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April 2022 - Volume 46 - Issue 2

  • George D. Fulk, PT, PhD, FAPTA
  • 1557-0576
  • 1557-0584
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    Clinical Neurology 83/208
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Special Issue on Digital Health

Advances in technology constantly change and impact our lives and society. With recent advances in digital health technologies, this is particularly true in healthcare and related research. Digital health is a broad term, which encompasses telehealth, mobile health, and body worn sensors used for remote monitoring. The application and research of digital health technologies has been stimulated by the COVID-19 pandemic as both researchers and providers have adapted to the constraints imposed by the pandemic. This JNPT special topic issue will feature original research on the application of digital health technologies in the assessment and rehabilitation of individuals with neurological health conditions. 

Please see the Call for Manuscripts page for more information.

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Advancing Practice and Science Through Peer Review

Peer review is an integral, though underappreciated, aspect of science. Peer review ensures that basic ethics and research standards are met, and to enhance the scientific literature. At JNPT, we instruct reviewers that “the purpose of the review is to provide expert opinion regarding the quality of the manuscript under consideration, and should also supply authors with explicit feedback on how to improve their manuscripts so that they will be acceptable for publication in JNPT." In the larger picture of neurologic physical therapy science peer review helps shape the science and, in turn, influences clinical practice when research is translated to the clinic. Peer review plays a pivotal role in what ideas are published, research funding, and career progress.​

Read the full editorial here.

George Fulk, PT, PhD, FAPTA; Editor-in-Chief

​​The April 2022 issue of JNPT is packed full of exciting new content! This issue features an updated clinical practice guideline on vestibular rehabilitation for peripheral vestibular hypofunction and a related perspective for patients on the treatment of vestibular disorders, both by Hall and colleagues.

This issue also features two articles with associated author interviews by Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy (ANPT) Special Interest Groups. Harmat and colleagues assessed the prevalence, clinical course and underlying explanation for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo without nystagmus. The ANPT Vestibular Special Interest Group did an interview with the authors that is available as part of our JNPT/ANPT podcast series. In a special interest article, Rafferty and colleagues provide strategies for addressing barriers to health promotion and wellness activities in neurologic physical therapy practice. A podcast interview with the authors by the ANPT Degenerative Diseases Special Interest Group will be available soon.

Also in this issue, Rosenfeldt and colleagues evaluated adherence to a high-intensity community-based cycling exercise program among persons with Parkinson disease. Cleland and Schindler-Ivens tested associations between measures of lower limb propulsion/work symmetry, interlimb coordination and clinical motor impairment among persons with and without stroke. Winairuk and colleagues assessed item difficulty for the Stroke Rehabilitation Assessment of Movement (STREAM) scale and established impairment categories based on STREAM scores.

In addition, this issue includes the most outstanding abstracts presented at the 6th Brazilian Congress of Neurologic Physical Therapy in September 2021. Please also take a moment to recognize the important contributions of the JNPT editors and reviewers from 2021, whose service has helped advance the science of neurologic physical therapy. Next, be sure to check out the 2022 ANPT awardees, including JNPT Associate Editor Teresa Jacobson Kimberley, who earned the Excellence in Neurologic Research Award! Finally, don't miss the ANPT President's Perspective, reflecting on 2021 and looking forward to new beginnings in 2022.

We hope you enjoy this issue!

Pierce Boyne PT, DPT, PhD, NCS
JNPT Digital Media Editor

Vestibular Rehabilitation for Peripheral Vestibular Hypofunction: An Updated Clinical Practice Guideline From the Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy of the American Physical Therapy Association

Hall, Courtney D.; Herdman, Susan J.; Whitney, Susan L.; More

Journal of Neurologic Physical Therapy. 46(2):118-177, April 2022.

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