The ResearchWorks Podcast
The Research Works podcast is designed for health professionals in the area of child health, where we discuss emerging, modern, evidence based research - the behind the scenes stories, interviews with world renowned authors and researchers, material that never made the papers and a breakdown on how you can implement this into your clinical practice.
Episodes
Early Detection and Early Intervention - where are we now (and what does the future hold)?
The last time we had Alicia on the pod, we spoke about the Cochrane Review she led titled “Early developmental intervention programmes provided post hospital discharge to prevent motor and cognitive impairment in preterm infants” which was published in 2024. In this week’s episode, we thought we’d ask Alicia about the state of early inter...
Implementing Clinical Practice Guidelines for Improving Function in Cerebral Palsy: Development of a Fidelity Tool
In this study, the research team developed a 21-item fidelity tool to help clinicians implement evidence-based guidelines for improving function in children with cerebral palsy. Designed for goal setting, intervention, and reflection, the tool was found to be practical and useful but faced challenges like time cons...
Professor Nick Gottardo walks us through medulloblastomas - a comprehensive master class for clinicians and researchers. Expect to learn about early signs and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Dr Nick breaks this down beautifully.
What was really clear throughout our discussion was that collaboration is key. Given the incidence of medulloblastomas and the specific subtypes that fall within this category, it would n...
All about knowledge translation
A special episode with our illustrious hosts before we catch up with Professor Nick Gottardo, Professor Alicia Spittle, Professor Andrew Whitehouse, Dr Gareth Baynam, Assoc. Professor Nikki Milne and Assoc. Clinical Professor Anita Gross amongst many others!
Randomized Comparison Trial of Rehabilitation Very Early for Infants with Congenital Hemiplegia
Roslyn N Boyd, Susan Greaves, Jenny Ziviani, Iona Novak, Nadia Badawi, Kerstin Pannek, Catherine Elliott, Margaret Wallen, Catherine Morgan, Jane Valentine, Lisa Findlay, Andrea Guzzetta, Koa Whittingham, Robert S Ware, Simona Fiori, Nathalie L Maitre, Jill Heathcock, Kimberley Scott, Ann-Christin Eliasson, Leanne Sakzewski
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Upper Limb Therapy for Infants and Young Children with Unilateral Cerebral Palsy: A Clinical Framework
Susan Greaves, Brian Hoare
PMID: 39598017 PMCID: PMC11594546 DOI: 10.3390/jcm13226873
Abstract
Early detection and rehabilitation interventions are essential to optimise motor function in infants and young children with unilateral cerebral palsy. In this paper we report a clinical framework aime...
Experiences of participation in daily life of adolescents and young adults with cerebral palsy: A scoping review
Stacey L Cleary, Prue E Morgan, Margaret Wallen, Ingrid Honan, Nora Shields, Freya E Munzel, James R Plummer, Cassandra Assaad, Petra Karlsson, Evelyn Culnane, Jacqueline Y Ding, Carlee Holmes, Iain M Dutia, Dinah S Reddihough, Christine Imms
- PMID: 39673293
- DOI: 10.1111/dmcn.16196
Abstract
To round off 2024 and as an extra special lead-in to a stellar 2025 ahead, we have a holiday special - all about the EACD & IAACD 2025 Conference to be held in Heidelberg Germany! 🇩🇪
It's going to be a very unique conference this year as a combined EACD/IAACD event - so join with Dr Sebastian Schroeder and Dr Rainer Blank as they speak with our very own Dr Dayna Pool!
From a behind the scenes look, to w...
incredible!
The team at the ResearchWorks Podcast are celebrating 200 episodes! With over 4 seasons, invited collaborators with the EACD - European Academy of Childhood-onset Disabilities Conference and the AusACPDM - the Australasian Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine and Transformative Practice Award Winners for 2024, it has been a stellar journey. 🚀
Join us for a brilliant wrap up for Season ...
An incredible episode with Director of Research - Professor Ben Jackson from The Kids Research Institute Australia - a masterful lesson in communication skills.
Our role as clinicians involves a whole lot of communication and there are evidence based approaches for how we communicate. This is so important because whilst communication skills are often referred to as 'soft skills', they are the key to understanding...
Motor optimality score-revised (mos-r) and hammersmith infant neurological examination (hine) predict high likelihood of autism at 12 months corrected age in a developmentally vulnerable infant cohort.
Dr Carly Luke is a Physiotherapist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Queensland Cerebral Palsy and Rehabilitation Research Centre, the University of Queensland. Her work across clinical and research settings is focus...
The power of Para sport: the effect of performance-focused swimming training on motor function in adolescents with cerebral palsy and high support needs (GMFCS IV) - a single-case experimental design with 30-month follow-up.
Abstract
Objective: This study aims to evaluate the effect of a performance-focused swimming programme on motor function in previously untrained adolescents with cerebral palsy and high su...
Effectiveness of postural interventions in cerebral palsy: umbrella systematic review.
Monica Toohey , Remy Blatch-Williams , Kristian Budini , Astrid Ferreira , Alexandra Griffin , Ashleigh Hines , Michelle Jackman , Karin Lind , Jill Massey , Maria Mc Namara , Jenna Mitchell , Catherine Morgan , Esther Norfolk , Madison CB. Paton , Daniel Polyblank , Sarah Reedman , Iona Novak
Discussion
The object...
Ewan is the director of Malaria Risk Stratification at the Kids Research Institute Australia.
With over a decade of international research experience spanning the fields of astronomy, statistics, machine learning and epidemiology, Dr Ewan Cameron returned to Australia in February 2020 as an Associate Professor at Curtin University and Honorary Research Associate at The Kids Research Institute Australia.
Within t...
Validating the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Core Sets for Autism in a Sample of Australian School-Aged Children on the Spectrum.
Assessing functioning of children on the autism spectrum is necessary to determine the level of support they require to participate in everyday activities across contexts.
The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (I...
The pod now has many (thousands!) of new listeners and we decided to bring forward our annual Q and A session with the hosts of the show.
A little more backstory of each host, a look back at why we do what we do, some incredible highlights you might have missed and why the pod is a firm proponent of evidence based practices.
We cover off many topics, including:
Is the podcast a full-time gig?
What the difference b...
LEAP-CP stands for Learning through Everyday Activities with Parents, an early detection and intervention program that adapts the international clinical practice guideline for early detection and intervention in CP for low and middle income countries.
In this paper, LEAP-CP was tested in an RCT with Asha Bhavan Centre in India from 2019 to 2019 and has continued implementation since 2021. This study aimed to determine the...
The Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy and bridging the gap: co-designing a decision aid for informed decision making.
HABIT-ILE Australia: Randomised trial of Hand-Arm Bimanual Intensive Training Including Lower Extremity for Children with bilateral cerebral palsy
A not to be missed episode! This is the extended interview with Hannah Diviney that was the stunning opening keynote to AusACPDM 2024!
Don't be fooled by the music... we continued having a chat with Hannah for another 20 minutes and it was so good, we decided to add it to the episode listing as a full fledged interview!
52 minutes of pure joy - Hannah is a wonderful communicator, role model and advocate and i...
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