
AudioScholar Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Weekly
This Week in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation — Aug 20, 2026
Welcome to This Week in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning how and where we deliver rehabilitation, stroke recovery interventions and the limits of prognostication, and the medical complications… This week's papers: 1. Effectiveness of In-Clinic Rehabilitation vs. Home-Based Telerehabilitation for Adults with MS in the Deep South: The TEAMS Cluster Randomized Trial — Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2026 2. Effectiveness of a Personalized Robot-Assisted Trunk and Lower Limb Rehabilitation in Patients with Chronic Stroke: A Randomized Controlled Trial — American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation 2026 3. Comparative Efficacy of Body Acupuncture, Electroacupuncture, and Auricular Acupuncture in Stroke Rehabilitation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Rand… — American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation 2026 4. Management of Shoulder Pain in Primary Care: A Review — JAMA Internal Medicine 2026 5. Prevalence, association, and associated factors of diabetes mellitus in individuals with spinal cord injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis — Spinal Cord 2026 6. An evaluation of pressure injury associated pelvic osteomyelitis in patients with spinal cord injuries in a Veterans Affairs population — The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine 2026 7. Ventral Column Spinal Cord Stimulation for Pain Management: Mechanisms, Clinical Evidence, and Future Directions — American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation 2026 8. Development and external validation of quality indicators for Neurorehabilitation Units: The REHABest Delphi study — Clinical Rehabilitation 2026 9. Survey on stroke rehabilitation in Europe (SUSTAIN-EU) to evaluate European stroke rehabilitation services — Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine 2026 10. A systematic review of early neuroimaging and neurophysiological biomarkers for post-stroke mobility prognostication — Clinical Rehabilitation 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/bbvyb37s8p

