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ResearchWorks Podcast Bringing you the latest evidence from leading researchers in the area of child health

16/11/2025

✨ Celebrating the person is what the F-words is all about! 🥰
Professor Olaf Kraus de Camargo, from CanChild and McMaster University discusses with us his FREE BMJ Paediatrics Open article: Taking a strengths-based approach to developmental disability: the F-words for child development.
Join us for another brilliant interview in our penultimate episode of the season!
Professor Olaf - as he is known! - gives us a reminder that the F-words is more than a mere collection of feel-good words, semantics or the precursor to real clinical change.
How we consider the person, their point of view, their expressions and feelings is of paramount importance throughout childhood.
The pod is available on all good podcast platforms (Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music and more) and visit researchworks.net for a full episode rundown (including a link to the FREE BMJ open paper).
Be sure to visit researchworks.academy for FREE resources to empower your practice, with curated tools of the evidence and visit our YouTube channel for the videocast!
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We catch up with Professor Andrew Whitehouse! Now officially Family of the Pod - having been upgraded from Friend! 😉In 2...
01/11/2025

We catch up with Professor Andrew Whitehouse! Now officially Family of the Pod - having been upgraded from Friend! 😉
In 2024, a landmark review of the School Education Act 1999 was undertaken in Western Australia. Why? Because our education laws — drafted over 25 years ago — haven’t kept pace with modern understandings of disability, inclusion, or the rights of children and families.
This review, driven by an expert panel with deep experience in education, disability, and human rights, was driven by one clear question: Does our law support every child to access and thrive in school — or are there too many barriers to access and inclusion for students with disability?
What followed was an in-depth consultation with families, clinicians, educators, and young people with lived experience, resulting in 15 recommendations that aim to remove barriers — from enrollment gatekeeping, to inconsistent support, to exclusionary discipline, replacing them with legal obligations for inclusion, voice, and access.
For allied health clinicians, this matters. Because so often, we’re working with children whose ability to engage in school is shaped by systems, not just skills. Today, we unpack what this report means — and what could change if we get this right.
You can find the pod on all good podcast platforms, as well as on YouTube, where you can now watch (and listen) to the pod in multi-language formats!
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This week we catch up with Assistant Professor Kari Kretch! We're discussing her paper: Early mobility and crawling: bel...
27/10/2025

This week we catch up with Assistant Professor Kari Kretch! We're discussing her paper: Early mobility and crawling: beliefs and practices of Pediatric Physical Therapists in the United States.
A fantastic paper about Early Mobility and Crawling - Dr Kretch is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy at the University of Southern California. A leading expert in perceptual-motor development with her research focusing on infants with typical and atypical patterns, particularly those with or at risk for neurodevelopmental conditions like cerebral palsy and Down Syndrome, Kari leads the Learning, Development, and Rehabilitation Lab, investigating interventions to enhance exploration and learning.
The pod is available on all good podcast platforms and you'll even find the videocast on our YouTube channel - now with multi-language support!
Visit ResearchWorks.net for an episodic listing, along with links to the papers and visit the ResearchWorks Academy for FREE tools for clinicians and researchers, along with our soon to launch micro-credentialing courses!
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Our final AACPDM 2025 special with the incredible Professor Noelle Moreau!We hope you had an amazing time at the confere...
20/10/2025

Our final AACPDM 2025 special with the incredible Professor Noelle Moreau!
We hope you had an amazing time at the conference this year and we look forward to seeing everyone in person again in 2026 (and beyond!). This week's episode is all about her paper: Effects of Power Training combined with interval treadmill training on walking capacity versus performance in real world settings in youth with cerebral palsy.
Visit researchworks.net for an episodic catalogue of our podcast and visit researchworks.academy for FREE interactive tools for clinicians and researchers! We've added AI and Machine learning powered apps, along with staples like the GAS template and GAS calculator tools amongsts 100's of others!
You'll find the pod on all good podcast platforms and visit our YouTube channel for the multi-language version of each episode as a video-cast!
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15/10/2025

"The absence of evidence is not the absence of efficacy"
It is a nice catchphrase that is actually true for every single non-evidence based practice, irrespective of whether the intervention works or not.
The onus is on practitioners (and the developers of new interventions) to show efficacy before implementing and teaching the intervention to 100's of therapists. There is currently no published research on DMI or CME to back the claims of efficacy.
We believe it is imperative that families and clinicians need a more balanced and informed view of non-evidence based interventions. This is vital to ensure that an informed choice can be made.
"You have to do the work"
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13/10/2025

This week on the pod, we discuss the paper "Where's the Evidence? Challenging Therapists to Stop Legitimizing Dynamic Movement Intervention and Cuevas Medek Exercises" published in Pediatric Physical Therapy in September 2025.
The paper has sparked robust conversation and interest so this episode talks through some of the main feedback themes as well as the heart behind the paper.
As practicing clinicians in our respective fields, representing tertiary, community and low to middle income resource settings, this is truly a wonderful conversation that brings forth why evidence based practice is so vital for the field.
Listen to the pod on your podcast platform of choice, visit our YouTube channel for a multi language videocast and click on the link below to read the paper for FREE!
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"Where’s the Evidence? Challenging Therapists to Stop Legitimizing Dynamic Movement Intervention and Cuevas Medek Exerci...
12/10/2025

"Where’s the Evidence? Challenging Therapists to Stop Legitimizing Dynamic Movement Intervention and Cuevas Medek Exercises".
This phenomenal paper is the collaborative result of work from the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia. With giants of the field, it is an all-star line up speaking about the importance of following the evidence. And best of all, the paper is open-access and FREE!
Today we chat with 5 of the authors of the paper - to bring clarity to this topic, to show where the science is pointing, with influential and highly respected members of the European (EACD), American (AACPDM) and Oceania (formerly AusACPDM) academies.
We're advocating for giving health professionals and families the ability to make an informed decision on DMI and CME by providing the current state of the evidence.
Check out today's podcast (it's available on YouTube in multi-language as well as on all good audio-podcast platforms) and read the paper at the link below!
https://journals.lww.com/pedpt/fulltext/9900/where_s_the_evidence__challenging_therapists_to.204.aspx

06/10/2025

Another great episode is out now!!

This week, we had the pleasure of speaking with Dr Karina Zapata - a pediatric physical therapist and researcher at Scottish Rite for Children in Dallas, TX. Her work blends clinical care with research on functional mobility in children with complex conditions like spina bifida.

Her article titled : 6 minute walk test reference values in ambulatory children with myelomeningocele, was published recently on Developmental Medicine Child Neurology.

This was a fantastic discussion, a masterclass on assessment in children with spina bifida.

Don’t forget to register for ResearchWorks.academy to check out the outcome measures hub. Not only have we already included measures from this paper but there’s is so much more!

Enjoy!

28/09/2025

This week we catch up with the incredible Dr Colleen Peyton from Northwestern University !
We're discussing her paper: Trajectories of Fidgety Movements in Infants with and without medical complexity.
It's another American Academy for Cerebral Palsy & Developmental Medicine (AACPDM) 2025 sneak peak!
A sneak peek at an incredible paper to be presented at AACPDM 2025 in New Orleans! This paper is a contender for the AACPDM’s highest abstract honour - the Gayle G Arnold Award!
Join us for a fabulous interview discussing an amazing paper - and discovering the differences that unite Americans 🇺🇸 and Australians 🇦🇺 ....hint... it's not vegemite! 😉
Visit www.researchworks.net for a full episode by episode run down over the seasons and visit www.researchworks.academy for an interactive resource for clinicians and researchers - it's FREE!

22/09/2025

Let's talk about the elephant in the room! 🐘
Today, a special communication was published in the journal: Pediatric Physical Therapy. The great news is that is open access and available for anyone to read right now - for FREE!
This article: "Where’s the Evidence? Challenging Therapists to Stop Legitimizing Dynamic Movement Intervention and Cuevas Medek Exercises" is the result of an international collaborative effort to challenge therapists to stop legitimizing non evidence-based interventions.
Here, the evidence is presented and is discussed in a way that has never been done before.
Ultimately, a balanced and informed decision is a good decision and that is all that the authors wish to be able to contribute into this space.
The authors are leaders of their field and include:
Dr Ginny Paleg, Dr Dayna Pool, Professor Álvaro Hidalgo-Robles, Associate Professor David Frumberg, Clinical Assistant Professor Roslyn Livingstone and Professor Diane Damiano.
The release of this paper in an open access/FREE format, allows families and clinicians to understand where the evidence points to, the consensus of the research community and give them the opportunity to make an informed decision.
Click on the link in below to read the article (for FREE!)
https://journals.lww.com/pedpt/fulltext/9900/where_s_the_evidence__challenging_therapists_to.204.aspx

20/09/2025

Have you heard of vibration therapy? What's the evidence?
Join us on this week's episode as we talk to Dr Christopher Modlesky about his research titled: "Effect of high-frequency, low magnitude vibration on physical activity and physical function in children with cerebral palsy: a randomised controlled trial."
Dr. Christopher Modlesky is the Athletic Association Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Georgia He earned his PhD in Exercise Science from UGA in 2002. Leading the Neuromusculoskeletal Health Laboratory, his research focuses on bone and muscle health in children with movement disorders, such as cerebral palsy, utilising MRI and vibration therapy to investigate physical activity interventions and mitigate long-term musculoskeletal deficits.
The scientific merit of this study has been recognised by being a finalist for the Gayle G Arnold award at the upcoming American Academy for Cerebral Palsy & Developmental Medicine (AACPDM) conference in New Orleans.
Listen to the pod on your favourite audio podcast platform of choice (Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more!) or check out the video-cast on our YouTube channel!
You can even select the language of your choice in the settings of the video! Spanish? 🇪🇸 ¡No hay problema! French? 🇫🇷 Pas de problème !, Japanese? 🇯🇵 問題ない！ 😉
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On today's pod we catch up with Dr Arianna Trionfo MD - to discuss her team's work which is up for the highest abstract ...
14/09/2025

On today's pod we catch up with Dr Arianna Trionfo MD - to discuss her team's work which is up for the highest abstract honour at the upcoming American Academy for Cerebral Palsy & Developmental Medicine (AACPDM) New Orleans Conference - the Gayle G Arnold Award.
Her paper is titled "The effect of immediate weight bearing after planovalgus foot reconstruction in ambulatory children with cerebral palsy".
This paper is part of a larger body of work - reporting on the outcomes from orthopaedic intervention at Nemours KidsHealth in Delaware. This interview is not only masterclass from a wonderful communicator, clinician and researcher, it is an exciting preview into the hot topics and educational sessions that will be featured at the conference this year.
Listen to the pod on your favourite audio podcast platform of choice (Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more!) or check out the video-cast on our YouTube channel!
You can even select the language of your choice in the settings of the video! Spanish? 🇪🇸 ¡No hay problema! French? 🇫🇷 Pas de problème !, Japanese? 🇯🇵 問題ない！ 😉
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