Applied Evidence

Stay current in your specialty in ten minutes a week.

Tell us what you treat. Each week we summarise the new evidence in those areas in plain language, written for your discipline — what they did, what they found, and what it does not show.

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Blood-Flow-Restriction Training vs. Heavy Resistance Exercise After ACL Reconstruction
J Orthop Sports Phys Ther · 2024 · Hansen K, Okafor T, Ruiz M, et al.
Low-load BFR training matched heavy resistance for quadriceps strength at 12 weeks with less anterior knee pain.
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PTMeta-Analysis
Multifactorial Fall Prevention in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
J Geriatr Phys Ther · 2022 · Baptiste L, Sorensen K, Ahmed W
Multifactorial programs with a supervised balance component cut fall rate by about a fifth.
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clinical papers indexed across PubMed, Europe PMC, OpenAlex and Crossref
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disciplines, each with its own sub-specialty taxonomy and clinical read
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THE PROBLEM

You don't have time to sift through millions of papers.

Between patients you get a few spare minutes, an abstract behind a paywall, and no way to tell whether the trial was on your caseload. So the literature stays a stack of things you meant to read, and practice drifts toward what you were taught rather than what has since been shown.

Know in one line whether a paper is worth reading.

Every result leads with the finding, the study type and the sample — enough to tell a meta-analysis on your caseload from a case report on somebody else's without opening it.

You were never going to go looking. So we bring it.

Tell us what you treat once. New evidence in those areas arrives in a single Monday digest — already triaged, already summarised, already framed for your discipline.

BUILT PER DISCIPLINE

Every summary is written for the discipline reading it.

An interdisciplinary TBI study means something different to the physio setting mobility goals than to the SLP making goal-setting accessible. Pick your discipline and sub-specialties at sign-up; the feed and the implications follow.

PTPhysical therapy

Loading, dosage and progression criteria — what the protocol actually was, and whether it transfers to your caseload.

Orthopedics
Sports
Neurology
Vestibular
Cardiopulmonary
Geriatrics
Pediatrics
OTOccupational therapy

Whether a finding shows up in everyday occupation or only in timed capacity testing — and what to measure to know.

Neuro Rehab
Pediatrics
Hand Therapy
Mental Health
Geriatrics
Work & Ergonomics
SLPSpeech-language pathology

Delivery mode, dose and generalisation to untrained items — the details that decide whether a protocol survives your clinic.

Aphasia
Dysphagia
Pediatric Speech
Voice
Fluency
AAC
MONDAY DIGEST

New evidence, once a week, grouped by why you asked for it.

Set up alerts on the topics you treat. Each issue lists the new papers under the alert that caught them, so you can skim the sections that matter and skip the rest. Save what you want to keep; leave a private note on why.

Unlimited alerts on sub-specialties and keywords
A library with collections, so sixty saved papers stay findable
Private notes that never leave your account
Applied Evidence digestWeek of Aug 31
4 new papers matching your alerts
ACL & knee rehab3 papers
Blood-Flow-Restriction Training vs. Heavy Resistance Exercise After ACL Reconstruction
RCT · J Orthop Sports Phys Ther · 2024
Vestibular Rehabilitation for Persistent Postural-Perceptual Dizziness
RCT · Physical Therapy · 2025
Pediatric language1 paper
Parent-Implemented Language Intervention for Late-Talking Toddlers
RCT · Am J Speech Lang Pathol · 2025

Questions clinicians ask

Do you read the full text?

No. Summaries are built from the abstract and bibliographic record, which is what is reliably available across our sources. The paper page says so, and links to the record so you can go further.

What happens when a paper is retracted?

Summaries are regenerated whenever the record is amended or retracted, so the correction reaches you and a retracted paper is withdrawn rather than left standing.

Can I use this with patients?

Use it to find and triage evidence for yourself. Do not present a summary to a patient as clinical guidance, and do not enter identifiable patient information into search.

What if the full text is paywalled?

The summary and the bibliographic record are always free to read. Where the full text sits behind a paywall we link you to the publisher’s page — we do not host or bypass paywalls.

Do you offer institutional plans?

Yes — contact us and we will set one up. Shared billing for a department or clinic is arranged by hand today.

What if a summary is wrong?

Report it from the paper page and say what is wrong. We regenerate that summary against the source, then correct or remove it. Those reports are how our checks get better.

ARTICLES

Guides to reading the evidence.

Plain-language explainers on appraising research, plus evidence round-ups by sub-specialty. Free to read, no account needed.

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Critical appraisalFEATURED
How to read a randomised controlled trial in ten minutes

A five-step order of operations: population, comparator, primary outcome, confidence interval, funding. With a worked example on an ACL rehabilitation trial.

4 Sep 2026 · 9 min read
Occupational therapy
Constraint-induced movement therapy: who it suits, and who it does not
7 Aug 2024 · 7 min read
Physical therapy
Fall prevention programmes that work, and the exercise dose that makes them work
31 Jul 2024 · 10 min read
Critical appraisal
Statistically significant, clinically meaningless: how to read effect sizes
24 Jul 2024 · 6 min read
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