TL;DR: The research into professional identity and its development is abundant in healthcare modalities such as medicine, nursing, pharmacology, pharmacy, occupational therapy, and physiotherapy as mentioned in this paper , and it has shown positive association with motivation and retention, resilience, professional engagement and commitment.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors compared the effectiveness of osteopathy combined with physiotherapy treatment (PT) compared to PT alone on fatigue and functional limitations after two months post randomization in adults with long COVID.

TL;DR: In this article , a masterclass aimed to facilitate critical thinking and engagement in research for clinicians to make better-informed decisions with their patients is presented, with the aim of empowering them to judge research themselves, detect common fallacies in the conduct and reporting of different research designs, and to increase researchers' accountability.

TL;DR: This article examined the way osteopathic professionals negotiate their identities in relation to the ideas and legacy of osteopathy's 19th century founder, Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, and found that American osteopaths engage in a speculative practice about what Still would or would not think about contemporary osteopathic medical education and practice.

TL;DR: The World Health Organization (WHO) defined traditional medicine as the sum total of knowledge, skill, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not, used in the maintenance of health as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness as discussed by the authors .

TL;DR: In this article , qualitative data from communication between an osteopath and patient participating in a research study to develop a new psychologically informed pain management course was analyzed qualitatively using Linguistic Ethnography.

TL;DR: The Osteopaths' Therapeutic Approaches Questionnaire (Osteo-TAQ) as discussed by the authors was developed from qualitative research and aims to measure and describe multiple dimensions of osteopath's therapeutic approach to patient care.

TL;DR: In this article , a meta-analysis was designed to assess the effectiveness and safety of extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) for patients with low back pain (LBP).

TL;DR: In this article , a critical conflict-based intersectional feminist approach to professional training that requires students to undress and expose their bodies in order to acquire knowledge is proposed, which is exclusive, harmful and rooted in aesthetic values that tend to percolate osteopathic discourse in multiple ways.

TL;DR: A cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey of Portuguese registered osteopaths was composed using sociodemographic determinants, the Health Care Providers' Pain and Impairment Relationship Scale (HC-PAIRS) and Pain Attitudes and Beliefs for Physiotherapists (PABS-PT) as mentioned in this paper .

TL;DR: In this paper , a systematic review of English articles published by Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus, Pedro, Web of Science and Cochrane through December 2018 was conducted to investigate the efficacy of the Mulligan mobilization technique on patients with cervicogenic headache.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors used CiteSpace software to generate the relevant knowledge map and carry out scientometric analysis on the number of literature, cooperation between countries/regions and research institutions, disciplines, journals, highly cited references, and keywords.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors explored the clinical reasoning used by practitioners in their selection of these modalities and found that there are numerous variables involved in clinical reasoning, including patient and practitioner-based factors as well as external influences.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors discuss and make appropriate recommendations to address these five issues in manual therapy research, including insufficient pre-training of operators delivering the treatment and/or sham therapy, biased recruitment of study participants, the problematic use of subjective and or objective outcomes, and the presence of phenomena mimicking placebo effects.

TL;DR: In this paper , an online survey was designed to investigate the self-reported utilisation of Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) by Australian osteopaths, including the frequency of use, the types of PROMs used, the features of PRO, the attitudes towards PROM, and the barriers and enablers for use of POMs.

TL;DR: In this article , the available evidence mostly consists of small trials, qualitative interviews, cross-sectional surveys and conceptual commentaries, therefore a review to chart and appraise available evidence regarding osteopathic education is warranted.

TL;DR: Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) may improve outcomes during COVID-related respiratory distress - the most common cause of death from novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) as discussed by the authors .

TL;DR: In this article , the authors explored osteopathy student perceptions of think-pair-share, a teaching strategy that combines elements of retrieval practice with cooperative learning, and quantified the effect of this teaching strategy on self-reported engagement and academic achievement.

TL;DR: A review of the use of VR with haptic feedback in health care education is presented in this article , where the authors evaluated the overall quality of the evidence (high, moderate, low and very low) using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) and/or GRADE CERQual tools.

TL;DR: For example, the authors found that there are gaps in the existing knowledge on headache among UK osteopaths and the extent of this is dependent on prior headache education, and that ongoing knowledge education among osteopath is needed in the field.

TL;DR: In this paper , a case report of a female patient's experience of Long COVID and her motivation for, experience of and response to osteopathic care was presented. But, the case report was made retrospectively, with some attempt made at symptom quantification but with no numeric data on outcomes.

TL;DR: In this paper , the effect of manual therapy applied to the upper cervical spine combined with cervical exercises in patients with Cervicogenic Headaches was evaluated in a randomized controlled trial.

TL;DR: In this paper , a narrative of the sources of back pain is presented based on the current literature and reveals their position as practicing physiotherapists who are dealing with back pain patients.

TL;DR: A systematic review of the literature on postoperative OMT in cardiac surgery patients is presented in this article , where the authors identified four eligible studies which were included in the quantitative analysis of the present review.

TL;DR: In this paper , the effects of manual therapy on patients with non-specific chronic neck pain were compared with stabilization exercises and therapeutic exercises, and the results showed that stabilization exercises combined with manual therapy had more positive effects among patients.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors evaluated the acute effects of WBV exercise and OMT on heart rate variability (HRV) in individuals with metabolic syndrome (MSy) in a cross-over study.

TL;DR: In this paper , a masterclass aimed to provide clinical confidence for musculoskeletal allied health professionals working with older adults to incorporate management of sarcopenia into their practice, focusing on diagnosis of disease, appropriate and safe therapeutic exercise prescription, as well as appropriate referral for these patients.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors evaluated the mental health symptoms among osteopathic physicians from a single academic institution during the COVID-19 pandemic and found that physicians who encountered >50 patients had higher depression symptoms (OR 1.17, CI 1.02-1.30; p = 0.032) compared to attending physicians.