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Two upper-limb studies in people with hypermobility: a secondary analysis relating changes in shoulder strength to shoulder symptoms after 16 weeks of high-load or low-load exercise, and a randomized clinical trial comparing wrist stabilizing exercise with a hand orthosis.
Two 2025 papers examined the two immobilization decisions that come up most often in wrist and hand care: whether a cast is needed while a scaphoid fracture is only suspected, and whether the thumb needs to be included once a…
Two papers, one question. A pooled analysis of individual patient data and a multicenter randomized trial report how the three common procedures compare for correction, complications, recurrence and progression — and what each finding means for the clinician who sees…
After a first anterior dislocation, how do rehabilitation and early arthroscopic stabilization compare for recurrence and return to sport — and how do pediatric specialists say adolescent instability should be evaluated and managed?
Two papers, one clinical question: which strategies after a wrist fracture were studied for preventing CRPS, and what did adding mirror therapy to routine rehabilitation change once post-traumatic CRPS type 1 had already developed.
Two 2025 randomized trials examined the shoulder after breast cancer treatment from opposite ends of the timeline. One tested a hands-on physiotherapy protocol for painful cording in the months after surgery. The other compared an individualized hospital pathway with a…
For people with upper-limb musculoskeletal conditions and fractures, how does rehabilitation delivered by telehealth compare with in-person care for function, pain and strength? Two recent systematic reviews are reported side by side, including the point on which they do not…
For post-traumatic elbow stiffness, what do stretching and splinting approaches achieve, and can an app-guided home program after arthroscopic release match supervised physical therapy? Two papers, reported plainly.
Two recent systematic reviews with network meta-analysis asked the same question about the same shoulder condition and came back with different treatment rankings. This course reports what each one found, attributes every finding to the review that reported it, and…
For adults with primary frozen shoulder, how is the condition diagnosed and staged, and which non-surgical treatments — exercise, manual therapy and physical modalities — were reported to improve pain, motion and function? This course reports what a rehabilitation medicine…
Two JOSPT Open surveys report how diagnostic and procedural imaging is handled during terminal clinical education experiences, and how physical therapists with and without fellowship or board certification reasoned through cervical spine cases under uncertainty.
Two papers from JOSPT Open, read side by side: what beliefs about control, fear-avoidance and catastrophizing looked like in people with lateral elbow tendinopathy, and what a clinical commentary recommends for screening and addressing sleep problems in musculoskeletal pain.
Six modules on the Alabama Physical Therapy Practice Act and the Board’s rules in Chapter 700-X: licensure and renewal, direct access, direction and supervision, conduct and discipline, and the licensure compact. Every statement carries its citation.
Two JOSPT Open papers on recognizing psychological distress in joint pain: a physical therapy program’s proposal for psychological phenotyping in osteoarthritis care, and a cross-sectional study of pain self-efficacy, kinesiophobia, activity, and patient-reported hip function.
Two JOSPT Open papers, read side by side, on whether low-load blood flow restriction work can stand in for heavy-load strengthening in the first weeks after surgery — the cuff pressures and loads actually used, what the randomized trial measured…
Two 2026 JOSPT Open papers examine what patients believe is happening when hands are placed on them, what they most want improved, and how those priorities relate to expectations, the therapeutic alliance and short-term outcomes.
Two JOSPT Open papers, read side by side: a large occupational health cohort on how soon physical therapy started, and a rural pilot on delivering part of the plan of care by video. What each design can support, and what…
Two JOSPT Open papers report what people with hip osteoarthritis said about a telehealth exercise and weight-loss program, and what patients and clinicians in Denmark said they wanted once in-person rehabilitation ended. Both describe views and experiences, not effectiveness.
Two JOSPT Open papers, read side by side to answer one question: how should patellofemoral pain and patellofemoral joint osteoarthritis be measured and monitored over time? A scoping review of 969 studies maps which health domains researchers actually measure; a…
Two companion papers from one sports medicine hospital describe phase-based, criteria-driven rehabilitation pathways for hamstring and rectus femoris injuries, and report how practitioners working in elite sport rated them. This course reports what each pathway contains, how it was built…