Regional vs global physical therapy interventions to treat chronic pain in survivors of trauma: a randomized controlled trial.

Background: A history of traumatic life events is associated with chronic pain in later life. Physical therapists utilize a variety of methods to treat pain, however, they have struggled to find effective interventions to improve patient outcomes.

Objective: To compare impairment-based, regional (REGION-PT) physical therapy (PT) to a global (GLOBAL-PT) model consisting of pain neuroscience education, graded motor imagery, and exercise for adults with chronic pain and history of trauma.

Did Clarification of Medicare Guidelines Change Outpatient Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Usage? A Retrospective Analysis.

Objective: To determine if there was a change in the number of outpatient physical therapy (PT) and occupational therapy (OT) visits for Medicare beneficiaries, and in the number of beneficiaries receiving extended courses of >12 therapy visits, after the Jimmo vs Sebelius settlement.

Design: Cross-sectional analysis of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) comparing calendar years 2011-2012 to 2014-2015.

Setting: Community in-home survey.

Ultrasound and Clinical Measures for Lymphedema.

Background: Treatment for breast cancer has increased patient survivorship exponentially over the past few decades. With increased survivorship, more women are living with the longstanding effects of breast cancer treatment, such as lymphedema. Patients, health care providers, and payers depend on practical and efficient clinical measures to accurately diagnose and monitor disease progression or regression.

Reliability of novice raters in using the movement system impairment approach to classify people with low back pain.

Observational cross sectional study. To examine the inter-rater reliability of novice raters in using the Movement System Impairment (MSI) approach system and to explore the patterns of disagreement in classification errors. The inter-rater reliability of individual tests items used in the MSI approach is moderate to good; however, the reliability of the classification algorithm has been tested only preliminarily.

Effects of resistance training on physical function in older disabled women with coronary heart disease.

We studied whether disabled older women with coronary heart disease can perform resistance training at an intensity sufficient to improve measured and self-reported physical function [n = 30, 70.6 +/- 4.5 (SD) yr].

Determinants of disability in older coronary patients.

Background: Patient-reported physical function is a major component of disability determinations and an important contributor to health-related quality of life. Prior studies of coronary disability have shown a surprisingly poor correlation between real-life activity profile and exercise capacity measured on the treadmill. The goal of the current investigation was to evaluate the relative importance of medical factors, sex, fitness-related measures, and psychologic factors as determinants of patient-reported physical function score in older persons with established coronary heart disease (CHD).