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Chronic pain and hypertension (HTN) are intertwined global health challenges, with substantial societal and economic burdens.

Evidence suggests a bidirectional relationship between chronic pain and HTN, influenced by shared risk factors such as metabolic syndrome, obesity, poor sleep quality, and mental health conditions.

Physical therapists (PTs) can play a pivotal role in managing patients with chronic pain and HTN through evidence-informed screening, assessment, and interventions.

The proposed framework integrates biopsychosocial models for personalized pain management and emphasizes blood pressure monitoring for safe, effective interventions.

Individuals with CP can experience motor decline during transition to adulthood.

Previous reviews summarized factors leading to decline in gait, but not in other motor-related outcomes.

Age, GMFCS level, and presence of pain stood out as significant for a decline in gross motor function, gait, and neuromusculoskeletal functions.

Factors relevant to motor outcomes should be monitored by professionals providing rehabilitation to adolescents and adults.

Virtual reality when added to traditional exercises provided no additional.benefit for joint position sense.

Cervical mobilization when added to traditional exercises provided no additional benefit for joint position sense.

Virtual reality when added to traditional exercises provided no additional benefit for pain relief.

Cervical mobilization when added to traditional exercises provided no additional benefit for pain relief.

Small associations were seen with pitching mechanics and elbow torque when controlling for pitch velocity. This suggests that varus torques can potentially be reduced while maintaining pitch velocity.

Optimizing pitching efficiency by improving small aspects throughout the delivery will likely lead to increased coaching effectiveness vs attempting to find one variable.

Differences in association were seen in pelvic rotational velocity and thoracic rotational velocity, suggesting potential ramifications for the oblique musculature in force generation. This is an area for further research and focus.

Cerebral Palsy is the leading cause of physical disability worldwide.

The early detection of cerebral palsy enables timely interventions, benefiting children's developmental outcomes.

A framework has guided clinical practices for the early detection of cerebral palsy achieving high accuracy.

The framework implementation in low- and middle-income countries has been challenging.

Translated educational resources and technology-driven strategies might enhance early cerebral palsy detection and clinical decision-making.

The study summarizes and clarify compensatory protective step strategies.

Terminology aims to develop clinical tools to assess fall risk via step strategies.

Fourteen strategies were defined to condense an initial list of 61 definitions.

Confirmed sarcopenia was found in 14.1 % of participants with a significant mean age of over 60.

This study suggests sarcopenia screening is possible in public health services.

Physical therapeutic assessment of the muscular profile allows early intervention.

Resistance training was the only therapeutic exercise (TE) approach that showed clinical relevance, in the short and long term, to reduce pain intensity in women with fibromyalgia, showing a moderately important improvement (>30 %).

In the short term, aquatic exercise was the most effective approach to reduce pain intensity, so it could be an appropriate option to start a TE program in women with fibromyalgia.

These findings could contribute to a change in the current paradigm on TE prescription in fibromyalgia, because the “gold standard” recommendation of aerobic exercise should be replaced by other more effective approaches.

The results provide a valuable tool for decision making when choosing the most appropriate TE approach according to the patient's characteristics and preferences, because it is a key factor in improving adherence to treatment.

The main and early symptom of pulmonary hypertension is exercise-related dyspnea.

The sit-to-stand-test (STST) assesses exercise tolerance quickly and with minimal instruments.

The 30-STST and 1-STST exhibit valid convergent validity and excellent responsiveness.

The 5-STST protocol demonstrates responsiveness only to treatment.