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This month, PTJ honors Dr Jacquelin Perry for her pioneering work in gait analysis and gait rehabilitation with a special issue—“Stepping Forward With Gait Rehabilitation.” The 12 articles in the special issue highlight new advances and future directions in gait assessment and rehabilitation and were written by some of the foremost researchers in the field.
Editorials by Editor-in-Chief, Rebecca Craik, and Guest Editors, Janice Eng and Sara Mulroy, introduce the special issue. The cover of this month’s issue as well as the upcoming March issue features the art of patients-artists from Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, where Dr Perry served as Chief of the Pathokinesiology Service for 30 years. You can view a video featuring more art from Rancho Los Amigos here.
PTJ’s new quarterly series—“Health Policy in Perspective”—provides commentary on the role of physical therapists in the creation and implementation of health policy. See Editor-in-Chief Rebecca Craik’s editorial introducing the series.
The latest article in this series appears in the March 2010 issue:
“Comparative Effectiveness Research: Opportunities and Challenges for Physical Therapy” by Janet K. Freburger and Timothy S. Carey
Why Do Some Older Adults Have Difficulty With Stooping, Crouching, or Kneeling?
This podcast discusses the implications of “Decreased Muscle Strength Relates to Self-Reported Stooping, Crouching, or Kneeling Difficulty in Older Adults,” by Manuel E. Hernandez, Allon Goldberg, and Neil B. Alexander (January 2010).
Why Do Some Older Adults Have Difficulty With Stooping, Crouching, or Kneeling?—Participants: Dale Avers, PT, PhD, and Manuel Hernandez. Moderator: Kathleen Kline Mangione, PT, PhD, GCS, PTJ Editorial Board Member.
Making Prognostic Judgments of the Extent of Upper-Extremity Recovery Following Stroke
This podcast discusses the implications of “A Functional Threshold for Long-Term Use of Hand and Arm Function Can Be Determined: Predictions From a Computational Model and Supporting Data From the Extremity Constraint-Induced Therapy Evaluation (EXCITE) Trial,” by Nicolas Schweighofer, Cheol E. Han, Steven L. Wolf, Michael A. Arbib, and Carolee J. Winstein (December 2009).
Making Prognostic Judgments of the Extent of Upper-Extremity Recovery Following Stroke—Participants: Gert Kwakkel, PhD, Nicolas Schweighofer, PhD, and Carolee Winstein, PT, PhD, FAPTA. Moderator: Daniel Riddle, PT, PhD, FAPTA, PTJ Deputy Editor in Chief.
Feet Reaching in Infants Born Preterm
This podcast discusses the implications of “Exploring Objects With Feet Advances Movement in Infants Born Preterm: A Randomized Controlled Trial,” by Jill C. Heathcock and James C. (Cole) Galloway (October 2009).
Feet Reaching in Infants Born Preterm—Participants: Doreen Bartlett, PT, PhD; James Cole Galloway, PT, PhD; and Jill C. Heathcock, PT, PhD. Moderator: Rebecca L. Craik, PT, PhD, FAPTA, PTJ Editor in Chief.
Rehabilitation for Military Service Members Returning From Iraq and Afghanistan
This two-part podcast was inspired by the Perspective article, “Traumatic Brain Injury and Vestibular Pathology as a Comorbidity After Blast Exposure,” by CPT Matthew Scherer and Dr Michael Schubert (September 2009).
Part 1: Impact of War Injuries on Rehabilitation Research—Participants: Benjamin Darter, PT, PhD; LTC Rachel Evans, PT, PhD, USA; COL(R) Rebecca Hooper, PT, PhD, USA. Moderator: Maj John Childs, PT, PhD, USAF, BSC, PTJ Editorial Board member.
Part 2: Impact of War Injuries on Clinical Practice—Participants: MAJ Stuart Campbell, PT, USA; John Fergason; CPT Mark Lester, PT, USA; CAPT Daniel Watson, PT, USAF. Guest Moderator: Maj Nicole Raney, USAF, PT.
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“Small Smile” provided by the authors of “Comprehensive Facial Rehabilitation Improves Function in People With Facial Paralysis: A 5-Year Experience at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary” (Lindsay RW, Robinson M, and Hadlock TA).
Video of “Meaning of Movement: Works by Artists of Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center,” which highlights the artwork of patients-artists from Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, where Dr Jacquelin Perry served as Chief of the Pathokinesiology Service for 30 years. The artists depict how their ability to move has changed because of injury or disease and their hopes for the future as they recover or learn different ways of moving.
A short clip of the Sit-to-Stand Movement provided by the authors of “Sit-to-Stand Movement as a Performance-Based Measure for Patients With Total Knee Arthroplasty” (Boonstra MC, Schwering PJA, De Waal Malefijt MC, Verdonschot N). (QuickTime only)
A demonstration video of a standardized procedure for conducting the 10-Meter Walk Test provided by the authors of “Meaningful Gait Speed Improvement During the First 60 Days Poststroke: Minimal Clinically Important Difference” (Tilson JK, Sullivan KJ, Cen ST, et al; Locomotor Experience Applied Post Stroke (LEAPS) Investigative Team). (QuickTime only)
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PTJ’s new series “<LEAP> Linking Evidence And Practice” offers real-life clinical scenarios, provides relevant information from Cochrane systematic reviews and other sources, and discusses the use of this evidence in practice. See the editorial by PTJ Editorial Board members Diane Jette, PT, DSc, and Rachelle Buchbinder, MBBS(Hons), MSc, PhD, FRACP, which introduces the series.
The first article in this series was published in the January 2010 issue:
“Pulmonary Rehabilitation Following Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease” by Diane U. Jette, Mary C. Bourgeois, and Rachelle Buchbinder
PTJ's Collections feature is a topic-specific archive of articles published since January 1991. Eventually, the Collections will contain articles from PTJ's entire online archive starting with January 1980.
The categories reflect specific areas of physical therapist practice, common conditions or diagnoses, and the terminology found in APTA's Guide to Physical Therapist Practice.
Find the entire list of topics at: http://www.ptjournal.org/collections/
To get collections related to the article you're reading, just click on the links in the Content Box on the right-hand side of each full-text article.
Starting with the April 2009 issue, click on links in the "Available With This Article" box on the second page of the PDF to download videos; discussion podcasts; The Bottom Line clinical summaries; online-only tables, figures, or appendixes; and more!
If you find a PTJ article that you like, PTJ makes it easy for you to bookmark the article and share it with your colleagues. Links to the following social bookmarking sites can be found at the bottom of each article as well as in the Content Box : CiteULike, Complore, Connotea, Del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, and Technorati.
For more information on social bookmarking, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking
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