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 669 OF 704 · NEWEST FIRST

• PTOTCohort2026Medical complications in children with central nervous system injuries during inpatient rehabilitation.Journal of rehabilitation medicineAlmost all the children (59 of 64, 92%) had at least one medical complication during inpatient rehabilitation after brain or spinal cord injury. Sleep problems, pain and constipation were most common, but treating physicians judged most complications to have no consequences for rehabilitation.
• SLPCase-Control2026Neurobiological activity of the auditory pathway and memory: a comparative study in individuals infected with SARS-Cov-2.CoDASYoung adults who had COVID-19 scored lower than unexposed peers on short-term visual memory (2.8 versus 3.0) and showed earlier, larger P1 waves on the auditory evoked potential. Total memory scores did not differ.
• SLPPilot2026Speech therapy program for the rehabilitation of smell.CoDASEight adults with smell loss one to two years after severe COVID-19 completed a speech therapy program and daily home smell training. All improved and the authors report normal smell restored in 75%, but everyone was treated, so there was no comparison group.
• PTSurvey2026Attitudes, Norms, and Control: What Is Shaping Fijian Children's Physical Activity and Screen Time Behaviours?Child: care, health and developmentChildren were more likely to meet activity and screen guidelines when activity felt like something that would make them happier or help with schoolwork, and when caregivers felt able to set screen time rules. Caregivers' beliefs about what others expected showed no link.
• OTSurvey2026Perceived Accessibility of Living Environment and Services Questionnaire: Validity and Reliability.OTJR : occupation, participation and healthOlder adults with disabilities rated their neighborhoods as less accessible than those without. The new 9-item PALES matched their answers to researchers' own ratings and gave the same score when people answered again two weeks later.
• SLPCohort2026Perception of Brazilian and Portuguese teachers about the relationship between work and physical and mental health: analysis of associated individual and work-related factors.CoDASStress at work, no time for personal life, and dissatisfaction with pay, rewards or the job itself were the factors most strongly linked to teachers saying work harmed their physical and mental health. Portuguese teachers reported more physical-health harm (59.5%) than Brazilian teachers (27.3%).
• OTSLPSystematic Review2026Systematic Review of Group-Based Emotion Regulation Interventions for Autistic Children's Socio-Emotional Competence.OTJR : occupation, participation and healthGroup programmes teaching autistic children to recognise and manage emotions may improve social skills, emotional competence and empathy. All 17 studies reported gains, but several had no comparison group and the studies were too varied to pool, so the effect is uncertain.
• Systematic Review2026The Experiences of Autistic Healthcare Students in a Clinical Learning Environment: A Scoping Review.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic healthcare students described clinical placements as sensory overload, pressure to mask, and fear of disclosing their diagnosis, which left them exhausted and isolated. They also described strengths that placements rarely recognised.
• OTQualitative2026Occupational Therapy Professional Identity: Learning From the Muriel Driver Memorial Lectures.Canadian journal of occupational therapy. Revue canadienne d'ergotherapieAcross 43 Muriel Driver lectures, Canadian occupational therapy's shared identity stayed centred on occupation and social justice, even as the knowledge focus moved to the environment. Only three lectures discussed professional identity directly. Since 2012 the emphasis shifted from seeking medicine's legitimacy to influencing others to recognise the profession's values.
• Cohort2026Brief Report: Healthcare Utilization and Expenditure Trends Among Autistic Transition Age Youth.Journal of autism and developmental disordersOn Medicaid, autistic youth who also had an intellectual disability used more care and cost far more than those with autism alone, mainly psychiatric outpatient care. Costs per person rose sharply by adulthood even though fewer used services.
• SLPOther2026Impact of ageing on discourse types: a comparative study.CoDASOn conversation, narration and picture description tasks, older adults scored lower than younger and middle-aged adults. Picture description dropped most. Within the oldest group, conversation held up better than the other two.
• OTOther2026Effectiveness of earplugs and noise cancelling headphones to improve turboprop acoustic comfort.Work (Reading, Mass.)Noise-cancelling headphones made 24 passengers in a simulated turboprop cabin more comfortable than the turboprop noise alone. Earplugs helped less clearly, and their results no longer held once the analysis was adjusted for multiple comparisons.
• PTOTSystematic Review2026Motivation in motor training interventions after stroke-a systematic review.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesOnly five of 17 trials of stroke motor training found gains on both motivation and motor performance. Many trials that claimed to be motivating never measured motivation, and every trial was rated at high risk of bias.
• OTOther2026How few channels suffice? A hierarchical validation framework for minimal-channel wearable sEMG in upper-limb rehabilitation gesture recognition.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationFour forearm electrodes read eight hand and wrist gestures at 94.4% accuracy across 24 people, matching a six-electrode setup. Three electrodes reached 91.7%, but only 8 of 24 people matched their own best layout. Participants were healthy young adults, not patients.
• PTCase Report2026A Multimodal Approach for the Management of Moderate Hip Osteoarthritis in A Runner: A Case Report.International journal of sports physical therapyHip pain dropped from 61 to 52 out of 100 and function improved from 32 to 50 out of 80 after six weeks of manual therapy, exercise and graded running. This is one 75-year-old runner, so it cannot show the programme works.
• OTSLPCohort2026Reciprocal Associations Between Parental Anxiety/Depression and Emotional/Behavioral Difficulties in Autistic Children Following Their Diagnosis.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchParents' anxiety and depression and autistic children's emotional and behavioural difficulties did not predict each other over the three years after diagnosis. At diagnosis 55.2% of mothers and 42.7% of fathers had clinically significant symptoms, and 61.3% of children were in the clinical range.
• PTMeta-Analysis2026Physical Activity Levels of Early Childhood Educators: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Child: care, health and developmentAbout half of early childhood educators met the 150 minutes a week activity guideline, and children in their care tended to be more active when the educators were more active. The studies disagreed so widely, though, that the pooled average is only a rough guide.
• OTRCT2026Cognitive Orientation to Daily Occupational Performance (CO-OP) in Parkinson's: Randomized Trial Findings.Canadian journal of occupational therapy. Revue canadienne d'ergotherapieCO-OP occupational therapy improved self- and therapist-rated performance on goals chosen by people with Parkinson's compared with a waiting list, but a masked assessor's goal rating and measures of thinking, daily function, quality of life and self-efficacy showed no difference.
• PTNarrative Review2026Current Concepts in Hip and Core Assessment to Reduce the Risk of ACL Injury.International journal of sports physical therapy
• Narrative Review2026Intensity is not time: reframing dose prescription in post-stroke neurorehabilitation.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences
• PTOther2026The relationship between post-stroke fatigue and trunk impairment in the subacute phase: a cross-sectional study.Journal of physical therapy scienceTrunk control was the only one of five measures tied to fatigue in 20 people in the first weeks after a stroke: the worse their trunk control, the worse their fatigue. Sitting balance and coordination went with different kinds of fatigue.
• PTOTCohort2026Pressure injuries beyond acute care hospitals: a multicenter cohort study across rehabilitation settings.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences17.3% of patients admitted to inpatient rehabilitation already had a pressure injury, most stage 1 or 2, and 41.5% of those injuries healed during the stay. Those patients stayed longer and were less likely to be discharged routinely.
• SLPRCT2026Effectiveness of a myofunctional therapy program in the treatment of mouth breathing in patients with dental malocclusion: a pilot clinical trial.CoDASTwelve sessions of orofacial myofunctional therapy moved nine adults with dental malocclusion from mouth to nose breathing, eased respiratory symptoms and lengthened how long they could sustain a sound. Oral health quality of life did not improve. Small pilot, no sham group.
• PTCase Report2026Floor-Hugging intervention: findings from an exploratory study of a novel floor-exposure and post-fall contingency program.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesA six-session floor-exposure and floor-rising programme was feasible and safe for 8 healthy middle-aged adults. Balance, floor-rising and turning improved and held at 3 weeks. Concern about falling and quality of life did not change. With no control group, the programme cannot be credited.
• PTMeta-Analysis2026Physical Therapist Involved Physical Activity Interventions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of neurologic physical therapy : JNPTPhysical therapist-led activity programmes produced a small increase in monitor-measured activity for adults with neurological conditions, but no change in self-reported activity. Adding behaviour change techniques to exercise worked better than either on its own.
• SLPCohort2026Influence of cognitive functions on central auditory processing tests in university students.CoDASCentral auditory processing test results were mostly unrelated to cognitive scores, but poor verbal fluency went with abnormal temporal resolution, and poor working memory and problem solving with abnormal dichotic listening, in 95 university students. Four other auditory tests showed no link.
• PTProtocol2026A balance assessment and training protocol to address balance disorders in older and neurologically disabled adults.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesNo results yet from the protocol described here. Its precursor found that the worse someone's balance, the less accurately they tracked a moving target and the further they stayed from their balance limits. The training itself has not been tested against anything.
• PTOther2026Height estimation using forearm and lower leg lengths in healthy young individuals.Journal of physical therapy scienceTape-measuring forearm and lower-leg length together estimated standing height in 81 healthy physical therapy students with an error of ± 4.3 cm. The equation was reasonably accurate for women and clearly weaker for men.
• PTSurvey2026Relationship between fall experience and fear of falling, health literacy, and self-efficacy among community-dwelling older adults.Journal of physical therapy scienceOlder adults who feared falling had lower confidence in their ability to keep exercising (12.19 versus 13.99 on four items rated 1 to 5), while having actually fallen showed no such link. Exercise knowledge scores were much the same in every group.
• SLPCase-Control2026Screening and analysis of the risk of dysphonia based on general and specific screening protocols in teachers with and without voice disorders.CoDASTeachers with and without voice disorders scored almost the same on both dysphonia risk screening questionnaires, and both groups scored above the high-risk cutoff. Their risk scores did not match how severe their voices sounded. Only hydration and smoking separated the groups, slightly.
• OTOther2026Occupational Therapy as Integral Partner in Lower Limb Amputation Rehabilitation: A Clinical Commentary.Occupational therapy in health careThis is a clinical commentary, not a study. It proposes a four-phase framework for occupational therapy in lower limb amputation care, drawn from clinical experience and existing literature. No patients and no outcomes are reported.
• SLPPilot2026Specialist-mediated play therapy for toddlers with language developmental delay: a single-center observational pilot study.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesToddlers with mild language delay gained more when play sessions were designed and supervised by a developmental paediatrician than with clinic-based speech therapy or parent-led home training: language quotient 5.8 to 6.3 points higher at 12 months. Groups were not randomised.
• SLPCase Series2026Perception-production relationship in children with phonological disorder during speech therapy.CoDASChildren with phonological disorder scored far higher on perceiving speech, their own and other people's, than on producing the /l/ and /ɾ/ sounds. Seven of the sixteen had still not mastered those sounds at the end, and perception and production barely tracked each other.
• Case-Control2026Decreased BOLD Signal Variability in Middle-Aged and Older Adults on the Autism Spectrum.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchResting brain signal variability was lower in autistic adults aged 40 to 70 than in neurotypical peers, and it fell more steeply with age. No cognitive, behavioural or functional outcomes were measured.
• OTQualitative2026Occupational Therapist Perspectives: Factors Influencing Recovery Following Motor Vehicle Accident Injury.Canadian journal of occupational therapy. Revue canadienne d'ergotherapieOntario occupational therapists described recovery after a motor vehicle accident as shaped by the insurance claim as much as the injury: late referrals leaving clients with poor coping, adjusters declining funding, and lawyers asking therapists not to let clients improve too much before settlement.
• Qualitative2026Effective Partnerships With Parents of Adults With Mild Intellectual Disabilities in Residential Care: Experiences of Support Staff.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDSupport staff say parents are vital to good care, but the person they support decides how much parents are involved. Where service users wanted their parents kept out, staff could not partner with them, even when family involvement would have helped.
• OTSLPCohort2026Maternal And Paternal Differences in Parental Stress and Children's Autistic Features Among Parents of Preschool Autistic Children.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceChild behaviour problems went with higher stress for both mothers and fathers of autistic preschoolers. Mothers' stress also went with social communication, repetitive behaviour and adaptive difficulties; fathers' did not. Mothers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and more educated mothers, reported less stress.
• SLPOther2026Effect of speech recognition test presentation on cochlear implant user performance.CoDASCochlear implant users scored higher on speech tests when the tester spoke the sentences aloud than when they heard a recording: live voice beat recorded by 15.58 points for words and 19.07 for sentences in quiet. In noise the two came out level.
• PTOther2026Study on the prevalence of sarcopenia and dynapenia in outpatient hemodialysis patients in urban areas of Japan: a multicenter cross-sectional study.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn 177 Japanese haemodialysis outpatients, 35.6% had sarcopenia and 28.8% had dynapenia, meaning weakness with muscle mass intact. Dynapenia was more common in women than men (40.5% vs 25.7%), and those patients had more muscle mass than those with sarcopenia.
• PTSystematic Review2026Effects of Tibial Nerve Electrostimulation in Patients With Fecal Incontinence: A Systematic Review.Physiotherapy research international : the journal for researchers and clinicians in physical therapyAll 17 studies reported improvement in fecal incontinence after tibial nerve stimulation, but most had no control group and the sham-controlled trials found no difference from sham. There is not enough evidence to recommend it.
• OTQualitative2025Inclusion in Fieldwork: Academic Fieldwork Coordinators' Perspectives on Accommodating Disabled Occupational Therapy Students.Canadian journal of occupational therapy. Revue canadienne d'ergotherapieAcademic fieldwork coordinators say they patch together accommodations for disabled OT students with little institutional help. Accessibility advisors don't understand what fieldwork demands, there are no formal tools to check whether accommodations worked, and coordinators leave students to flag problems themselves.
• OTSystematic Review2025Determining the success of clinical outcomes for thumb immobilization compared to no thumb immobilization in adult non-displaced, non-surgically managed scaphoid fractures: A systematic review.Hong Kong journal of occupational therapy : HKJOTIn stable scaphoid fractures, casting with the thumb free made no clear difference to healing, pain, grip strength or wrist movement compared with casting that included the thumb. One small study of healthy volunteers found faster hand function without the thumb immobilised.
• OTCohort2025Pediatric normative data for the Complete Minnesota Dexterity Test.Journal of hand therapy : official journal of the American Society of Hand TherapistsChildren aged 7 to 18 now have age-based scores for all five parts of the Complete Minnesota Dexterity Test, covering one-handed and two-handed tasks, with times getting faster each year. The authors say one attempt per task is enough.
• PTOther2025Social and health impacts of exoskeleton use on care workers.Work (Reading, Mass.)A back-support suit worn by care workers for three weeks did not significantly lower measured muscle activity in real shifts, and discomfort rose while wearing it. Nurses said it helped their posture and bed care, but remembering to activate it added to their load.
• SLPRCT2026Musical auditory training and cognitive auditory training: effects on the perception of tinnitus disorder.CoDASAll three groups improved, including the placebo group that watched silent films while listening to Mozart. Cognitive auditory training also reduced tinnitus loudness, but it did not beat musical training, and the study was too small to be sure.
• PTOTSLPCase Report2026Lorazepam for post-operative pediatric cerebellar mutism syndrome: A case report.Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicineOne 11-year-old boy with post-operative cerebellar mutism after medulloblastoma surgery gained 40 WeeFIM units the week after lorazepam was started, having gained 1 the week before, and lost ground when it was stopped. Four other drugs were on board as well.
• Other2026Increased c-Fos expression in lateral habenula during social transmission of negative valence in prairie voles.Molecular autismPrairie voles that watched a partner get foot shocks did not freeze more at the time but a day later froze more to the tone, groomed and reared more, and had higher c-Fos in the lateral habenula. Reuniting the pair overnight removed the effect.
• SLPQualitative2026Addressing Future Changes in Communication Using Hypothetical Scenarios With People With Primary Progressive Aphasia and Care Partners: A Conversation Analytic Study.International journal of language & communication disordersThe therapist raised future planning by keeping it hypothetical, asking 'if you get worse' and using 'one' rather than the person's own decline. Three of the four couples let the topic drop; one pressed for prognosis.
• PTSystematic Review2026A Systematic Review of Post-Procedural Rehabilitation Protocols following Percutaneous Needle Tenotomy and Ultrasonic Debridement for Gluteal, Proximal Hamstring, and Patellar Tendinopathy.American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitationAfter needle tenotomy or ultrasonic debridement for gluteal, hamstring or patellar tendinopathy, 27 studies show no agreed rehabilitation protocol: 70% restricted exercise, 44% gave a structured programme, and none set return-to-play criteria.
• PTOTRCT2026Dissociable effects of β-tACS on spectral power and network organization for proximal versus distal upper-limb recovery in subacute stroke: double-blind, randomized, sham-controlled trial with high-density EEG.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation20 Hz stimulation over the stroke-side motor cortex, added to the same physiotherapy and occupational therapy for ten sessions over two weeks, improved arm recovery more than sham. Gains were clearest for shoulder and elbow control, not the hand, and held at one month.