I enjoyed the video below posted by the Australian Physical Therapy Association. I can relate to the waiting room full of a multi-generational family. The goal of physical therapy is to provide help for patients of all different ages and with different problems. This should keep your dogs happy!! [embedplusvideo height=”359″ width=”590″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/11PH0pC” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/CWDzA0pnaAY?fs=1″ […]
How much is enough?
One of the things that I talk about in the clinic alot is the therapeutic dosage of exercise. So, what do I mean by that? The term “therapeutic dose” is from the pharmocology world. When a medication is administered if too little medicine will have no effect. If too much is medicine is used, then […]
What to expect with a physical therapy evaluation
I recently saw an article by a physical therapist named Erson Religioso, DPT regarding what a physical therapy evaluation should be (link). He outlines what the setting, time frame and what the patient should experience. I couldn’t agree more with his article and I think it is important for patients to have expectations regarding when […]
An excellent post regarding pain medication
A colleague of mine Gage Permar, DPT recently posted an excellent blog post about pain medication and some of the unintended consequences. Some of the statistics that he cites are truly frightening. The levels of gastrointestinal complications are especially frightening. Gage alludes to an upcoming post in which he will lay out some alternative to pain meds. […]
Healthcare Spending & Physical Therapy
I would like to talk about the cost of physical therapy at both the individual level and and globally for the health care system. In the USA we live in a country where health care cost are out of control and we are spending more at the individual level. Between 2000 and 2010 the average […]
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