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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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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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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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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,...
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...
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...
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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 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...
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 ArticleMeasuring 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 ArticleIt’s all in the incentives
An incentive is something that motivates an individual to perform an action. And, that something could be anything. Meet the omnipresent influencer of behavior. Frequently, incentive is understood to...
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Physical Therapists in the ICU: ACTION for #ICUrehab #AcutePT
If immobility is pathology, then movement is medicine. But, now that the rationale is present, how is action initiated? Understanding the current literature in regards to mobility and physical...
View ArticlePhysical Therapists in the ICU: Rationale for #ICUrehab
For 3 weeks I was held in a room, I was tied to the bed if I tried to get away. I couldn’t talk; I couldn’t eat; I was not allowed to sleep; Groups of people would enter the room and look at me and...
View ArticleData Quality: Garbage In = Garbage Out
Measuring and objectifying observations and phenomena. Numbers. Data. These are the cornerstones of analytics. The presentation and appearance of (apparent) objectivity. Whether in research, health...
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Precision in Language
Language is obviously important as words are the basis of explicit communication. As is such, specificity in language and word definitions is vital to interaction. But also, specificity in meaning is...
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Metacognition, Critical Thinking, and Science Based Practice #DPTstudent
Metacognition can be considered a synonym for reflection in applied learning theory. However, metacognition is a very complex phenomenon. It refers to the cognitive control and monitoring of all sorts...
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The Ultimate Log ‘N Blog for PT app!
I wish I had this newly released app last week during CSM 2013! Moves by Protogeo Oy, brings a sweet new movement tracker to the field of personal data monitoring. With no need to purchase a new...
View Article#AcutePT helps ICU save $818,000 per year!
In a recent post So, you think you can walk? I outlined some of the evidence, rationale, logic, and decision making involved in acute care physical therapist practice. I discussed the important of...
View ArticleSo, you think you can walk? #AcutePT
All you do is walk people! Are you going to walk Mrs. Smith? Are you getting Mr. Johnson up? You don’t have to think in acute care! In my opinion, the role of the physical therapist in acute care...
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If You’re Going, You Might As Well Get There
Sometimes, it’s pure and simple logic that prevails as the best solution to something. This was the case in an important new study published ahead of print in Spine. You may have seen the presser...
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