Article

Interest in the use of musculoskeletal ultrasonography in the field of
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation has increased significantly over recent
years. In order to determine to what extent this growing interest among Physical
and Rehabilitation Medicine physicians is resulting in publications, we reviewed
the trend in publications by physiatrists on musculoskeletal ultrasonography.
METHODS: We searched retrospectively for all papers indexed in Science Citation
Index-Expanded and Index Medicus in which "rehabilitation medicine" was addressed
as at least one of the authors' affiliations (up to 2011). All papers were
examined individually for the authors' affiliations, document types, publication
years, countries, and journal categories. RESULTS: A total of 171 papers was
included in the study. After 2004, there appears to be a significant amount of
increase in the number of publications. USA, Turkey, Taiwan and South Korea were
the leading countries in which physiatrists carry out research and publish papers
on musculoskeletal ultrasonography. The top 5 journal categories in which these
papers were published were: Rehabilitation (44.3%), Orthopaedics (14.1%),
Radiology (10.7%), Neurology (8.1%) and Rheumatology (6.7%). CONCLUSION: The
number of scientific publications by physiatrists about musculoskeletal
ultrasonography is increasing in parallel with the interest regarding its routine
use in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation clinics.

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