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6 Benefits of Running a Home-Visit Therapy Practice

There are numerous benefits to not being a brick-and-mortar clinic and providing house calls. Here’s a small sample of them.

from WebPT

What if I told you there’s a physical therapy practice model that requires minimal investment, has a low operating cost, and is practically burnout-proof? What if I added that this model provides a steady flow of new clients and is well poised to meet the rehab needs of the Baby Boomer generation? It would almost be too good to be true, right? Well, it’s real.

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Read Your Patients’ Minds

Creating a patient journey map can be one way to put yourself in your patient’s minds in order to create a better patient experience.

from Evidence in Motion

There are times when I think it would be helpful to know what my patients are thinking and feeling. I do my best to motivate interested prospects to make an appointment or patients to implement their plan of care. Too often I just don’t seem to connect with them and wonder what they’re thinking.

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Back for the Attack

The right technology in the PT gym can help successfully prepare clients of all kinds to get back to their regular lives safely.

from Physical Therapy Products

Rehab can seem like a battle of attrition for clients who may feel the need to summon equal parts of tenacity, focus, and faith in their physical therapist to push through a months-long program. Along that continuum clients are likely to spend time on some of the workhorse technologies of the PT gym. One such well-known technology is the treadmill. Mention that universal piece of workout and rehab equipment, and watch eyes roll at the thought of dull sessions made tolerable only by tunes and TV reruns. Treadmill technologies have been updated, however, to offer exceptional versatility and provide activity sessions that leverage modern design features. Among those features are self-powered capabilities, a weighted sled, resistance parachute, and harness system all in one space-efficient package.

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Treating Pain: It is Much More Than “This” vs. “That”

Persistent pain is complex and it is very unlikely that one magic bullet treatment is going to be the sole key to successful outcomes.

from Evidence in Motion

Trying to follow the evidence to determine the best intervention for your patients can be a challenge, especially when it comes to persistent pain. It can be a challenge when you read well-done reviews that seem to have slightly opposite conclusions.

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Use Built-in Apps to Support Life Skills

Encourage clients to use apps already available on their mobile devices for assistance with job and vocational demands.

from ASHA Leader

Clients’ mobile devices can scaffold a number of important life skills related to maintaining a job, including setting an alarm and managing a sleep schedule through the device clock and associated alerts. Though our young students often know how to download apps and play games, it’s important to assess how well they can use these features and to provide practice and training where they need it.

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6 Bits of Inspiration from Ascend 2017

Here are a few key takeaways from this year’s Ascend conference, which therapy professionals can put into action whether or not they attended this past weekend.

from WebPT

The overarching theme of Ascend 2017—the fourth-annual installment of rehab therapy’s premier business summit—was, quite simply, “Think big.” But, based on what we learned from our esteemed group of speakers over the course of two inspiration-filled days in Washington, DC, a more accurate tagline for this year’s conference might have been, “Think differently.”

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Happy National Physical Therapy Month!

October is the time to recognize the impact PTs and PTAs have on their patients’ lives and in their communities.

October is National Physical Therapy Month, as it has been dubbed by the American Physical Therapy Association, and the month serves as a time to recognize the impact PTs and PTAs have on their patients’ lives and in their communities.

One way to celebrate is by participating in the Global PT Day of Service on October 14th. Founded two years ago by a team of passionate PTs, PTDOS has seen over 8,000 PT and PTA volunteers make a difference across 42 countries around the globe. PTDOS encourages PTs and PTAs to give back to their communities by working in a pro bono physical therapy clinic, serving in a soup kitchen, cleaning up a community garden, or via any other means that contributes to the greater good.

PTs and PTAs, will you take the pledge to give back this year? If so, click here to pledge to serve.

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The Mind Has It

Exploring the merits of cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques, namely the act of mindfulness, in your therapy practice.

from Evidence in Motion

I went to PT school way back in the Dark Ages, when everything was extremely heavily pathoanatomically based and while we talked about the biopsychosocial model, no one was particularly clear on how to implement it. However, I think most of us are well aware of the advances we have seen in pain sciences and the impact of the –psycho- piece of that, and hopefully more of us are clearer on how to implement it, at least with our patients with chronic pain. Cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques have become a huge part of my practice (which is largely patients with chronic pain, many of whom have some pelvic floor component-though not all), far more than I would have ever thought back in PT school when I was busily memorizing information about upslips, downslips, and counternutations!

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Best Ways to Survive as a Travel SLP

Are you an SLP who’s dreading traveling from building to building or house to house each day? Here are some helpful tips to survive it.

from Speech Time Fun

Now that kids have gone back to school, many SLPs find themselves split between two or even three or four buildings. Some SLPs travel from house to house if you work with early intervention. It is a very common thing. Yet, many struggle to stay organized, calm, prepared, and confident. Keep reading to see how I have survived in the past and what I would do if faced with the challenge again.

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The Real Story About Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Research shows that the condition is a true physiological disease. Here’s what to look for, and how PTs are helping those who have it.

from PT in Motion

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has come a long way since the 1980s, when it was widely dismissed as “yuppie flu” and was suspected by many health care providers of being a psychological rather than a physiological condition.

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