🧠 🏥 This study fills an important gap in the evidence on early mobilization for patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage in the #ICU after aneurysm repair:
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🏠🤝Shared decision-making in #HomeCare physical therapy is complex. This article provides strategies for improving shared decision-making based on a mixed methods study of surveys and interviews representing over 200 home care therapists:
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Our full March issue is now available, with an editorial that's sure to hit a home run with researchers and clinicians alike ⚾
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📝 An important topic for all researchers and clinicians: this new perspective piece tackles the reporting gap around the intervention fidelity process in #rehabilitation #research.
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🖋️ Our session from #APTACSM on *Demystifying Peer Review* is available #OnDemand from @aptaofficial.bsky.social through May 6th - here's a video sneak peek from our student lead on what you can expect from the session when you tune in!
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💊 The objective of this new #qualitative study was to explore primary care providers' attitudes regarding physical therapists’ role in identifying and mitigating #opioid risk and opioid misuse.
Read more:
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🏥 This new scoping review maps contemporary evidence about organizational #barriers and #enablers of #mobility in hospital units, the participants reporting these barriers and enablers, and how mobility was defined:
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💡 This functional classification framework may help clinicians identify key biomechanical targets and support the design of individualized rehabilitation strategies after stroke
🧠 🚶♀️➡️ Using leg extension angle and gastrocnemius activity, this study classifed hemiparetic gait into 4 patterns, and these patterns were associated with differences in walking ability.
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🫶 George and Monroe discuss what empathy looks like during physical therapy visits, why there might be variability in empathetic communication, and why empathy’s influence might take time to appear in patient encounters.
👂The study found that consistently responding to patients’ emotional cues was associated with lower pain intensity: academic.oup.com/ptj/article/...
🎙️ In our February episode of the PTJ Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Steven George, PT, PhD, FAPTA, talks with Katrina Monroe, PT, PhD, about her recently published study, which tracked physical therapist-patient conversations over a six-week care period.
🤔 Did you know you can subscribe to @aptaofficial.bsky.social podcasts on your favorite streaming service? You'll never miss another #PTJournal author interview again!
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This trial found that AR is feasible and offers a safe and scalable way for individuals to train independently, potentially improving accessibility of care and broadening its use to physical activity promotion.
🧠 Implementing augmented reality (AR) rehabilitation technologies in real-world clinical practice for individuals with #Parkinson Disease 🎮
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🤝 Physical therapy's role in the #loneliness epidemic is the topic of this new #POV in #PTJournal.
Authors argue that addressing loneliness within physical therapy is not an expansion beyond scope but a vital deepening of the profession’s commitment to holistic, person-centered care.
📱Changes in fear-avoidance, depression, and anxiety mediate pain recovery after fully-remote digital rehabilitation for chronic spinal pain.
Findings underscore the importance of addressing psychological factors in digital care.
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🗺️ This is an excellent road map for understanding what program factors can assist with adoption and sustainable integration of high-intensity rehabilitation into clinical practice in SNFs.
🧰 Now, this article provides a comprehensive mixed-methods evaluation of a SNF high-intensity rehabilitation program across implementation, adoption, process, and clinician knowledge and self-efficacy outcomes.
🔥 High-intensity rehabilitation in #SkilledNursingFacilities is feasible and effective.
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🏥 🧠 In this study of over 1500 patients hospitalized after #stroke, early physical therapist treatment and frequent occupational therapy sessions were associated with reduced 30-day #readmission risk for patients discharged home.
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🦵 For patients receiving treatment over 6 months after #TotalKnee replacement, this study identified factors associated with functional recovery:
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Proposed solutions from this study set the stage for future implementation research so that depression screening becomes equivalent to red flag screening. 🚨
Capacity and cultural challenges contribute to indirect #depression screening practices for people with #LowBackPain in musculoskeletal triage.
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❓ We asked PT researchers at #APTACSM: What is the single most question we need to answer in the next decade to move our profession forward?
Here's what they had to say:
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🤝 Meet members of our #PTJournal editorial team!
This week at #APTACSM our student lead Priscilla Meza from @uwrehabmed.bsky.social interviewed researchers about their advice for students and their hopes for the future of #PTresearch.
Stay tuned to hear more and thanks to our interviewees!
🎙️ Our Associate Editors recorded a recent episode of #PTPintcast
to discuss our upcoming #APTACSM session "Behind the Red Ink: Demystifying Peer Review and Empowering Emerging Scholars" 🖋️
Check out the episode and join us on Friday at 10:30 AM!
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🔜 We're just a week out from #APTACSM - check out our list of #PTResearch presentations across a diverse set of topics from our editorial team:
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🗣️ #Empathy Matters: this study found that more frequent empathic communication from #PhysicalTherapists is associated with lower patient-reported pain intensity and interference, along with larger and more rapid decreases in pain intensity over time: academic.oup.com/ptj/article/...
