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Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine: this week's candidates

Clinical trials, guidelines and reviews that entered PubMed in the past 7 days, published in journals ranked Top 10% or higher within their own field. Updated every morning. Free, no account.

Clinical trials

7 this week

R-SPEAK, an AI-Based Smartphone App to Enhance Communication in People With Expressive Aphasia: Qualitative Acceptability and Usability Study

Journal of medical Internet research · Top 5%

Parent Perspectives on I-ACQUIRE Therapy

Stroke · Top 5%

Scalp acupuncture coupled with speech-language therapy modulates the ventral-dorsal structural brain network in patients with post-stroke anomia: a randomized clinical and DTI neuroimaging trial

Chinese medicine · Top 5%

Effect of a wearable-based individualised multidomain lifestyle intervention on cognitive and physical function in older adults at risk of decline (INSPIOR): a single-centre, open-label, randomised controlled trial

EClinicalMedicine · Top 5%

Association Between a Hybrid Video-Guided Multicomponent Exercise Program With Staff Assistance and Free-Living Gait in Older Adults With Knee and Low Back Pain: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial

JMIR aging · Top 10%

'Some of Them Were Created by People Who Have Never Had a Stroke': Understanding Desired Physical and Occupational Therapy Research Study Features for People With Chronic Stroke

Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · Top 10%

Effectiveness of Biopsychosocial Model-Based Care versus Routine Physical Therapy on Clinical, Sensorimotor, and Psychosocial Outcomes in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Journal of pain research · Top 10%

Guidelines

2 this week

Bridging the Developmental Gap: Pediatric Considerations for the ISHLT Consensus Statement on Frailty in Lung Transplantation

The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation · Top 5%

Reducing the burden of heat-related impacts on cardiovascular health

European heart journal · Top 5%

Reviews and meta-analyses

21 this week

Osteoarthritis year in review 2026: Biomechanics

Osteoarthritis and cartilage · Top 5%

A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Perioperative Muscle Wasting Following Major Abdominal Surgery

Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · Top 5%

Chemotherapy-Induced Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction and Cognitive Impairment: A Muscle-Brain Mechanistic Framework With Implications for Exercise Oncology

Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · Top 5%

Development of a Nursing Practice Framework for 5G-Enabled Cross-Regional Remote Surgery

Journal of nursing management · Top 5%

Biomaterial-Based Controlled Release Systems for Spinal Cord Remyelination

Advanced materials · Top 5%

Meniscal Root Tears: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Management, and Outcomes

The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume · Top 5%

Implementing exercise therapy for hip and knee osteoarthritis in the clinic: a best practice narrative review

Best practice & research. Clinical rheumatology · Top 5%

Reflections on 20 Years of Research on Tai Chi for Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: An Updated Review

Current rheumatology reports · Top 5%

+ 13 more — the daily digest lists them all, by topic.

5 other articles from these journals are not listed yet: PubMed has not classified their article type, and we have not been able to determine it either. We do not guess.

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