Ankara Training and Research Hospital Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Ankara, Turkey.
J Rehabil Med. 2011 Jul;43(8):681-3. doi: 10.2340/16501977-0834.
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.
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.
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%).
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.
近年来，物理医学与康复领域对肌肉骨骼超声的兴趣显著增加。为了确定物理医学与康复医师日益增长的兴趣在多大程度上导致了出版物的出现，我们回顾了物理治疗师在肌肉骨骼超声方面的出版物趋势。
我们回溯性地在科学引文索引扩展版和医学索引中搜索了所有索引的论文，其中“康复医学”至少是作者之一的机构（截至 2011 年）。所有论文都单独检查了作者的所属机构、文献类型、出版年份、国家和期刊类别。
共有 171 篇论文纳入研究。2004 年后，出版物数量似乎明显增加。美国、土耳其、中国台湾和韩国是物理治疗师开展肌肉骨骼超声研究和发表论文的主要国家。这些论文发表的前 5 个期刊类别是：康复（44.3%）、骨科（14.1%）、放射学（10.7%）、神经病学（8.1%）和风湿病学（6.7%）。
随着肌肉骨骼超声在物理医学与康复诊所常规应用的兴趣增加，物理治疗师关于肌肉骨骼超声的科学出版物数量也在增加。
