Attached is an interesting study recently published in JAMA confirming the commonly held notion that poor surgery outcomes are associated with the seeking of compensation.
John
Download compensation_status_and_surgery_outcome_jama_2005.pdf…
NIH Conference on the Biology of Manual Therapies
FYI to the group on this conference at NIH, just 35.00.
Conference on the Biology of Manual Therapies June 9-10, 2005 Natcher Conference Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
http://nccam.nih.gov/news/upcomingmeetings/manual-conference.htm
Follow the link for more details and the proposed agenda. Unfortunately, it looks as though only one PT is…
Chicago Tribune | Physical therapy schools ramp up for the future
Link: Chicago Tribune | Physical therapy schools ramp up for the future.
Physical therapy schools ramp up for the future
More students seek must-have doctoral degrees.
Very good article and promotion of physical therapy in Sunday’s Chicago Tribune. …
Musings about Clinical Prediction Rules
I have been reading with great interest the posts which I believe correctly identify many of the issues we have within our profession from a public policy and research standpoint (e.g. the "commoditization" of PT and problems created by the variability in practice). It is worth noting the great work that many of this blog’s…
More Cents on the Kominski study in Medical Care
If you take a public health perspective, I would generally agree that the data in this study (Download 00005650-200505000-00002.pdf) are at least a reasonable characterization of cost versus benefit (ignoring the argument that direct access PT would have resulted in considerably less cost, even if you presume the outcome would have been no different). I could even…
My 2 cents on the Kominski et al 2005 Med Care study.
Well, here we have yet another study that adds little, raises many questions and will probably be warmly embraced by health-care reimbursement agencies. Based on the conclusions of the study, the implication is that care provided by physical therapists could be eliminated without ill-effect and result in cost-savings. What are we to make of this…
neck RCT
Attached is a recent RCT in patients with neck pain assessing the benefits of manual therapy in addition to advice and exercise. The results generally showed no additional improvement over advice and exercise with manual therapy, although patients receiving manual therapy demonstrated higher satisfaction. These data conflict with several recent trials, the Hoving study in 2002 in particular. Perhaps the…
FRI paper
Some folks were interested in the paper on the Functional Rating Indexed that was
recently published in the European Spine Journal. It is attached here.
Let me know if you have any questions.
John
Download 15fri_eur_spine_j_2005.pdf…
Requested Spine article
Here is the Grotle article from Spine that was requested. This is my first post on the new ‘system’. I hope it works.
Do I win a prize for posting the first PDF?
Ben
Download grotleprognostic_lbp.pdf…
Prediction of Nonrecovery with Acute Low Back Pain
This particular avenue of communicating might be nice.
I do not have access to a lot of journals. Does anyone happen to have access to full text on this particular article?
Authors Grotle, Margreth; Brox, Jens I; Veierod, Merit B; Glomsrod, Bredo; Lonn, Jan H; Vollestad, Nina KTitle Clinical Course and Prognostic Factors in Acute Low Back Pain…