MuscleMap: An Open-Source, Community-Supported Consortium for Whole-Body Quantitative MRI of Muscle.

Disorders affecting the neurological and musculoskeletal systems represent international health priorities. A significant impediment to progress in trials of new therapies is the absence of responsive, objective, and valid outcome measures sensitive to early disease changes. A key finding in individuals with neuromuscular and musculoskeletal disorders is the compositional changes to muscles, evinced by the expression of fatty infiltrates.

Guiding Evidence-Based Classification in Para Sporting Populations: A Systematic Review of Impairment Measures and Activity Limitations.

Background: As the focus of classification shifts towards an evidence-based approach, it is crucial to establish a robust system that relies on valid and reliable measures of impairment to ensure legitimate and competitive opportunities for all Para athletes. However, the lack of methods that possess the necessary measurement properties for assessing impairments in Para sporting populations presents significant challenges to developing an evidence-based classification system.

Objective: This review aimed to identify and evaluate measures of impairment and activity limitation measures that have been used to assess eligible impairments in Para sport athletes for potential use in evidence-based classification.

Long-term outcomes in children with riboflavin transporter deficiency and surveillance recommendations.

The aim of this longitudinal case series was to describe long-term functional outcome in a group of individuals with riboflavin transporter deficiency (RTD) treated with high-dose oral riboflavin. Data were collected between 2012 to 2022. Eleven individuals with RTD were assessed at 12-month intervals for monitoring of disease progression.

The Effects of Sport Participation for Adults With Physical or Intellectual Disability: A Scoping Review.

Background: Adults with physical or intellectual disability are less active than those without disability.

Objective: To review literature regarding sport participation in adults with physical or intellectual disability. Specifically, to examine characteristics of available studies including participants, interventions, outcomes, and impact.

Informing knowledge translation for selective dorsal rhizotomy: A survey of Australian clinicians and people with lived experience of cerebral palsy.

Aim: Selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) is a neurosurgical intervention used to reduce spasticity in children with cerebral palsy (CP). There is minimal relevant, evidence-based information available for Australian families and clinicians. This study aims to investigate the knowledge of people with lived experience and clinicians regarding SDR, including how they currently access information and what information they seek.

Development of a patient decision aid for children and adolescents following anterior cruciate ligament rupture: an international mixed-methods study.

Aim: To develop and user test an evidence-based patient decision aid for children and adolescents who are considering anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction.

Design: Mixed-methods study describing the development of a patient decision aid.

Setting: A draft decision aid was developed by a multidisciplinary steering group (including various types of health professionals and researchers, and consumers) informed by the best available evidence and existing patient decision aids.

Variability between Different Hand-Held Dynamometers for Measuring Muscle Strength.

Muscle strength is routinely measured in patients with neuromuscular disorders by hand-held dynamometry incorporating a wireless load cell to evaluate disease severity and therapeutic efficacy, with magnitude of effect often based on normative reference values. While several hand-held dynamometers exist, their interchangeability is unknown which limits the utility of normative data. We investigated the variability between six commercially available dynamometers for measuring the isometric muscle strength of four muscle groups in thirty healthy individuals.

The Psychological Impacts of Taking Physiotherapy Teaching Online in 2020: What Did We Learn?

Introduction: The rapid shift to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic presented challenges for physical therapy (PT) education worldwide. This article aims to explore the factors influencing the well-being of the PT faculty and department chairs involved in delivering PT programs during the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Review Of Literature: The literature has focused on the pedagogical impacts of the rapid shift to online learning.

Development of a functional outcome measure for riboflavin transporter deficiency.

Background And Aims: Riboflavin transporter deficiency (RTD) is a progressive inherited neuropathy of childhood onset, characterised clinically by pontobulbar palsy, sensory ataxia, sensorineural deafness, muscle weakness, optic atrophy and respiratory failure. A robust and responsive functional outcome measure is essential for future clinical trials of disease-modifying therapies including genetic therapies. The Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease Pediatric Scale (CMTPedS) is a well-validated outcome measure for CMT and related neuropathies, and might have utility for measuring disease progression in individuals with RTD.

The association between musculoskeletal pain during pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analyses.

Objective: To systematically investigate the association between musculoskeletal pain during pregnancy and birth outcomes including caesarean section, newborn birthweight, newborn birth length, and gestational age at birth.

Methods: Medline, Embase, Web of Science, Cinahl and Scopus were systematically searched to identify eligible studies. Odds ratios, mean differences, and confidence intervals were used to describe results.

Multicenter Validation of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth Functional Outcome Measure.

Background And Objectives: Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A (CMT1A), caused by a duplication of , is the most common hereditary peripheral neuropathy. For participants with CMT1A, few clinical trials have been performed; however, multiple therapies have reached an advanced stage of preclinical development. In preparation for imminent clinical trials in participants with CMT1A, we have produced a Clinical Outcome Assessment (COA), known as the CMT-Functional Outcome Measure (CMT-FOM), in accordance with the FDA Roadmap to Patient-Focused Outcome Measurement to capture the key clinical end point of function.

Effects of sport or physical recreation for adults with physical or intellectual disabilities: a systematic review with meta-analysis.

Objectives: To evaluate the effects of sport or physical recreation on participation, mobility and quality of life for adults living with disabilities.

Design: Systematic review with meta-analysis.

Data Sources: Six databases searched from inception to May 2022.

Evaluating the Use of PROMs in Paediatric Orthopaedic Registries.

Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) provide structured information on the patient's health experience and facilitate shared clinical decision-making. Registries that collect PROMs generate essential information about the clinical course and efficacy of interventions. Whilst PROMs are increasingly being used in adult orthopaedic registries, their use in paediatric orthopaedic registries is not well known.

Insurance cost and injury characteristics of anterior cruciate ligament injuries in sub-elite football: A population analysis involving 3 years of Australian insurance data.

Objectives: To investigate the injury characteristics and insurance cost of anterior cruciate ligament injuries in sub-elite football players in New South Wales, Australia.

Design: Descriptive epidemiological study.

Methods: Three years of insurance records (2018-2020) was used to describe anterior cruciate ligament injury costs and characteristics.

Developing a patient decision aid for Achilles tendon rupture management: a mixed-methods study.

Objective: To develop and user-test a patient decision aid portraying the benefits and harms of non-surgical management and surgery for Achilles tendon ruptures.

Design: Mixed methods.

Setting: A draft decision aid was developed using guidance from a multidisciplinary steering group and existing patient decision aids.

Heading in Football: insights from stakeholders in amateur football.

Despite emerging research questioning the long-term effect of purposeful heading on players' brain health, heading-related perspectives and behaviours of stakeholders in amateur football in Australia (a country without heading guidelines) remain unknown. This study aimed to explore the current heading-related perspectives and behaviours of football stakeholders. In total, 290 players (aged over 11 years), 54 coaches, 34 non-coaching staff and 14 medical staff completed the survey.

Do Cutting Kinematics Change as Boys Mature? A Longitudinal Cohort Study of High-School Athletes.

Objective: Examine longitudinal changes in trunk, hip, and knee kinematics in maturing boys during an unanticipated cutting task.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Setting: Biomechanical laboratory.

'Benched' the effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on injury incidence in sub-elite football in Australia: a retrospective population study using injury insurance records.

Objectives: The primary aim of this study was to compare injury rates pre- and post-COVID-19 lockdown in sub-elite football (soccer) players by analysing the full season and the first month of each season between 2018 and 2020. Secondary aims were to describe the incidence, location and type of injuries and to compare injuries by age group and sex.

Design: Descriptive epidemiological study.