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Children with USCP have difficulties to use their hands and feel bothered with their performance.

Extensive caregiver assistance may limit the child's performance in bimanual activities.

Intervention should consider efficacy, time, and the child feeling bothered in bimanual activities.

Almost one in three trials included in the NICE LBP CPG use suboptimal comparators.

Invasive and non-surgical trials used more suboptimal comparators than pharmacological trials.

Use of suboptimal comparators in a substantial proportion of trials may be misleading some CPGs leading to inconsistencies in recommendations.

Using suboptimal comparators made treatments less likely to be recommended for use by NICE LBP CPG.

This manuscript proposes a new physical therapy diagnostic concept.

This proposition is based on the World Health Organisation classifications.

This model goes beyond the health problem.

It includes the impact of relevant impairments on everyday activities and performance.

It is applicable to all patients in all contexts and practice domains.

There is a high variation in measuring causal beliefs about low back pain.

No measurement exists that clearly isolates causal beliefs from other belief domains.

There is a lack of studies exploring longitudinal relationships between causal beliefs and health outcomes.

Causal beliefs are just one element of a complex beliefs construct, and there is very little quantitative evidence from which its unique relevance can be judged.

People with Parkinson´s disease (PD) have greater arm swing asymmetry than healthy individuals.

People with PD have lower arm swing (AS) amplitude than healthy individuals.

As PD progresses, symptoms worsen and gait cadence increases, AS asymmetry decreases.

AS asymmetry and AS are relevant motor parameters for gait rehabilitation in PD.

Most of the cervical radiculopathy studies included physical examination in their reference standard, potentially leading to a risk of confirmation bias.

Included studies varied in reported test procedures and positive diagnostic criteria.

Based on our findings we proposed a more standardised test procedure for the ULTT1 with accompanying criteria for when the test is positive to facilitate homogeneity in future diagnostic accuracy studies of the ULTT.

Emergency Departments were the most accessed setting by individuals with non-specific spinal disorders.

Individuals with non-specific spinal disorders underwent more imaging and drug prescriptions than exercise interventions.

Women are approximately 2 times more likely to access Emergency Departments compared to men.

Individuals with Achilles tendinopathy (AT) did not differ from individuals with chronic low back pain (CLBP) in prevalence of high kinesiophobia.

Individuals with AT and those with CLBP both presented with moderate disability.

Clinicians can learn from AT to inform the treatment of CLBP and vice versa.

Functional limitation is relatively common after cardiac surgery.

Functional limitation could be predicted by preoperative and post-operative factors.

Public healthcare system increased the risk of functional limitation.

Expiratory muscle weakness increased the risk of functional limitation.

Taking patient values into account is implicit and intuitive.

Patient values are closely associated with humanity in care.

Most barriers are experienced in being responsive.

Guidelines seems to be at odds regarding uniqueness of patients.

Systematic reflection on patient values is necessary in high quality care.

The presence of comorbidities in cardiac patients increased healthcare costs.

Physical activity might minimize healthcare costs associated with cardiovascular diseases.

Patients with higher habitual physical activity presented savings of US$ 35.11 over a 24-month period.

No additional effect of PNE when added to SMT compared to SMT alone for pain intensity in the short-term.

No additional effect of PNE when added to SMT compared to SMT alone for low back pain-related disability in the short-term.

Additional effect of PNE when added to SMT for pain and disability in the long-term.

Additional effect of PNE when added to SMT for global perceived effect of improvement at the 6-month follow-up.

Additional effect of PNE when added to SMT for pain self-efficacy at the 6-month follow-up.

Interferential current probably reduces pain intensity and disability immediately post-treatment compared to placebo in patients with chronic non-specific low back pain.

Interferential current may reduce pain, but not disability, immediately post-treatment compared to other interventions in patients with chronic non-specific low back pain.

Interferential current combined with other intervention (massage or exercises) may not further reduce pain intensity and disability compared to other interventions provided in isolation immediately post-treatment in patients with chronic non-specific low back pain.

The ecological-enactive approach to pain extends the biopsychosocial model.

Clinical reasoning and practice centers around affordances: opportunities for action.

Disabling pain is experienced as closed-off or “stuck” field of affordances.

Therapist and patient work together to make sense of pain, complexity, and uncertainty.

Together, they choose interventions aimed to “open-up” the field of affordances.