Last Monday, there was an executive order signed that called for more transparency of pricing that hospitals charge for services. You can read about it here if you missed the news. The order is said to help create more awareness and put patients in the driver’s seat when choosing where to have their care. While I think it is…
Stop Babysitting Your Patients!
Let me paint the picture for you.
There is a patient who is suffering from persistent lateral elbow pain. He has had several injections to ease his pain. None have really helped. Now he is out of work due to the pain.
He was told to go see a physical therapist to have this condition addressed.
Awesome, right?
Well…not…
A Little Love for Case Reports
Peer reviewed case reports have been a common study design published in the medical literature. Although they are at the lower end of the levels of evidence pyramid, I still have gotten valuable information from a well written, peer reviewed case report.
As seen in the level of evidence pyramid, we often put high value on randomized control trials…
The Religion of Workism in Healthcare – Is it Making Us Miserable?
A couple of weeks ago I was combing through my Twitter feed and came across a post by Kenny Venere that caught my eye.
The link in his tweet brought me to this article in The Atlantic titled, “Workism is Making Americans Miserable.” The article goes through several reasons why Americans have made Workism their religion.
After reading this…
ABPTRFE Policies Continue to Threaten Residency and Fellowship Programs – Will the APTA Do Something?
CSM 2019 was bustling with more than 16,500 PTs, PTAs and students. The Walter E. Washington Convention Center was packed with PT professionals wanting to progress their careers through educational sessions, networking and Academy/Section events. The halls were filled with conversations regarding our profession and there was one that seemed to be the loudest: the American Board of…
Will Residency and Fellowship Programs Survive?
The Problem
As many of you may know, there have been several changes in the policies that ABPTRFE have put into place over the past year. I, along with many other leaders within the post-professional world, have recently been outspoken on some of these issues. In summary, ABPTRE now has the following policies:
Item 13.4 “Change in Curriculum…
To Catch a Predator – PT Version
Halloween has come and past, however it seems that there is still a “spookiness” in the air. Word on the street is that manual therapy can raise the dead.
For those that have seen the recent issue of JOSPT probably have seen the editorial published by our friends Chad Cook, Josh Cleland and Paul Mintken. The title: “Manual Therapy Cures…
Annual Performance Reviews Are a Waste of Time
Annual performance reviews. We have all experienced them at some point. The seemingly endless amount of paperwork where you and your superior have to use some sort of scale to quantify your effectiveness in the work place. This has had me thinking for years: Are these annual performance reviews effective? Are they worth the time and effort?
Are Annual…
Pain Education in an Acute Care Setting – A Patient Story to Read!
This Feature Friday post is one of my favorites. It is a patient story involving the application of pain neuroscience education in an acute care setting written to ISPI faculty member Kory Zimney. Please take a read – it will brighten up your Friday. Remember, what we do as PTs is important and can make a difference in someone’s life…
Primary Care Specialty in PT? Is Now the Time?
Primary Care.
It is a phrase often heard within the medical field, but is now getting more buzz within physical therapy. With the trending shortage in physician primary care, is this the time to develop a specialty practice within physical therapy?
Over the past year or so, I have had the privilege to work with an outstanding group of individuals…