Measuring Outcomes, Outcome Measures, and Treatment Effects
Measuring outcomes, treatment efficacy, and treatment effectiveness are separate yet interacting constructs. And, it’s more than semantics. Clinically, measuring outcomes masquerades as simple while...
View ArticleShould we all do the same thing? Perceivable vs. Conceptual Practice Variation
Conceptual variation is more damaging, and a bigger issue, than perceivable, apparent practice variation. Because of the multi-faceted nature of the mechanisms of effect in physical therapy treatments,...
View ArticleAssessing and Integrating the Evidence
Are we teaching it backwards? Without understanding premise or argument validity in relation to research, an individual article analyses may be useless. A study may be flawed on premise alone even with...
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Beyond Weakness & Function: Integrating the Bio-Psycho-Social to Physical...
The short and long term sequelae of critical care span body systems and the international classification of function and disability (ICF) framework domains. Whether assessed physiologically and...
View ArticleWhat Scientific Ideas are Ready for Retirement?
Every year Edge poses a question and subsequently curates responses from a variety of intellectuals. The result is a fascinating compilation of short essays on a range of ideas orbiting around a...
View ArticleWhat are the Issues with Therapeutic or Trigger Point Dry Needling? 9...
Dry needling continues to garner increasing popularity within physical therapy. And, the focus is not just clinical, a pubmed search for “physical therapy” and “dry needling” illustrates an 8 fold...
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Dr. Manual Therapy, Or How I Came to Stop Worrying and Love the Placebo
With a central theme based on cinema, and a message potentially confused as a doomsday device for manual therapy, Dr. Joel Bialosky’s (along with Drs. Bishop and Penza) latest commentary in JOSPT,...
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Where #GetPT1st Doesn’t Work: The Bottom Line
Used with permission from The Wall Street Journal, WSJ.com. Copyright 2007 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. This year marks this image’s 10th birthday. It has been shared, tweeted,...
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Whiplash: JOSPT Special Issues Highlight the Challenges Facing Clinicians,...
The Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy (JOSPT) recently released a special issue on the topic of whiplash-associated disorders (WAD). This July 2017 publication followed up on the...
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4 Take Home Points from Ascend 2017
WebPT’s 4th annual Ascend Conference took place in Washington, D.C. the weekend of September 29th. Rehab therapists from around the world attended business discussions on increasing revenue, outcomes,...
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