Edward Mathis, PT, DPT is a physical therapist with at Dickinson County Healthcare System, a rural community hospital in Iron Mountain, Michigan. He practices primarily in the acute care while …
Featured Clinician: Jason R. Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD
Jason Falvey is a PhD trained clinician-scientist who studies post-acute and long-term care for older adults. He has been a physical therapist for 10 years, working mostly in the home …
Featured Clinician: José A. Menéndez Bermúdez
José A. Menéndez Bermúdez. I’m a 3rd year student from the School of Health Professions, from the University of Puerto Rico-Medical Science Campus. I started to achieve my goal of …
Featured Clinician: Shelly Prosko
Shelly Prosko, PT, C-IAYT Shelly is a physical therapist, yoga therapist, educator, author and pioneer of PhysioYoga with over 20 years of experience integrating yoga into physical therapy within a …
Featured Clinician: Megan O. Doyle
Today we welcome an allied occupational therapy clinician. #BetterTogether Megan O. Doyle is an occupational therapist who has practiced in a variety of healthcare settings, currently working for St. Luke’s …
Featured Clinician: Lindsay Durand
Lindsay Durand is currently a second-year physical therapy student at Washington University in St. Louis. She received her B.S. in exercise science from Creighton University with minors in mathematics and …
Featured Clinician: Bryan Stewart
Bryan Stewart, PT, DPT, OCS, Clinic Director Dr. Stewart has been in practice for over 12+ years, over the past 5 years in a clinic director role and managing partner …
Featured Clinician: Karen Litzy
Today we share PhysicalTherapist.com’s 2nd featured clinician micro-column post. Just for those of you who may have missed our inaugural post, we began this series at the special request of …
Featured Clinician: Tami Struessel
Here at PhysicalTherapist.com, at the special request of a patient advocate to the Physical Therapy profession — we are starting a new micro-column of featured clinicians as a movement in …
The Impact of Chronic Disease – Part 1
In 2005, 133 million Americans were living with at least one chronic condition and this this number is expected to grow to 157 million by 2020. While 63 million people …
You can’t Out-Exercise a Bad Diet
There can be no doubt that physical exercise is one of the best single activities that we can do to improve our health. All of the latest research on the …
Don’t Just Sit There!
Don’t Just Sit There! Since the original 1956 research of the London transport system investigating the difference in cardiac episodes between bus drivers and the conductors on the buses, we …
The Science Of Change
The Science of Change The health benefits of good food choices and exercise are abundant…but how do these changes occur in the body…and more importantly how do they help improve …
Low grade Inflammation and Your Patient
Low grade Inflammation and Your Patient There is an ongoing battle within many of us between the pro inflammatory and oxidative processes versus the anti-inflammatory and antioxidant processes. Inflammation is …
The Missing Ingredient in Your Weight Loss and Longevity Plan
The Missing Ingredient in Your Weight Loss and Longevity Plan What is the missing link that’s been shown to be one of the secrets to weight loss and disease prevention…F …
Addressing the Diabetes Epidemic
Estimates by U.S. government are that two out of every five Americans will develop type 2 diabetes. This increases the lifetime risk of type 2 diabetes to 40 percent for …
Why Exercise?
As physical therapists from time to time we may be confronted by a patient who is resistant to the idea of being involved with exercise. When those times occur I …
If Exercise Were A Pill
It is ironic that in today’s high-tech health-care world that something as simple as exercise can create measurable health benefits. If you were told that a certain pill could boost …
Progress or Plateaus
So often we see such great progress as we begin our weight loss program, pushing onward to our goal at a jackrabbit pace, only to be met with a discouraging …
Physical Therapy Scholarship Fund
Today’s post comes from Colleen Rapp, a patient advocate for Physical Therapy. We are pleased to share the concern video from this fundraiser. If you feel compelled to give, please …
Insurers Will Have a Big Say in the Future of Telehealth Services
Originally posted via JobsTherapy.com Content Staff. The coronavirus pandemic left physical therapists and occupational therapists with little choice but to embrace telehealth technology, but just how much of that sticks …
How to Answer, “What Can You Do for Us” in a Job Interview
Today’s article comes from Matt Huey, PT, Dip MDT, FAAOMPT. You can connect with Dr. Huey via Instagram. The ill-fated job interview One story I like to share is my …
Featured Clinician: Gabby Mace
Gabby Mace is currently in her 3rd and final year of physical therapy school at High Point University. Before grad school, she received her B.S. in Exercise Science at College …
APTA House of Delegates Sets Priorities for PT Industry
Originally posted by JobsTherapy.com Content Staff. The need to establish best practices for using telehealth technology and for more collaboration with patients’ mental-health specialists were among the many issues discussed …
Featured Clinician: Tianna Meriage-Reiter
Tianna is a physical therapist, yoga therapist and health coach with over 15 years of experience helping humans with persistent pain and all the subsequent challenges that might come from …
PT’s Role with Post-intensive Care Syndrome
This articles comes to us from the JobsTherapy.com Content Staff. PTs Key in Addressing PICS in COVID-19 Survivors With thousands of Americans leaving intensive-care units after brutal bouts with COVID-19, …
Featured Clinician: Jerry Durham
Jerry Durham is nationally known speaker, author and coach with a singular passion for leveraging the entire practice team towards improved patient outcomes while boosting the practice bottom line. A …
Featured Clinician: Stephanie Weyrauch
Dr. Stephanie Weyrauch is employed as a physical therapist at Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Centers in Orange, Connecticut. She received her Doctorate in Physical Therapy and Master of Science in Clinical …
How to Get Physical Therapy in the Middle of a Pandemic
Originally posted by Shoshannah Buxbaum via Consumer Reports Expect video sessions, uncrowded waiting rooms, masks, and diligent disinfecting Back in March, Anne van Hemmen—who had become partially paralyzed from a …