Total Trainer

🚨We are delighted to share our latest contribution. Thanks you very much team for all of the outstanding work done on this project.

🗣️Key messages

🚨Our findings indicate that velocity-based resistance training (VB-RT) reviews often have serious methodological limitations, and practitioners, including physiotherapists, doctors, athletes, and individuals engaged in recreational resistance training, should be cautious when interpreting and implementing their results.

🚨🚨These reviews may not be relied on to provide an accurate and comprehensive summary of the available studies addressing the question of interest.

🚨Moderate to high overlapping suggests unnecessary duplication of research.

🚨There was little to no difference between the effectiveness of VB-RT and PB-RT in performance (e.g., strength, jump, power, and change of direction) and health outcomes domains (e.g., functionality, mobility). Very low to low certainty of the evidence from 3 reviews.

😁 We are delighted to share our latest contribution.

👨‍💻 This overview investigated the benefits and harms of different exercise modalities on blood pressure in adults.

🚨 Only 8% (out of 217) were rated as high confidence in their results (“high-quality systematic reviews”) and were included. However, some of them still have methodological flaws, which may also diminish confidence in the results of these reviews.

🚨 We included and analyzed eighteen reviews, comprising 15 comparisons, 352 RCTs, and 20,518 adults in total.

🚨 Overall, the evidence base of this overview was of very low to low certainty. In other words, the true effect is likely to be substantially different from the reported effect estimates in the overview.

🚨 However, some exercise modalities (any aerobic training, combined training, and isometric resistance training) probably clinically reduce SBP and DBP in participants aged 50 to 80 years with a wide variety of diagnoses (e.g., type II diabetes, HBP, renal disease, obesity, coronary disease, and acute myocardial infarction).

🚨 The included reviews provided incomplete information on how the exercise training interventions were implemented, limiting the transferability of our findings into practice.

🚨 Reviews and RCTs reported scarce safe data, and the safety of these interventions on this population is uncertain.

🚨 The editorial process lasted two years, and our systematic literature search is now out of date. Bear this in mind if you intend to use our findings.

Access the full article here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02640414.2025.2549862

🚨Delighted to share our latest scoping review🚨

🎯This review aimed to identify the available scientific evidence about the Pediatric Assessment Triangle (PAT) and its use by Emergency medical services.

🔎Our main findings suggested that there is a growing volume of evidence on the use of the PAT to assess pediatric emergency patients, some of which might be amenable to a systematic review.

🔎We’ve identified crucial research gaps that could shape the direction of future studies, particularly regarding the psychometric properties of the PAT.

🔎The simplicity and accuracy of the tool should be considered in addressing the current healthcare shortages and overcrowding in emergency services.

🇳🇴🇦🇷🇨🇦🇬🇧🇨🇴 It has been a pleasure to collaborate with this amazing team

📜https://bmcemergmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12873-024-01068-w