Time to go back to school! Fingers crossed for a safe return for all students, employees, and faculty.
I’m looking forward to learning about college teaching, functional magnetic resonance imaging, grantsmanship, and motion capture this semester.
Conference updates:
- AAOMPT has cancelled their annual conference that was supposed to be in Cleveland, OH this fall. I was set to present an educational session on The Wild West of Dry Needling: Why Research Needs to Catch Up To Clinical Practice. Hopefully this can happen next year!
- CSM has officially been moved from in person to virtual with all educational and research presentations still to occur. More information coming out in September. A lot of our work from the spring/summer has been submitted to different sections for posters/platforms. It will be interesting to see how the 100th APTA CSM will be now that it is going virtual.
Journal/Publication Updates:
- JOSPT has accepted our musculoskeletal imaging article for publication! This will be featured in the December 2020 issue. We’re really excited to share this case! Stay tuned for the ahead of print release and the December issue of JOSPT.
- Members of the American Academy of Sports Physical Therapy received some sad news. The International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy is stopping operations and their last issue will come out in December 2020. Personally this journal has meant a lot to me and our group at OSU. My first ever publication was in IJSPT, and last year our fellow in training won best case report in the journal. We currently have a case report under review after a revision. Fingers crossed it makes it into print before the end of the year.
Podcasts:
- I had a great time talking with Jason Ward from the Mechanical Care Forum about our work involving the Sharp Purser Test. You can read about this work in Physiotherapy Theory & Practice and Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy. The podcast episodes will come out later this year.
- In December I’ll be talking with Dr. Nick Gulla about the patient case that will be featured in JOSPT this December on his podcast:
JOSPT systematic reviews
- JOSPT has been coming out with a lot of high quality systematic and scoping reviews in 2020.
- Patient education for Patellofemoral Pain: A systematic Review
- Seven Key Themes in Physical Therapy Advice for Patients Living with Subacromial shoulder pain
- There is Limited and Inconsistent Reporting of Postoperative Rehabilitation for Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome: A Scoping Review of 169 Studies
Ever since our group published a systematic review in JOSPT and JMMT, I’ve become a go to person for systematic reviews and bit of a nerd when it comes to systematic review methodology. In Patient education for Patellofemoral Pain: A systematic Review I love how they reported the results from their meta-analysis but advocate caution due to high statistical heterogeneity of the results. So much caution, that they didn’t even put meta-analysis in the title.
It tends to be a faux pas in systematic reviews to report meta-analysis when there is high statistical heterogeneity. This happened to us when it came to our systematic review in JMMT on the sharp-purser test, where we performed meta-analysis but could not report it due to the high statistical heterogeneity between studies. In hindsight, I wish we could have done what they did in Patient education for Patellofemoral Pain: A systematic Review, and will consider it for future systematic reviews.
Evidence into practice:
- If you’re looking to bone up on how to interpret the evidence and use it in practice, Dr. Kamper has an excellent series of papers titled Evidence into Practice.
- The latest one was released in the August issue of JOSPT on understanding the type of research questions.
Those are my highlights before the start of the fall semester.
Best wishes,
Photos from the weekend:
