{"title":"Critically appraised paper: A combined digital technology program was not superior to usual care on knee pain following total knee replacement [synopsis]","authors":"Nina Østerås","doi":"10.1016/j.jphys.2024.04.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jphys.2024.04.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49153,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physiotherapy","volume":"70 3","pages":"Page 234"},"PeriodicalIF":9.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1836955324000390/pdfft?md5=1e4d06f6dc9be196b2b40931dbf7d65e&pid=1-s2.0-S1836955324000390-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141318679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Call for applications for membership of the Editorial Board","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jphys.2024.05.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jphys.2024.05.011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49153,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physiotherapy","volume":"70 3","pages":"Page 168"},"PeriodicalIF":9.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S183695532400050X/pdfft?md5=cbf5ebabcb0145fcb21b2018269a7bef&pid=1-s2.0-S183695532400050X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141416018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lucas R Nascimento , Augusto Boening , Rafaela JS Rocha , Willian A do Carmo , Louise Ada
{"title":"Walking training with auditory cueing improves walking speed more than walking training alone in ambulatory people with Parkinson’s disease: a systematic review","authors":"Lucas R Nascimento , Augusto Boening , Rafaela JS Rocha , Willian A do Carmo , Louise Ada","doi":"10.1016/j.jphys.2024.06.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jphys.2024.06.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Questions</h3><p>In people with Parkinson’s disease, what is the effect of adding external cueing (ie, visual, auditory or somatosensorial cueing) to walking training compared with walking training alone in terms of walking, mobility, balance, fear of falling and freezing? Are any benefits carried over to participation or maintained beyond the intervention period?</p></div><div><h3>Design</h3><p>Systematic review of randomised trials with meta-analysis.</p></div><div><h3>Participants</h3><p>Ambulatory adults with Parkinson’s disease.</p></div><div><h3>Intervention</h3><p>Walking training with external cueing compared with walking training without external cueing.</p></div><div><h3>Outcome measures</h3><p>Walking (ie, speed, stride length and cadence), mobility, balance, fear of falling, freezing and participation.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Ten trials involving a total of 309 participants were included. The mean PEDro score of the included trials was 5 (range 4 to 8). Walking training with auditory cueing improved walking speed by 0.09 m/s (95% CI 0.02 to 0.15) more than walking training alone. Although the best estimate was that auditory cueing may also improve stride length by 5 cm, this estimate was imprecise (95% CI –2 to 11). The addition of visual cueing to walking training did not improve walking speed or stride length. Results regarding cadence, mobility, balance, fear of falling, and freezing and maintenance of benefits beyond the intervention period remain uncertain.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>This systematic review provided low-quality evidence that walking training with auditory cueing is more effective than walking training alone for improving walking speed in Parkinson’s disease. Cueing is an inexpensive and easy to implement intervention, so the mean estimate might be considered clinically worthwhile, although the confidence interval spans clinically trivial and worthwhile effects.</p></div><div><h3>Registration</h3><p>PROSPERO CRD42021255065.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49153,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physiotherapy","volume":"70 3","pages":"Pages 208-215"},"PeriodicalIF":9.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1836955324000596/pdfft?md5=e8e37f2c66e4f0a5a5f8b3291c8498c4&pid=1-s2.0-S1836955324000596-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141428078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Expressions of interest for the Journal of Physiotherapy Editorial Fellowship","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jphys.2024.05.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jphys.2024.05.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49153,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physiotherapy","volume":"70 3","pages":"Page 167"},"PeriodicalIF":9.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1836955324000493/pdfft?md5=fe0e8bf86b8fb74e645fe9f95905e415&pid=1-s2.0-S1836955324000493-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141402165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mulligan manual therapy added to exercise improves headache frequency, intensity and disability more than exercise alone in people with cervicogenic headache: a randomised trial","authors":"Kiran Satpute , Nilima Bedekar , Toby Hall","doi":"10.1016/j.jphys.2024.06.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jphys.2024.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Question</h3><p>What is the effect of a 4-week regimen of Mulligan manual therapy (MMT) plus exercise compared with exercise alone for managing cervicogenic headache? Is MMT plus exercise more effective than sham MMT plus exercise? Are any benefits maintained at 26 weeks of follow-up?</p></div><div><h3>Design</h3><p>A three-armed, parallel-group, randomised clinical trial with concealed allocation, blinded assessment of some outcomes and intention-to-treat analysis.</p></div><div><h3>Participants</h3><p>Ninety-nine people with cervicogenic headache as per International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD-3).</p></div><div><h3>Interventions</h3><p>Participants were randomly allocated to 4 weeks of: MMT with exercise, sham MMT with exercise or exercise alone.</p></div><div><h3>Outcome measures</h3><p>The primary outcome was headache frequency. Secondary outcomes were headache intensity, headache duration, medication intake, headache-related disability, upper cervical rotation range of motion, pressure pain thresholds and patient satisfaction. Outcome measures were collected at baseline and at 4, 13 and 26 weeks.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>MMT plus exercise reduced headache frequency more than exercise alone immediately after the intervention (MD between groups in change from baseline: 2 days/month, 95% CI 2 to 3) and this effect was still evident at 26 weeks (MD 4 days, 95% CI 3 to 4). There were also benefits across all time points in several secondary outcomes: headache intensity, headache duration, headache-related disability, upper cervical rotation and patient satisfaction. Pressure pain thresholds showed benefits at all time points at the zygapophyseal joint and suboccipital areas but not at the upper trapezius. The outcomes in the sham MMT with exercise group were very similar to those of the exercise alone group.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>In people with cervicogenic headache, adding MMT to exercise improved: headache frequency, intensity and duration; headache-related disability; upper cervical rotation; and patient satisfaction. These benefits were not due to placebo effects.</p></div><div><h3>Trial registration</h3><p>CTRI/2019/06/019506.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49153,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physiotherapy","volume":"70 3","pages":"Pages 224-233"},"PeriodicalIF":9.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1836955324000572/pdfft?md5=d10478a29e8629b1154482ab0cedec3d&pid=1-s2.0-S1836955324000572-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141433206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Physiotherapy management of major abdominal surgery","authors":"Ianthe Boden","doi":"10.1016/j.jphys.2024.06.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jphys.2024.06.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49153,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physiotherapy","volume":"70 3","pages":"Pages 170-180"},"PeriodicalIF":9.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1836955324000602/pdfft?md5=1cf95b73d6df84c59f6b468d4ce9d4ba&pid=1-s2.0-S1836955324000602-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141433207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aims and Scope/Editorial Board","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S1836-9553(24)00067-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S1836-9553(24)00067-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49153,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physiotherapy","volume":"70 3","pages":"Page ii"},"PeriodicalIF":9.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1836955324000675/pdfft?md5=01682d5ce38520cf28be7f830faef59a&pid=1-s2.0-S1836955324000675-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141542431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}