Eight interesting articles

Review of Physical Therapy Journal March

This month’s issue has three articles that caught my eye.  Maybe you have some input.

• Utilization and clinical outcomes of out patient physical therapy for Medicare beneficiaries with musculoskeletal conditions – very interesting – worth reading
• Depressive symptoms, anatomical region, and clinical outcomes for patients seeking outpatient physical therapy for musculoskeletal pain.  – higher depression in women and those with chronic pain. Depression “contributed additional variance” to pain intensity.  Our patients fall into this category and it is important to recognize the influence of depression. 
• Responsiveness to change of 10 physical tests used for patients with back pain

BJU International - Volume 107, Issue 10 Page i - 1697

Validity and reliability of the patient’s perception of intensity of urgency scale in overactive bladder (pages 1612–1617)
Rufus Cartwright, Sushma Srikrishna, Linda Cardozo and Dudley Robinson

The Journal of Sexual Medicine - Volume 8, Issue 5 Page 1261 - 1552

Intralevator Injection of Botulinum Toxin for the Treatment of Hypertonic Pelvic Floor Muscle Dysfunction and Vestibulodynia (pages 1287–1290)
Andrew T. Goldstein, Lara J. Burrows and Susan Kellogg-Spadt

International Journal of Urology - Volume 18, Issue 6 Pages 409 - 487, June 2011

Early recovery of urinary continence after radical prostatectomy: Correlation with vesico-urethral anastomosis location in the pelvic cavity measured by postoperative cystography (pages 444–451)
Seong Jin Jeong, Junseok Yi, Min Soo Chung, Dae Sung Kim, Won Ki Lee, Hongzoo Park, Cheol Yong Yoon, Sung Kyu Hong, Seok-Soo Byun and Sang Eun Lee

BJU International – Article first published online: 19 MAY 2011

Age at surgery, educational level and long-term urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy Andreas E. Nilsson, Martin C. Schumacher, Eva Johansson, Stefan Carlsson, Johan Stranne, Tommy Nyberg, N. Peter Wiklund and Gunnar Steineck

BJU International - Volume 107, Issue 11 Page i - 1868

Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) surgery: the evidence for the repairs (pages 1704–1719)
Alex Gomelsky, David F. Penson and Roger R. Dmochowski