Topic
Knee
A collection of 58 issues
PT Crab #26 - What Do Patients Think Will Work?, Spooky Tibia at a Distance, Mobilization for Headaches Review, and The Right Amount of Neck Exercises
PT Crab Issue 25 - How Shoulder Mobes Change Muscle Activity, Where to Dry Needle for PFP Pain, Why You Should Sleep More, and iPads for Hand Therapy (Again)
Issue 22 Blue Crab Edition - Vestibular Rehab Predictors and Joint Position Sense with Fatigue
I don’t have a lot of precursors today, so let’s try something different and
just pop right into the articles. Enjoy!
P.S. You’ll find two articles below, but King Crab subscribers got 4! Yea, I
know not fair. If you want more, head to PTCrab.org/
Issue 19 Blue Crab Edition - An RCT Hip Mobilization with Movement in Hip OA and the Real Structure of Vastus Medialis
This week’s Blue Crab edition of PT Crab focuses on the hip and knee as we take
a tour of the vastus medialis muscle architecture to find that it’s much more
complex than we think and find out how mobilization with movement can help
patients with hip OA.
Issue 18 Blue Crab - Losing Weight Doesn’t Help OA and PT for LGBT is Tougher than for Most
Weight Loss Doesn't Help Knee and Hip OA
The Gist - A
systematic review and meta-analysis from JOSPT shows that weight loss
may not help hip and knee OA as much as we'd think. Nor spinal pain
neither. The researchers grabbed 22 trials with 3600 participants and
dug into the
Issue 17 Blue Crab - Open Chain ACL Repair Exercises?! A Case for Them and The Official Algorithm on When to Refer to a PTA
Open Chain Exercise for ACL Repair. Don’t Shoot the Messenger.
The Gist - This editorial from JOSPT is sure to be controversial (and already
has been in my family), so remember, I’m just the messenger for these two
PT/PhDs. They argue that it’s time to do
Issue 17 - Open Chain ACL Repair Exercises?! A Case for Them, PT in the ED, When to Refer to a PTA - The Official Algorithm, and The First Systematic Review of Covid Rehab
Issue 16 Blue Crab Edition - Pain Maps for Patellar Tendinopathy and Racial Trauma in Rehab Medicine
A Single Leg Squat Can (Possibly) Identify Patellar Tendinopathy
The Gist - This research, from a collection of PhDs from Queensland, Australia,
presents a new method for early detection of patellar tendinopathy, pain maps.
The researchers gathered 57 teenage volleyball players and had them perform
single-leg decline squats, then indicate