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 673 OF 704 · NEWEST FIRST

• PTOTSLPOther2026Associations Between Comorbidities, Developmental Status, and Disease Severity in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study in China.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchIn this Chinese cohort, 96.6% of 1279 autistic children had at least one other diagnosed condition: 87.3% intellectual or developmental disability, 45.3% food refusal, 16.9% insomnia. Children with these conditions tended to score higher for autism severity.
• PTPilot2026Inter-rater reliability of the instrumented lean-and-release (iLEAN) test for manual assessment of reactive balance: a pilot study in simulated older adults.Journal of physical therapy scienceTwo assessors using a hand-held device got similar scores for how much lean a person could recover from, best in the backward direction. Findings come from 16 healthy young women wearing weights to mimic older bodies, not from older patients.
• OTSurvey2026Occurrence and Correlates of Suicidal Thoughts Among Young Autistic Users of a Mental Health App.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchNearly two thirds of young autistic people using a UK mental health app reported suicidal thoughts, and it was as common at 11 to 13 as in the older users. Depression, self-harm, physical abuse and a gender minority identity went with higher rates; using the term neurodiversity themselves went with lower ones.
• OTSystematic Review2026Scoping Review: Culturally Appropriate Care for Arab Elders in Long-Term Care Settings.OTJR : occupation, participation and healthNo study has yet looked at culturally appropriate care for migrant Arab Elders in residential aged care homes. The 13 papers found cover culturally and linguistically diverse residents broadly, and the reviewers point to co-design with Elders and families as the untested next step.
• OTOther2026Understanding the Impact of Screening Location on Depressive Symptom Scores Among People With Spinal Cord Injury.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationTotal depression scores did not differ significantly between people with new spinal cord injuries screened at home and in hospital (median 7.5 vs 6 on a 0-27 scale). Emotional symptoms and suicidal thoughts were more common at home.
• OTSystematic Review2026Home Modification Outcomes for Adults Aged 50 Years and Over and Their Relatives: A Scoping Review.OTJR : occupation, participation and healthAcross 38 studies, home modifications most often helped older adults keep bathing, dressing and moving around their home safely, with less fear of falling and less need for paid or family care. Three studies found no reduction in falls.
• PTSystematic Review2026Exploring the Feasibility and Patient Acceptance of RAGT for Overground Ambulation in Adults With Guillain-Barré Syndrome: A Scoping Review.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationAcross four small studies and 19 adults with Guillain-Barré syndrome, patients completed robot-assisted gait training and only one adverse event was reported, pain from a device's saddle. No study compared it with conventional therapy, so whether it improves walking is unknown.
• SLPOther2026Reliability between measurements obtained by caliper and digital photography in facial anthropometry.CoDASFacial measurements taken from 2D photographs came out smaller than the same points measured with calipers, and the two free programs agreed only partly, depending on the point and the person's sex. The authors advise measuring directly where possible.
• PTOTOther2026Quantification of Lower Extremity Dressing Movements in Patients With Stroke.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationHow a stroke patient raises their trousers differs with how much help they need. Those needing supervision or hands-on help put much less weight through the affected leg and used different trunk and pelvic movement than those who were independent.
• Survey2026Youth Participation, Agency and Well-Being in Hospital-Linked Contexts: Evidence From the KIDS Programme.Child: care, health and developmentAdolescents in hospital-linked KIDS advisory groups said they were listened to and respected, and those who felt real influence and support reported more emotional and academic benefit. Experiences differed: some were happy but felt their work went unnoticed outside the group.
• OTCase-Control2026Visual Exploration and Construction Strategies Underlying Performance in the Block Design Task in Autism.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchAutistic adults did about as well as non-autistic adults on the block design task, but solved it differently. They looked between the model and the blocks more often and built designs pattern by pattern; those approaches were the ones linked to success.
• SLPCohort2026Hearing assessment of infants with congenital syphilis.CoDASNo hearing loss was found in infants treated for congenital syphilis. Sixty-one of 65 passed newborn screening and none of the 23 seen at 3 months had abnormal brainstem responses. Most did not return for that check.
• PTCase Series2026Feasibility and safety of training with an exoskeletal robotic device for Japanese individuals with spinal cord injuries: a retrospective study.Journal of physical therapy scienceSeventeen of 28 adults with spinal cord injury walked with the ReWalk exoskeleton and crutches under close supervision. 12 walked indoors on the flat, five outdoors including slopes. Eight dropped out or needed substantial help, and skin problems were more common than in earlier studies.
• OTQualitative2026The Early Movers Clinician's Guide: Co-Designing a Resource for the 24-Hour Movement Guidelines in Paediatric Occupational Therapy.Child: care, health and developmentOTs and caregivers said the 24-hour movement guidelines' time targets felt judgemental and one-size-fits-all, and its sitting and restraint language ignored children who need those supports. Their co-designed guide drops the numbers, leads with family goals, and comes in clinician and caregiver parts.
• SLPPilot2026Exploratory study on the effect of orofacial myofunctional therapy on habitual tongue resting position in people with obstructive sleep apnea.CoDASTwelve weeks of orofacial myofunctional therapy in ten adults with obstructive sleep apnea came with fewer oxygen desaturation events and better reported sleep, but the tongue's resting position moved less than a millimetre and there was no control group.
• SLPOther2026A novel context-discrepancy assessment of impression management facets in autistic and non-autistic adults: an initial validation.Molecular autismWhen social demands rose to a mock job interview, autistic adults reported more inauthenticity and self-monitoring; non-autistic adults did not. Effort and anxiety rose for both groups, with anxiety rising more steeply in autistic adults.
• PTOther2026Inter-rater reliability of affected-side weight bearing ratio measurement in postoperative patients with proximal femoral fractures.Journal of physical therapy scienceTherapists measuring how much weight a patient put on their operated leg after hip fracture surgery got almost identical readings, even from a single attempt and as early as day three. The test needs only two scales and a set of parallel bars.
• OTSystematic Review2025What are the steps to resolution taken by key stakeholders following a case of workplace bullying: A scoping review.Work (Reading, Mass.)Many documented ways to resolve workplace bullying worked poorly or not at all, and 45.8% of the approaches were left to the victim to do alone. Leaving the job or separating the two people were the only approaches reported to help.
• OTNarrative Review2025A culturally integrative occupational therapy practice model based on traditional Chinese health culture in Mainland China.Hong Kong journal of occupational therapy : HKJOTA conceptual paper rather than a study. It argues that traditional Chinese health ideas such as Yin-Yang balance and living in step with nature fit occupational therapy models, but it treats no patients and reports no outcomes.
• PTCohort2026Peer Exercise Leaders Can Accurately and Reliably Rate Intensity of Older Adult Exercisers With the Balance Intensity Scale: A Prospective Cohort Study.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationVolunteer peer exercise leaders judged older adults' balance exercise intensity almost as closely as an expert, and agreed with each other closely, after one 90-minute online session. Two weeks later their ratings had drifted lower and were less accurate but their confidence had not dropped.
• SLPSurvey2026The Signposting Questionnaire for Autism-2 (SQ-A-2): using input from autistic adults to inform questionnaire development.Molecular autismRewriting autism questionnaire items with autistic adults' input made them work better: the adapted wording separated autistic adults from non-autistic adults more sharply than the original wording, and autistic participants preferred it. No cut-off score or accuracy testing yet.
• PTOther2026Prevalence and Predictive Factors of Active Myofascial Trigger Points Among Office Workers Using to Visual Display Terminals: A Cross-Sectional Study.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translation40% of office workers at a screen four or more hours a day had an active trigger point in the right upper trapezius and 35% in the left. Women were more affected than men, and more disability and lower pain thresholds went with them.
• PTOTSLPOther2026Maternal Responsiveness, Parenting Self-efficacy, and Economic Empowerment: Determinants of Infant Development in Pakistan.Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBPMore responsive, more confident mothers had lower odds of their baby showing developmental delay at six weeks, in communication, problem solving and personal-social skills. One check-up of 400 Pakistani mothers and babies, so it cannot show which came first.
• PTRCT2026Fundamental Movement Skill Development in Children With Intellectual Disabilities: An 8-Week Coach-Led and Parent-Supported Intervention.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDAdding parent-led home practice to a weekly coach session improved ball skills in children with intellectual disabilities more than the clubs' usual programme. The coach-led sessions alone did not. Running, jumping and balance did not improve either. Only 57 of 82 children were retested.
• SLPSurvey2026How Do Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) Know? A Survey of SLPs' Disciplinary Epistemology.International journal of language & communication disordersCanadian SLPs rated all seven proposed ways of knowing as important, most often naming relationships with clients and learning by doing. They valued research evidence but adapted it, and rejected the idea that quantitative research beats qualitative. Time and journal access were barriers.
• PTOther2026Influence of thoracic asymmetry on trunk movement patterns during sit-to-stand motion.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn healthy men, a more asymmetric upper ribcage went with more forward trunk bending during standing up, and a head that sat further forward at rest did too. This is a lab finding, not proof that changing posture improves standing.
• SLPOther2026Interrater reliability in the application of the VPAS-PB: analysis among experienced judges.CoDASThree experienced raters scored voice qualities consistently across most VPAS-PB adjustments in 10 vocally healthy men, but lip stretching and falsetto did not reach the same standard. Disordered voices and less experienced raters were not tested.
• PTOTMeta-Analysis2026Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Efficacy of Shorter Duration Modified Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (mCIMT) Programs.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationLower-dose constraint-induced movement therapy (under 39 hours of supervised training plus at least 10 hours a day of restraint) improved arm function after chronic stroke in 5 trials, but only real-world arm use held up at follow-up. Evidence quality was rated very low.
• PTOther2026The relationship between corticospinal tract and the affected lower limb function and walking ability in subacute stroke patients: a preliminary study.Journal of physical therapy scienceThe more intact the nerve fibres running from the brain to the spinal cord, the better the affected leg moved and the better the person walked, in people weeks after a stroke. This is a link, not proof of cause.
• SLPOther2026Evaluation of the Context-Based Prospective Memory (CBPM) task in neurotypical middle-aged and older adults: psychometric properties and sensitivity to age-related cognitive changes.CoDASA new shopping-mall memory test gave consistent scores when repeated and when rated by two assessors, and flagged the same problems as an established memory test. Middle-aged and older adults scored lower than younger adults, but not differently from each other.
• Other2026Transitioning Towards Quality-of-Care Assessment in Orthotics and Prosthetics Practice.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationNo finding to act on. This is an expert guidance piece on how orthotics and prosthetics should measure quality of care. It reports no patients and no outcomes.
• SLPCohort2026Multicenter Natural History Study and Long-Term Cochlear Implant Outcomes in Usher Syndrome Subtypes.Ear and hearingEvery implanted ear in this cohort of 33 people with genetically confirmed Usher syndrome gained hearing, and hearing aids lifted thresholds by about 20 dB. Hearing still worsened with age despite treatment.
• PTPilot2026Therapeutic Effect of Schroth Method on Plantar Pressure and Related Muscle Imbalance in Children and Adolescent With Idiopathic Scoliosis.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationSix months of Schroth gymnastics plus home core exercises reduced the spinal curve in 6 of 21 children and evened out their walking and trunk muscle asymmetry. Fifteen curves did not change and none worsened, but there was no comparison group.
• OTSLPCohort2026Feeding Therapy and its Relationship to Timing of Independent Oral Feeding for Preterm Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.Physical & occupational therapy in pediatricsPreterm infants referred to feeding therapy reached independent oral feeding 1.5 weeks later than those not referred, but they were also sicker and born earlier. Starting therapy earlier was linked to reaching full oral feeding slightly sooner. How often therapy happened made no difference.
• PTOther2026Relationship between thoracic alignment asymmetry and hip joint alignment during isometric hip rotation: a comparison of femoral head deviation between left and right sides.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn 26 healthy men, the femoral head sat further forward on the left than the right, and rotating the hip moved it in opposite directions on each side. A left-right difference in lower ribcage shape went with the resting hip difference; thoracic lean did not.
• PTOther2026Phase angle is associated with muscle endurance and estimated maximum oxygen uptake in healthy young males.Journal of physical therapy scienceHigher phase angle went with stronger knee extension and lower scores on the extensor muscle-fatigue measure in 24 healthy young men, and also went with higher estimated oxygen uptake. These are correlations, so nothing here shows phase angle causes endurance.
• PTCase Report2026Balloon-based exercise enhances abdominal activation: a comparison between one expert and one novice with chronic low back pain.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn a man with 10 years of low back pain, exhaling into a balloon thickened all three abdominal muscles more than a forced breath alone, while the trained instructor showed smaller gains and his transversus abdominis got thinner. Two people, no proof it works.
• PTSurvey2026Survey on attitudes toward end-of-life care among third-year students in the faculty of physical therapy: a study across the first and second semesters.Journal of physical therapy scienceMost third-year physical therapy students said they would want to be told their own diagnosis (88%) and prognosis (88%), but only half would tell a spouse. Students surveyed after their placement favoured less aggressive end-of-life treatment than those surveyed before.
• SLPOther2026Visual Communication Supports for the Assessment of Swallowing and Somatosensation in Adults With Down Syndrome.Perspectives of the ASHA special interest groupsA clinical focus article, not a research study. A speech-language pathology team describes the visual and AAC supports it built to help 14 adults with Down syndrome take part in swallowing and oral sensation assessments. No data were collected on whether the supports worked.
• OTPilot2025Acceptability and feasibility of online occupational performance coaching for parents of children with disabilities in the UK.The British journal of occupational therapyParents and therapists found the online coaching acceptable, and parents scored their children's occupational performance and their own satisfaction higher afterwards. With no control group and only eight families, this does not show the coaching caused the change.
• OTSystematic Review2025Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality training for improving social skills in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A systematic review.Hong Kong journal of occupational therapy : HKJOTOnly some of the seven randomised trials found virtual or mixed reality training improved social skills in autism; others found little or no difference. The largest effects came from a parent-supported computer game programme for children, and the studies were too different to compare.
• OTQualitative2025Patient experiences of occupational formulation: It's about getting to know me.Australian occupational therapy journalForensic patients described the occupational formulation as a getting-to-know-you piece. They felt listened to and trusted their therapist to write them accurately, but it also surfaced losses and the limits of secure care, and most had never reviewed it again with an OT.
• SLPCohort2025Parental Cognitive Stimulation of Young Children Before and After the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBPLow-income parents reported more talking and play with their young children after the pandemic began. Overall stimulation rose 9 percentage points and verbal responsivity 14 to 20. The quality of shared reading fell 14 points. Most families were not followed across the change.
• OTQualitative2025Examining the clinical utility of the Occupational Therapy Observation Tool-Adjustment Support Details (OTOT-ASD): Experiences of paediatric occupational therapists.Australian occupational therapy journalSix experienced paediatric occupational therapists who trialled a companion observation form alongside standardised tests with autistic children said it sharpened their clinical reasoning and reporting. Time was the main problem, and only one of six thought it made assessments more accurate.
• PTOther2026Minimum Detectable Change and Minimal Clinically Important Difference for the Box and Block Test and Fugl-Meyer Assessment in Moderate to Severe Chronic Stroke.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationThe Box and Block Test cannot be trusted in severe arm impairment. When the Fugl-Meyer arm score is 18 or below, more than a fifth of patients score zero blocks. Above that, larger gains are needed to beat measurement error.
• SLPQualitative2026An Australian Co-Designed Template for Accessible Medicines Information for People With Intellectual Disability.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDMedicine leaflets only work, people with intellectual disability said, if they match the Easy Read documents they use: plain words, real photos not cartoons, a picture for every sentence. They wanted their own medicine details filled in, and only common and serious side effects.
• OTSLPQualitative2026Exploring the Experiences of Caring for a Family Member With Intellectual Disabilities Displaying Behaviours That Challenge and/or Mental Health Difficulties Within the United Kingdom: A Meta-Ethnographic Review.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDFamily carers of people with intellectual disabilities described years of fighting for support, being left out of decisions about their relative, and reaching crisis before help arrived. They wanted professionals who listen, share their knowledge and build on strengths, not just problems.
• PTOTSLPSurvey2026Exploring Health Care Providers, Families and Educators' Perceptions of an Online Self-Paced F-Words for Child Development Foundations Course.Child: care, health and developmentPeople who took the free, self-paced F-words course rated it highly (mean satisfaction 8.5 out of 10) and said they used the F-words in goal-setting and family conversations. Families, health care providers and educators asked for shorter videos and more interaction.
• OTQualitative2026The use of telehealth as a strategy to provide occupational therapy services in South Africa.Work (Reading, Mass.)Occupational therapists said telehealth reached clients who lived too far away to attend, and worked well for anxious clients and children with autism. But they could not assess properly or build rapport remotely, and load-shedding, data costs and poor devices broke sessions.
• SLPCohort2026Narrative Ability in Swedish Children Treated for Posterior Fossa Tumours: Macro- and Microstructural Performance Before and 1-4 Weeks After Surgery.International journal of language & communication disordersChildren with posterior fossa tumours told less complete stories and made more grammatical errors than typically developing peers, before surgery and again 1-4 weeks after it. Average change across surgery was not significant.