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.

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• SLPPilot2026Evaluation of the SWAN Game-Based Approach to Re-Building Numeracy Skills in Aphasia: Feasibility and Preliminary Findings.International journal of language & communication disordersA home tablet game for number skills in aphasia was easy to stick with and most people enjoyed it, but gains on number reading and writing began before the game started and a non-numerical control task also improved. Everyday number tasks did not improve.
• SLPCohort2026Combined effect of self-perceived voice disorders and hearing loss on social acts in older adults: a 1-year longitudinal study.Journal of physical therapy scienceOlder adults who reported voice problems went out less over a year, from 4.1 to 3.2 days a week. Those with hearing problems alone showed no significant change. People with both declined too, but that combined result was only marginally significant.
• SLPOther2026When the First Pulse Fades: 75% Reduction in Precedence Effect in Cochlear Implanted Rats.Trends in hearingCochlear-implanted rats still gave the first pulse in a burst extra weight for judging sound direction, but about 75% less than hearing rats, and this did not grow as pulses came faster. Deafening early or in adulthood made no difference.
• SLPOther2026Identifying Hearing Difficulty Moments in Conversational Audio.Trends in hearingSoftware can flag the moments in ordinary conversation when a listener signals they missed what was just said, using sound alone. Reading a transcript instead does not work: that scored no better than spotting "what" and "huh".
• SLPCohort2026Brainstem Correlates of Tinnitus and Hyperacusis in Normal-Hearing Listeners: Distinct Neural Signatures Linked to Cochlear Nerve Degeneration.Ear and hearingPeople with normal hearing tests but tinnitus or sound sensitivity had weaker auditory nerve responses. Tinnitus, not sound sensitivity, tracked boosted early brainstem activity; sound sensitivity, not tinnitus, tracked boosted later responses. The two symptoms appear to arise from different brain changes.
• OTSLPQualitative2026'I Know Death': Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Death Among Middle-Aged Adults With Intellectual Disabilities in South Korea.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDBereaved middle-aged South Korean adults with intellectual disabilities described death as frightening, and as a move to an afterlife where their parents watch over them. Most wanted to live long and stay healthy; some said they would accept death calmly.
• PTRCT2026Association Between Changes in Shoulder Strength and Self-Reported Shoulder Symptoms in Patients With Hypermobility Following 16-Weeks of High-Load or Low-Load Exercise: A Secondary Analysis of an RCT.Physiotherapy research international : the journal for researchers and clinicians in physical therapyShoulder strength gains, particularly in external rotation and scaption, were linked to better self-reported shoulder function and, for scaption, less pain in people with hypermobility, but strength changes explained only a small part of the improvement.
• SLPCohort2026Developmental Trajectories and Influencing Factors of Aural/Oral Performance in Mandarin-Speaking Children with Cochlear Implants Using the PEACH Scale.Trends in hearingChildren implanted before 18 months caught up with normal-hearing peers fastest, while those implanted after 42 months plateaued far below them. Better scores went with younger implantation, longer implant use, higher pre-implant development scores, and better residual hearing.
• PTCohort2026Quality of Life Assessment Using the Leg Activity Measure in Ambulatory Individuals With Leg Spasticity: Findings From a Longitudinal, Observational Study Evaluating the Effectiveness of AbobotulinumtoxinA in Routine Practice.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationQuality of life scores improved over the first four treatment cycles in 384 adults who could still walk and received repeated abobotulinumtoxinA injections for leg spasticity. Without a control group, the improvement cannot be attributed to the injections.
• PTMeta-Analysis2026Efficacy of Adjunctive Photobiomodulation in Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationAdding laser or infrared light therapy to exercise for kneecap pain did not significantly reduce pain when four small trials were pooled. Two trials alone reported benefit, but they used different devices and doses, and the studies disagreed with each other.
• OTSystematic Review2026Scoping Review of Co-Design in Mental Health Research: Essential Elements and Recommendations.OTJR : occupation, participation and healthReports of co-design in mental health research use the name for quite different things. The essentials that recur: share power, treat lived experience as expertise, protect time for relationships and safety. Funding cycles and academic hierarchies stand in the way.
• OTOther2026Emotional and Behavioural Problems of Children and Youth With Intellectual Disabilities Following the February 6 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake: A Mixed-Methods Study.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDTeachers rated children with intellectual disabilities after the February 2023 Türkiye earthquakes highest for social, attention and thought problems, with boys rated higher than girls for aggression and rule-breaking. Drawings often omitted details, but nothing was measured before the earthquake.
• PTSurvey2026Physiotherapist's Management of Suspected Cauda Equina Syndrome in the United Kingdom: A National Survey.Physiotherapy research international : the journal for researchers and clinicians in physical therapyAltered bladder function was what most made UK physiotherapists suspect cauda equina syndrome, yet few said they would check perianal sensation or anal tone, and only about a third would send a 9-week non-progressive case to A&E.
• PTRCT2026Functional impact of gluteal tendinopathy: A secondary cross-sectional analysis of baseline data from the LEAP randomised clinical trial.Brazilian journal of physical therapyWalking, running, sitting and sleeping were the activities people with gluteal tendinopathy most often said their hip limited, and they rated their ability to do them at 4.6 out of 10 on average. Sex and activity level made no difference to that.
• PTCohort2026Multidimensional Assessment of Fall Risk Using the Timed Up and Go Test and Complementary Measures in a Charcot-Marie-Tooth Type 1A Neuropathy.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationThe Timed Up and Go test did not tell apart people with Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1A who fell from those who did not. Median times stayed near 9 seconds whatever the fall history, so TUG alone cannot screen this group for falls.
• OTQualitative2025Devotion to Family: Coping Strategy to Reduce Burden of Caregiving Stroke Patients.Occupational therapy internationalIndonesian family caregivers of stroke survivors said pride, religious acceptance of fate and family duty kept them going through exhaustion, lost sleep, money worries, anger and fear. None were health workers; they learned caregiving by trial and error.
• OTSurvey2025Factors Influencing Return to Work Among Women With Acquired Brain Injury.Occupational therapy international61.2% of these women with acquired brain injury had returned to work. Each extra year of age made return less likely, while support from managers at work made it about five times more likely. Education, marital status and impairment did not predict return.
• PTOTQualitative2025What stroke survivors say about living with upper limb spasticity and how they manage it.Australian occupational therapy journalStroke survivors with upper limb spasticity described life as continuous adaptation: expecting, learning, practising, evaluating, moving forward. They devised their own strategies, such as a paint roller holder worn at night to keep the hand open, and chose what services and equipment to use.
• OTOther2025Development and initial psychometric properties of the timed upper limb assessment in older adults with Parkinson's.The British journal of occupational therapyA new 10-item timed hand and arm test took people with Parkinson's 22.2 seconds on average, against 16.8 seconds for controls, and times rose with disease stage. Two raters scored the same videos alike, but no one has yet re-tested the same person.
• SLPOther2026The Relation Between Sustained Listening Under Difficult Conditions and Behavioral, Subjective, and Physiological Indicators of Fatigue.Trends in hearingHard speech-in-noise listening for about 75 minutes left young, normal-hearing adults reporting more tiredness and showing a bigger rise in spontaneous pupil wobble, a sleepiness marker, largest in the hardest condition. Responses got faster, not slower.
• PTCohort2026Investigating the clinical pattern of motor relearning in people with multiple sclerosis.Archives of physiotherapyBerg Balance Scale scores in 44 people with multiple sclerosis rose from 42.31 to 48.75 points over about 16 sessions, improving fastest in the first two sessions and then more slowly. Those given balance-specific training learned faster, but the comparison was not randomised.
• OTSLPSystematic Review2026Priorities and Perspectives Regarding Goals and Outcomes of Support for Autistic Children Under 12 Years: A Systematic Review.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceThe goals that autistic adults, families and professionals ranked highest for autistic children were communication, mental well-being, autonomy and community inclusion. Reducing autistic traits, neurotypical social skills training and academic targets ranked lowest. Professionals still leaned towards social skills and spoken language.
• PTCohort2026Perceptions of the Likelihood and Importance of Physical Activity Outcomes at 14 Years Affects Physical Fitness at 17 Years.Child: care, health and developmentTeenagers stayed active mostly for fun, fitness and friends, and those reasons barely shifted between 14 and 17. Boys and girls who expected activity to keep them fit and healthy were the fittest later; girls who feared being mocked were least fit.
• Narrative Review2026Uneven Landscape of Cognitive-Motor Dual-Task Research Across Rehabilitation Fields: A State-of-the-Field and Pattern Analysis.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationThis is a review that counts cognitive-motor dual-task publications across rehabilitation fields, not a study of patients. It reports no patients, no interventions and no outcomes.
• PTCohort2026Early mobilization in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a prospective observational study.Physical therapyMobilisation began early for most: 90 of 102 started physical therapy within two weeks of aneurysm repair, a median of four sessions. Barriers such as drowsiness or unstable blood pressure prevented a third of attempts, and 8.3% ended early for safety concerns, none serious.
• SLPSystematic Review2026Behavioral and electrophysiological findings of central auditory processing in children and adolescents undergoing musical training.CoDASMusic training in children was mostly linked to better sound discrimination, better speech understanding in noise and changes in brain responses to sound. One two-week programme for 11 adolescent cochlear implant users changed nothing. Only seven studies, all observational.
• PTOther2026Physical Strain During Walking in Adults With Cerebral Palsy: A Construct Validity Study.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationWalking at their own preferred pace takes a median 50% of adults' maximum aerobic capacity in this group with cerebral palsy, rising to 78% in those with the most affected walking. The effort is high even when measured fitness looks normal.
• PTOTSurvey2026Rehabilitation Underutilization: Using a Model of Rheumatoid Arthritis to Illustrate Unmet Needs.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translation25% of 309 adults with rheumatoid arthritis had moderate to severe limits in everyday physical function but had never used physiotherapy or occupational therapy for it. Underuse was most common in people on Medicaid or Medicare, without insurance, and on lower incomes.
• PTPilot2026Exploring Current Procedural Terminology Codes for Physical Therapist Evaluations in the United States: Results of a Feasibility Study.Physiotherapy research international : the journal for researchers and clinicians in physical therapyUS outpatient orthopedic physical therapists rating the same 15 patient notes agreed poorly on which complexity code to bill, getting the code right only 49% of the time. Low complexity cases were coded correctly 94% of the time, moderate 32%, high 21%.
• PTMeta-Analysis2026Effects of Resistance Training on Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema: A Meta-Analysis.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationResistance training after breast cancer surgery lowered the share of women who developed arm lymphedema: 12% versus 23% of controls across 38 trials, with fewer cases of moderate-to-severe swelling. Subgroup analyses favoured short, frequent sessions combined with compression or taping.
• Other2026The Development and Validation of Models of Risk for Behaviours That Challenge in Children With Developmental Disabilities: A Novel Machine Learning Approach.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDRModels built from a short questionnaire identified which children with developmental disabilities would show challenging behaviour a year later, including most of those with the most severe behaviour. Telling low severity from high was unreliable, and the authors say clinical use needs more testing.
• PTRCT2026Effects of manual therapy on the infrapatellar fat pad: a randomized controlled trial.Journal of physical therapy scienceOne 3-minute pull on the infrapatellar fat pad did not change how fast it glided in 40 healthy students. The only significant results were between-group differences in the deep layer, which the authors say do not demonstrate clinical efficacy.
• PTOther2026Measurement Properties and Minimal Detectable Change of the 6-Min Step Test for Estimating Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Hospitalized Individuals After Stroke.Physiotherapy research international : the journal for researchers and clinicians in physical therapyThe 6-minute step test gave consistent results when repeated by the same physiotherapist or a different one in 51 people hospitalised early after stroke. A change of 21 steps is needed before a real improvement can be assumed.
• PTCohort2026Unmet Needs for Community-Based Rehabilitation the First 12 Months Postinjury in a Traumatic Brain Injury Population with Moderate-to-Severe Trauma-a Longitudinal Cohort Study.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationAt 12 months, 42.1% of 178 people with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury still reported unmet rehabilitation needs, most often too little therapy intensity and vocational support. More severe head injury, worse function at 6 months and living outside a city predicted this.
• Other2026Nitric oxide inhibition ameliorates cortical proteomic changes in the Cntnap2-/- and Shank3Δ4-22 mouse models of autism spectrum disorder.Molecular autismIn two different autism mouse models, ten days of the nNOS inhibitor 7-NI left hundreds of altered cortical proteins no longer different from wild type, including ones encoded by high-risk autism genes. This is mouse brain tissue, not a human treatment.
• OTQualitative2026Qualitative Analysis of User Experiences of a mHealth Self-Care Intervention for Care Partners of Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationIn interviews, care partners of people with traumatic brain injury said the app's self-care prompts raised their awareness but often arrived at times they could not act, and its dashboard scores confused them. Technical glitches lost data and notifications.
• SLPPilot2026Respiratory-Swallow Training and Variable Practice in Parkinson's Disease: A Clinical Trial Pilot Study.Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica : official organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP)Four weekly sessions teaching people with Parkinson's to breathe out before and after swallowing raised the proportion of swallows with that pattern from 38.4% to 71.7%, with less residue and less material entering the airway. There was no untreated control group.
• PTSLPCohort2026Relationship between vestibular alterations and cognitive performance in adults and older adults.CoDASPeople with abnormal vestibular test results scored worse on attention, perception, arithmetic and verbal memory. Everyone was tested once, so the study cannot show whether the vestibular problem or the cognitive problem came first, and older age was itself linked to poorer memory.
• PTCohort2026Tracking Sarcopenia and Physical Activities Among Korean Adults Aged 50 Years and Older During COVID-19 Pandemic.Physiotherapy research international : the journal for researchers and clinicians in physical therapyIn 50 Korean adults aged 50 and over, sarcopenia rose from 18% to 28% and grip strength fell from 24.73 to 22.77 kg between 2019 and 2021. High-intensity work and exercise dropped sharply while sitting time rose.
• OTOther2025Designing an instrument for police officers' life balance and sustainable lifestyle.The British journal of occupational therapyTherapists developing a lifestyle questionnaire for Swedish police officers found their draft domains did not hold together: raters disagreed on what mattered most, and the original five domains had to be split and expanded to nine.
• OTSurvey2025The work of forensic occupational therapists in solitary confinement: An international survey.Australian occupational therapy journalManaging risk decided whether a session happened, whether it took place inside or outside the cell, how many staff were needed, and what objects could be used. Therapists said watching patients' distress was their main stress, and debriefing with colleagues was how most coped.
• OTQualitative2025Menstruation among autistic adults: An occupational perspective.The British journal of occupational therapySix autistic adults described periods disrupting self-care, work and leisure through sensory overload, unpredictable cycles and anxiety about bathroom access and leaking. None had been offered professional support for the autism-specific side of managing menstruation.
• OTQualitative2025'Ask someone, what is their Dreaming?': Exploring occupational performance coaching with service providers supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families.Australian occupational therapy journalStaff said the word 'goal' in occupational performance coaching did not fit the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families they work with. They suggested framing plans around a family's Dreaming instead, which is ongoing, not something that ends. Building relationships over time came first.
• OTQualitative2025Empowering Advocacy: A Theatre Pedagogy Training With Occupational Therapists.Occupational therapy internationalParticipants said the theatre-based programme shifted how they saw their own practice: noticing how clinical language emphasises weaknesses, asking whose problem a child's behaviour is, and letting the person lead instead of assuming they know. Most had no earlier advocacy training.
• OTOther2026Variability of the Behavioral Assessment Screening Tool for Mobile Health Using Ecological Momentary Assessment in Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationPrompting adults with chronic TBI daily, every other day or at random made no difference to how much their symptoms swung. Day to day, fatigue varied most and substance misuse least, and people fell into three groups by how stable their reports were.
• OTQualitative2026Facilitators and Barriers to Implementing French-Canadian Lifestyle Redesign® in Occupational Therapy Practice.Canadian journal of occupational therapy. Revue canadienne d'ergotherapieQuebec therapists, students, decision makers and community partners saw the French Lifestyle Redesign program as evidence-based and worth running, but named its length, cost, thin staffing and public-sector mandates as the obstacles. Public settings were judged the hardest to start in.
• SLPMeta-Analysis2026Autistic Traits and Camouflaging: A Meta-Analysis.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceThe more autistic traits someone reports, the more they report camouflaging to fit in. That link was moderate, held across ages and genders, and was even stronger in people without a diagnosis. Clinicians who rely on what they observe may miss it.
• PTMeta-Analysis2026Comparative Clinical Effectiveness of Intra-Articular Leukocyte-Rich Platelet-Rich Plasma and Hyaluronic Acid in Treating Knee Osteoarthritis Pain: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationLeukocyte-rich PRP injections eased knee osteoarthritis pain better than hyaluronic acid at 3 months, by under a quarter of a point on a 0-to-10 scale. The edge was gone by 6 and 12 months. PRP scored better on stiffness and physical function at 12 months.
• PTSLPOther2026Clinical investigation protocol for tinnitus (CIP-t): development and validation of an instrument.CoDASHearing loss (70 of 83) and emotional factors (71) were the commonest causes this new tinnitus protocol flagged. Applying it took about 90 minutes; somatosensory and metabolic causes were less frequent. It maps likely causes; it does not test whether treatment works.
• PTOTPilot2026Changes in body composition and safety of exercise for individuals with severe cerebral palsy: single-group pre-post observational study.Journal of physical therapy sciencePassive exercise for three months caused no harm in 11 adults with GMFCS level V cerebral palsy, but did not measurably change muscle mass or swelling. Trunk and right leg fluid had already risen by the three-month mark.