#TopTipsTuesday

Issue 299, 21 July 2026

There's something quietly reassuring in the idea that the slower road is the faster one. This week leans into that, from research on handwriting and brain connectivity to why your patients might be moving less than you'd expect. Worth taking your time over, which is rather the point.💜

 

Recommended research 🔍

Exercise-based interventions for smoking cessation: A systematic review and meta-analysis finds exercise to be a promising smoking cessation intervention (scroll down to bottom of article for video summary)

Est. reading time: 28 minutes | Read Now

 

Video you can use 🎥

⭐️ NERVE GLIDES ⭐️ is a lovely demonstration of some common upper limb nerve glides

 

Perspective to ponder 🔍

Your GLP-1 Patients Are Moving Less, Not More — Here's What the 2026 Data Means for Your Plan of Care suggests an adverse effect on strength, endurance and "get-up-and-go"

Est. reading time: 6 minutes | Read Now

 

Article you can share with your patients 👍

Barbells vs Dumbbells vs Machines – which is better? briefly summarises the strengths and limitations of each

Est. reading time: 2 minutes | Read Now

 

Social post to learn from 🤓

Handwriting not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity gives a perspective on some little known research on the topic

Est. reading time: <2 minutes | Read Now

 

The Latest from Physiopedia 🤩 

What a recreation therapist can teach us about wheelchairs on a topic that few physiotherapists and occupational therapists get formal training in

Est. reading time: 3 minutes | Read Now

 

AI learning moment 🧠 

Ready-to-use AI prompt for research "Help me to learn the different anatomy and functions of the major upper limb nerves"

Prompt optimised for working with the Physiopedia AI Assistant (PAI)

 
The Physiopedia Team
 
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