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 668 OF 704 · NEWEST FIRST

• PTOTSystematic Review2026Involvement in daily life activities from the perspectives of children and young people with childhood-onset disabilities: A scoping review.Developmental medicine and child neurologyChildren with disabilities describe involvement as how much of their mind is in the activity, from switched off to fully absorbed to exhausted. It also meant having a say, belonging and being noticed; watching instead of taking part did not count.
• PTSystematic Review2026Ethical and bioethical issues in physical therapy: A systematic scoping review.Physical therapyAcross 108 studies, physical therapists are described leaning on intuition more than ethics codes, and feeling moral distress when time, staffing or rules block the care they think right. No treatment was tested; cancer care, digital health and equity are barely studied.
• PTCohort2026Psychological mediators in chronic spinal pain after fully remote digital rehabilitation: a real-world, large-sample study.Physical therapyAmong 14,818 people with long-standing back or neck pain in a remote app-based program, those whose fear avoidance, depression and anxiety improved most also reported the lowest pain at the end. There was no comparison group, so this is an association, not proof the program works.
• Other2026Ultrasound-guided musculoskeletal interventions and professional boundaries: an international expert opinion.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicineAn international group of 20 rehabilitation doctors argues that ultrasound-guided injections should stay physician-only, and that regulators should say so explicitly. It reports no patients or outcomes, so it is a position statement, not evidence.
• SLPPilot2026A Customised, Intensive Parent-Child Interaction Therapy for Children With Down Syndrome: Findings From a Real-World Pilot Effectiveness Study.International journal of language & communication disordersParents of young children with Down syndrome learned most of the programme's interaction and signing strategies to its accuracy targets in about 11 weeks of coaching, but used them more often only slightly, and children's language gains cannot be attributed to the programme.
• OTCohort2026The impact of specialist resource centres on autistic pupils' experience of mainstream school.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceWhere autistic pupils were placed made no measurable difference to their wellbeing, belonging or sense of support. Across resource centres and ordinary mainstream classes, it was peer and teacher support that went with better outcomes.
• OTPilot2026Impact of Occupation-Based Groups on Occupational Performance and Satisfaction Outcomes: Pilot Study.OTJR : occupation, participation and healthInpatients practising cooking, laundry and housework in a small group rated their performance and satisfaction no differently from those given one-to-one sessions. Both groups improved, but with 21 people and no randomisation this cannot show the two are equivalent.
• SLPCohort2026Parenting Stress and Stressful Life Events Among Caregivers of Toddler Siblings of Autistic and Non-Autistic Children.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchCaregivers of toddlers who have an autistic older sibling reported more parenting stress than caregivers of toddlers with only non-autistic siblings, and more stressful life events since the toddler's birth. Differences were moderate, and the life-event finding comes from just 47 caregivers.
• OTPilot2026Emotional and Motor Improvements in Children With ADHD Following Equine-Assisted Occupational Therapy.OTJR : occupation, participation and healthChildren with ADHD scored better on mood, self-efficacy and a core stability test right after one 45-minute equine-assisted OT session. There was no control group and only 31 children, so this cannot show the programme works.
• SLPSystematic Review2026Outcomes of Voice Therapy in Behavioral Voice Disorders: A Scoping Review-Part A.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice FoundationAcross 438 studies of voice therapy for adults with behavioral voice disorders, the measures used most were vocal complaint, laryngeal imaging, self-assessment, acoustic analysis and auditory-perceptual judgment. Aerodynamic testing appeared in only 174 of them, and the authors say the field's assessment habits have barely changed in twenty years.
• PTQualitative2026Perceptions of Biomechanical Devices in Collegiate Baseball Pitchers and Training Staff: A Qualitative Study.International journal of sports physical therapyPitchers and staff said the pitching sleeve and the force plate made workload, fatigue and recovery visible, and pitchers used the numbers to set goals and change training. Staff struggled to interpret the outputs, and fitting the devices into existing systems was a burden.
• PTOTOther2026Feasibility of the Meta Quest 3 for upper limb kinematic analysis: accuracy, consistency, agreement and reliability.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationThe Meta Quest 3 headset tracked wrist movement closely enough to match a laboratory motion capture system for movement time and speed in 39 healthy adults. Smoothness measures varied too much between repeats to be trusted, and vertical tasks tracked worse than horizontal ones.
• Survey2026Knowledge and use of the international classification of functioning, disability and health: a cross-sectional survey among health professionals in Pakistan.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesTwenty-five of 52 health professionals in Pakistan said they knew the ICF. Of the 23 who then answered four questions about it, only 9 got at least two right. Claimed familiarity may be no more than recognising the acronym.
• PTCohort2026Stair walking is associated with returning home after inpatient stroke rehabilitation in Belgium and Switzerland: a multicentric retrospective study.Archives of physiotherapyStroke patients who could manage stairs at discharge, even with difficulty, were much more likely to go home than those who could not, once living situation and memory problems were accounted for. 1475 patients, three centres.
• PTRCT2026Clinical outcomes of rehabilitation with a robotic anthropomorphic exoskeleton in patients with motor-incomplete spinal cord injury: a multicenter randomized controlled trial.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicineAdding robotic exoskeleton gait training to conventional rehabilitation did not improve walking speed in chronic, incomplete spinal cord injury. After four weeks, 33% of the exoskeleton group had improved by at least 10% versus 47% of the control group. Both groups improved overall.
• SLPOther2026Measuring Spectrotemporal Sensitivity in Cochlear Implant Users With a Reaction-Time Paradigm: A Comparison of Two Implementations.Trends in hearingCochlear implant users' reaction times to a change in an ongoing noise were reproducible across a phone app and a lab laptop 2 to 3 months apart. Faster responses went with better speech-in-noise scores. The app is not yet ready for clinic use.
• OTCohort2025Exploring Dual-Task Performance Relationships for Veterans with Lower-Limb Amputation.Occupational therapy in health careWalking while doing serial subtraction cut gait speed 23.30% and correct answers 11.62%, but how much a person declined did not separate those who fell repeatedly from those who fell rarely or not at all, and it did not match their reported daily activity.
• OTOther2025Intuition in Occupational Therapists' Clinical Reasoning: A Scoping Review.OTJR : occupation, participation and healthAcross 22 mostly theoretical articles, occupational therapists describe intuition as fast, experience-based judgement that develops with expertise and helps fill gaps when information is incomplete. The review warns it can bias decisions, and no validated tool measures it in occupational therapy.
• OTSystematic Review2025Economic Evidence in Occupational Therapy: A Rapid Review.Canadian journal of occupational therapy. Revue canadienne d'ergotherapieOccupational therapy's economic evidence is mixed: in home care, some studies found savings or lower costs while others found no cost difference. In about 40% of the 135 studies the specific occupational therapy contribution was not described.
• PTOther2026Influence of Humeral Retrotorsion on Glenohumeral Range of Motion in Healthy Collegiate Softball Players.International journal of sports physical therapySoftball pitchers and position players had the same shoulder rotation. Correcting rotation for humeral retrotorsion, the bony change throwing causes, left no internal rotation deficit on average, but an external rotation deficit appeared.
• PTOTOther2026Performance Quality Rating Scale for Somatosensation After Stroke Version 3: Reliability, Feasibility.OTJR : occupation, participation and healthA new 10-point scale rates how somatosensory loss after stroke shows up in activities a client chose. Two clinicians watching the same video agreed fairly well, with some disagreement. Four averaged together agreed very well. It got easier with practice.
• OTSurvey2026Relationships Between Frequency of Attendance, Engagement and Independence in Everyday Activities Among Children and Youth With Intellectual and Other Developmental Disabilities: The Association With Comprehension Difficulties.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDChildren with disabilities who also struggled to understand things attended everyday activities less often, were less engaged and were less independent than children with disabilities but no comprehension difficulties. Gaps were widest in complex tasks like shopping, managing money and transport.
• PTNarrative Review2026Rehabilitation of Capitellar Osteochondritis Dissecans (OCD) Lesions in Gymnasts: A Review of Current Concepts and Treatment.International journal of sports physical therapyNo patients were treated and no outcomes were measured. This is an expert-authored rehabilitation framework for gymnasts after surgery for capitellar osteochondritis dissecans, built from existing literature and the authors' own clinical experience.
• OTCohort2026Autistic young people's psychological well-being in school.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic teenagers like school less and are unhappy there more often than non-autistic peers, but those gaps disappear once academic self-concept, bullying and peer problems are accounted for. How autistic students rate their own academic ability tracked most closely with how they felt at school.
• OTRCT2026Goal Satisfaction, Not Attainment, Predicted Occupational Performance Improvement During Behavioral Activation/Problem-Solving Rehabilitation After Breast Cancer.OTJR : occupation, participation and healthHow satisfied women felt with how each week's goal turned out was the strongest predictor of improvement in performing and enjoying daily activities. Whether they met the goals, or whether weekly goals matched their long-term priorities, did not predict improvement.
• PTOTSurvey2026Pregnancy occurrence, intendedness, and outcomes among U.S. females with and without disability, 2011-2019.Disability and health journalFemales with disability reported more unintended pregnancies, miscarriages and other non-live birth outcomes than females without disability. Younger disabled females (15-25) were no more likely than peers to have an unintended pregnancy, but had more miscarriages.
• SLPSystematic Review2026Speech-language-hearing interventions in orofacial functions in individuals with Down syndrome: a scoping review.CoDASTen small studies, most without a control group, suggest speech-language therapy for orofacial function in people with Down syndrome can improve sucking, chewing and swallowing. The single breathing study found only a marginal effect on sleep apnoea, and the speech results were mixed.
• SLPCohort2026Individual, occupational, and dysphonia-related factors in operational and administrative military police officers.CoDASOperational and administrative military police reported hoarseness, vocal effort and voice-related absence at similar rates, and about 9% of all officers screened as likely to have dysphonia. Operational work meant more noise, more threats and less support at work.
• PTOther2026Biomechanical effects of passive exosuit assistance on tibiofemoral loading and dynamic stability during downhill walking.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationPassive exosuit assistance during downhill walking cut the accumulated load on the knee over stance by about 7%, and people adopted shorter, faster, wider steps. Peak knee force was unchanged, and most of the load reduction tracked the shorter steps.
• SLPCohort2026Nutritional and speech therapy guidance for the introduction of foods in infants: dietary profile and risk of pediatric feeding disorder.CoDASInfants whose caregivers got joint nutrition and speech therapy guidance on starting solids had more varied diets, ate less ultra-processed food, and screened at lower risk of a feeding disorder than those who did not. Both groups grew normally. This snapshot cannot show cause.
• PTSurvey2026Learning, Communication, and Use of Evidence Based Practice in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Rehabilitation: An Exploratory Survey of French Physiotherapists.International journal of sports physical therapyPhysiotherapists qualified 5 years or less were more likely to use PubMed than those qualified more than 15 years. Lack of time was the main barrier to training, and email or messaging apps the usual way to reach other professionals. Only 62 replied.
• PTSurvey2026Utilization of Imaging in Young Athletes with Low Back Pain.International journal of sports physical therapyMost sports medicine physicians surveyed (68% of 397) order lumbar X-rays at the first visit for a young athlete with extension-based back pain, and 13.1% order MRI, CT or SPECT then as well. This is what they report doing, not evidence that imaging helps.
• Pilot2026Mixed reality assisted target localization for transcranial magnetic stimulation navigation: a feasibility study.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationMixed reality navigation located TMS targets on plastic head models with median errors between 1.9 and 2.6 mm and under 10 minutes per run. No patients took part, so this is device accuracy, not evidence that treatment improves.
• OTCohort2026Adverse Childhood Experiences in Autistic and Neurotypical Girls.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchAutistic girls had more parent-reported adverse childhood experiences than neurotypical girls, though not in any one category. In both groups, at least one ACE went with more anxiety and depression.
• PTOTCohort2026Relationships Among Activity, Motor Skill Performance and Executive Function in Preschool Children: Observational Report.Child: care, health and developmentPreschoolers who jumped further, balanced longer, gripped harder or ran faster in the supine timed up and go also did better on tests of holding back a response and remembering where things were. How much they moved, sat and slept showed no link to those scores.
• PTCohort2026Evaluation of Reactive Strength Index During Single-Limb Vertical Jumps and Isokinetic Strength Five to Eight Months After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.International journal of sports physical therapyIn athletes after hamstring-graft ACL reconstruction, reactive strength on single-leg jumps tracked quadriceps strength at five and seven months but not by eight months. Jump symmetry stayed below the return-to-sport threshold.
• SLPOther2026Visual Gestures of the Head and Eyebrows Support Prosody Perception for Individuals with Cochlear Implants.Trends in hearingHead nods and eyebrow raises on one word made listeners echo that word in a higher pitch even when the voice carried no emphasis. Cochlear implant users leaned on those gestures more: 37% versus 15% of a real pitch peak's effect.
• Other2026Remote assessment of infant development: Is universal screening of early motor milestones within reach?Developmental medicine and child neurologyAn opinion piece arguing that wearable sensors and AI video analysis might eventually allow universal infant motor screening. It reports no new patients or outcomes, so there is nothing here to change practice on.
• PTCohort2026Functional reorganization of the contralesional precentral gyrus following acute subcortical ischemic stroke and its association with gene expression profile.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationActivity in the left motor cortex, opposite the stroke, was low in the first week after a right-sided subcortical infarct and had risen by 3 months. Patients whose activity rose more also improved more on motor scores. All 22 received routine care only.
• PTOTCohort2026Profiles of Quality of Life Outcomes Observed in Rehabilitation Patients Using Latent Profile Analysis.Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitationRehabilitation patients sorted into four quality-of-life patterns that cut across diagnosis, not by injury type: two groups doing well, one average group with pain, and the largest group (47%) with poor physical function and independence. No treatment was tested.
• OTSurvey2025Exploring occupational therapists' use of movement guidelines for young children with disabilities.Canadian journal of occupational therapy. Revue canadienne d'ergotherapiePediatric OTs in Canada agreed the 24-Hour Movement Guidelines matter for preschoolers with disabilities and were open to using them, but most knew the guidelines only vaguely and half said no implementation tools came with them. Training and confidence were the gaps.
• OTSurvey2025Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Restrictions: Follow-Up on Changes Within Canadian Academic and Fieldwork Curricula.Canadian journal of occupational therapy. Revue canadienne d'ergotherapieCanadian occupational therapy programs were back to in-person teaching and pre-pandemic graduation timelines by 2023, keeping some online elements. Fieldwork placements are still hard to fill, and educators still flag students' communication and interpersonal skills as a concern.
• OTSystematic Review2025Occupational Therapists' Psychotherapy Competence: A Scoping Review of Secondary Data.Canadian journal of occupational therapy. Revue canadienne d'ergotherapieAcross 104 articles, the review points to supervision, further training, experience and learning from colleagues as the ways therapists build confidence, and finds no clear route to competence. Entry-level training leaves therapists unsure, and those in their first five years need support.
• OTOther2025Supporting Sustainability: A Philosophical Analysis of Certain Assumptions Underlying Occupational Therapy.Canadian journal of occupational therapy. Revue canadienne d'ergotherapieNo finding to act on. This is a philosophical essay about the ideas underneath occupational therapy, not a study of patients or treatments.
• OTCase Report2026Challenging Case: Health Care Professionals as Cultural Brokers for a Boy From Central America With Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Trauma and Stressor-related Disorder.Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBPOne boy with ADHD, trauma and autism improved on stimulant and guanfacine treatment, but cost and language barriers blocked psychotherapy, and his mood later worsened. What helped was cultural brokering: staff attended his school meeting and helped the family with housing and prescriptions.
• Narrative Review2026The Concept of Shaping Applied to Locomotor Interventions: Clinical and Robotic Strategies to Facilitate and Progress Variable Stepping Training at Higher Intensities.Neurorehabilitation and neural repairA narrative review arguing that walking training after neurological injury should be intense and varied, with difficulty progressed the way shaping works in CIMT. It reports no patients of its own; the outcome numbers come from earlier trials it cites.
• PTRCT2026Cueing-assisted gamified augmented-reality home rehabilitation for gait and balance in people with Parkinson disease: feasibility and effectiveness in the clinical pathway.Physical therapyIn 92 people with Parkinson disease, a home augmented-reality exercise platform was feasible and well liked, and Timed Up and Go improved by 0.34 seconds. That is below the threshold considered clinically important, and the trial had no control group.
• PTOTOther2026Spinal cord neuromodulation for autonomic recovery following spinal cord injury: a scoping review.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationSpinal cord stimulation may improve blood pressure, bladder, bowel and sexual function after spinal cord injury, but the evidence is small case series and cohort studies with no randomised trials. Some had blood pressure spikes, and benefits varied.
• SLPCase-Control2026Are brief batteries able to identify aphasia in elderly people? A study with the ABLA Battery.CoDASA brief 10-task language battery separated 16 older adults with post-stroke aphasia from 16 healthy peers on every task, with the aphasia group scoring lower throughout. It has not been tested against a full language assessment, so it screens, it does not diagnose.
• PTCohort2026WHODAS 2.0 to Assess Disability in the Rehabilitation of Individuals With Chronic Respiratory Conditions: Responsiveness and Interpretability.Physiotherapy research international : the journal for researchers and clinicians in physical therapyThe WHODAS 2.0 disability questionnaire detected improvement in 33 people with chronic respiratory conditions after an eight-week supervised exercise programme, with scores falling from 44.98 to 35.49. A drop of at least 6.22 points may be the threshold for a meaningful change.