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Clinically, dry cupping therapy is often believed to reduce pain and improve functional capacity in patients with knee osteoarthritis.

Dry cupping therapy was not superior to sham cupping for women with knee osteoarthritis.

Dry cupping therapy and sham cupping showed similar and small within-group improvements in pain, function, and quality of life.

From a national primary care perspective, around 1 % of people with LBP were referred to physical therapy.

The amount of time between referral and being seen by physical therapists ranged from 17 to 261 days.

The overall rate of physical therapy visits to manage LBP was 1.28 per 1000 people.

49.1 % of adults with DCD had co-occurring executive function (EF) deficits.

Cold EF deficits were more prevalent than hot emotion-related deficits.

Co-occurring EF deficits contribute to poor emotional, mental, and overall well-being.

EF should be evaluated in DCD care plan.

Healthcare professionals should use empowering language about knee osteoarthritis, highlighting self-management and maintenance of activities by individuals and focusing on quality of life.

Evidence-based health education for individuals with knee osteoarthritis is important for adherence to recommendations for self-management of the condition.

Portuguese-speaking individuals with knee osteoarthritis had good experiences and benefitted from the PEAK-PT course.

4154 deaths (9.5 %) occurred during a mean follow-up of 7 years.

Handgrip strength predicts mortality better than Chair Stand Test.

Chair Stand Test is more relevant for mortality in older women.

16 stakeholders from various disciplines provided feedback at multiple stages.

Barriers to integrate CBT-I in physical therapy practice are multifaceted.

Strategies focus on roles for education, research, policymakers, and patient partners.

Stronger transdisciplinary collaboration could enhance CBT-I accessibility.

Insights inform future research on implementing CBT-I in physical therapy practice.

Functional recovery after severe TBI in Brazil is influenced by sociodemographic and clinical factors.

Lower education levels were associated with worse outcomes within 1-year assessment.

Length of mechanical ventilation was a consistently strong predictor of unfavorable outcome.

Decompressive craniectomy and advanced age (>65 years) were linked to poor long-term functional outcomes.

Pain phenotypes responsible for persistent shoulder pain can be complex and dynamic.

Presentation of shoulder pain phenotype assessment and clinical reasoning.

Knowledge gaps on characteristics of patients per specific shoulder pain phenotype.

Supervised high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and moderate-intensity continuous training (MICT) are options for heart failure treatment in cardiovascular rehabilitation programs (CoR, low CoE).

Supervised moderate-intensity resistance training (MIRT) may be more effective than low-intensity resistance training (LIRT) for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) patients (CoR, very low CoE).

High-intensity inspiratory muscle training (HI-IMT) improves inspiratory muscle strength/endurance in heart failure patients (CoR, very low CoE).

Aerobic training (AT) plus neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) offers no extra benefit over AT alone for heart failure patients (CoR, low CoE).

NMES is more effective than NMES placebo or usual activities for heart failure patients (CoR, low CoE).