recent Insights Through an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Lens.International journal of language & communication disordersMost studies of bilingual neurodivergent children used tools made for monolingual children, and many tested only one language. This can make bilingual abilities look impaired when the problem is the measurement.
• OTSLPCohort2025PTSD Symptoms After Traumatic Versus Stressful Life Events in People With Mild Intellectual Disabilities: Proving the Null.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDRFor people with mild intellectual disabilities, stressful life events caused PTSD symptoms and daily life impairment just as severe as traumatic events. Clinicians should assess symptom severity directly rather than relying on the trauma definition to decide who needs treatment.
• SLPSurvey2025Foundational Reading Knowledge of Teachers of Students With IDD: Examining Experience, Degree and Time Use.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDRSpecial education teachers for students with intellectual disabilities answered only two-thirds of questions correctly on a test of foundational reading knowledge. More experience or advanced degrees did not consistently predict higher scores, suggesting current training is not reliably closing these gaps.
• Other2025Off-Label Antipsychotic Withdrawal in People With Intellectual Disabilities: Development and Internal Validation of a Prediction Model.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDRSevere/profound intellectual disability, higher baseline defined daily dose and higher stereotypy scores predicted unsuccessful off-label antipsychotic withdrawal. The model was tested only on the same data and did not explain all outcomes.
• SLPSystematic Review2025Phonological Awareness Skills in Thai-Speaking Children: A Scoping Review.International journal of language & communication disordersPhonological awareness strongly predicts reading in Thai-speaking children. Initial phoneme identification is the most useful screening task. However, no standardised test covers all skills, and current assessments miss speech sound disorders, limiting clinical utility.
• OTSystematic Review2025Barriers and facilitators of employment in severe mental illness: an umbrella review.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesSupported employment programs, particularly Individual Placement and Support (IPS), consistently help people with severe mental illness find and keep jobs. However, the evidence is weak because most underlying reviews were rated as critically low quality, so treat these findings as promising but not definitive.
• PTOTCohort2026Differences in female athlete triad risk factors between Japanese and American female runners: A comparative study.PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitationJapanese female runners had a higher prevalence of stress fractures and energy deficiency risk factors than American runners, despite similar rates of diagnosed eating disorders and low bone mineral density. This suggests Japanese athletes in this cohort faced greater overall Triad risk.
• PTOTSurvey2026Exercise modalities and outcome measures used in older adults after hip fracture with or without signs of cognitive impairment: a national cross-sectional e-survey of 90 out of 98 municipalities in Denmark.Journal of rehabilitation medicineDanish municipalities offer similar hip fracture rehabilitation regardless of cognitive status, but rarely screen for impairment or document specific plans for those with cognitive signs. Physiotherapists deliver most care, using functional and balance exercises, yet few use recommended pain or cognitive assessments.
• PTOTSLPOther2026Temporal External Validation of the TWIST Prediction Tool for Time to Independent Walking after Stroke.Neurorehabilitation and neural repairThe TWIST tool accurately predicts time to independent walking after stroke but was too optimistic for some scores. Refinements made it more conservative for those with a score of 3. Use the updated interpretation to avoid over-promising recovery timelines.
• PTRCT2026Effects of diaphragmatic breathing and manual diaphragm relaxation on respiratory muscle strength, chest expansion, pulmonary function, and sitting ability in children with diplegic cerebral palsy: A randomized controlled trial.Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicineAdding diaphragmatic breathing and manual relaxation to standard physiotherapy significantly improved inspiratory and expiratory muscle strength and lower chest expansion in children with diplegic cerebral palsy. There were no additional benefits for lung function or sitting ability compared to standard therapy alone.
• PTPilot2026Effects of carbon fiber custom dynamic orthosis proximal cuff design on foot loading during gait: A pilot study.Prosthetics and orthotics internationalNo custom dynamic orthosis cuff condition produced a clear foot-loading difference compared with walking without an orthosis. Five able-bodied participants and one participant with prior ankle fracture were tested.
• OTSLPOther2026Nor weak ties, nor strong ties: Personal support networks and relations between autistic peers.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceTwenty-one of 31 participants had autistic peers in their networks, but only two named them among their five closest daily supports. Peers were still important for crisis advice and autism-related support.