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Leveraging Technology V: Beyond RSS to Engagement
This is the 5th in a series of posts investigating how to leverage technology: RSS and Web2.0 Google Reader Selection of Content Blog Reviews In the previous blog posts I have outlined how information...
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Leveraging Technology VI: Case Example: ACL Injury “Prevention”
Recently, I stumbled upon a website post via Twitter: Original Tweet I absolutely love the basis and intent of the tweet! Female athletes exhibit increased incidence of non-contact anterior cruciate...
View ArticleSI Joint Mechanics in Manual Therapy: Relevance, Please?
In a separate post Publishing in Science: Are Industry Standards Serving Researchers, Clinicians and Science? Jason Silvernail and I outline some of the perceived cons of the current publishing...
View ArticlePublishing in Science: Are Industry Standards Serving Researchers,...
Recently, @JasonSilvernail and I wrote a letter to the editor of the journal Manual Therapy entitled Innominate 3D Motion Modeling: Biomechanically Interesting, but Clinically Irrelevant. The article...
View Article500 Word Letter to the Editor? $31.50…
…real scientific and professional discussion? Priceless.* *And free In a previous post, Publishing in Science: Are Industry Standards Serving Researchers, Clinicians, and Science?, @JasonSilvernail and...
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Phrase of the Day: Prospective Surveillance
Recently, the open-access journal, Cancer, included a special issue: Supplement: A Prospective Surveillance Model for Rehabilitation for Women With Breast Cancer. This model has been described by...
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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...
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...
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...
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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...
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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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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...
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...
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...
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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 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...
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 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...
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