Plain-language guides to appraising research.
Evidence round-ups by sub-specialty, written for practising PTs, OTs and SLPs.
A five-step order of operations: population, comparator, primary outcome, confidence interval, funding. With a worked example on an ACL rehabilitation trial.
Certainty ratings describe confidence in the estimate, not the size of the effect. Here is how the four levels are assigned and what each should change about your reading.
Where BFR matches heavy resistance loading, where it does not, and the cuff pressures and dosages the trials actually used.
Noninferiority findings on naming outcomes, the attendance advantage, and the access caveats the trials could not test.
Why the gains show up in everyday arm use rather than timed capacity tests, and the wrist and finger extension threshold most trials require.
Multifactorial programmes cut fall rate by about a fifth — but only the ones with supervised, progressive balance training. The dose threshold matters.