ABPTRFE Policies Continue to Threaten Residency and Fellowship Programs –...
CSM 2019 was bustling with more than 16,500 PTs, PTAs and students. The Walter E. Washington Convention Center was packed with PT professionals wanting to progress their careers through educational...
View ArticleEudaimonia – Value, Purpose, Joy
We look back at the course of our life and see a linear pathway; but we are faced with a series of multiple proverbial forks in the road when attempting to look forward. The choice we make at any given...
View ArticleThe Religion of Workism in Healthcare – Is it Making Us Miserable?
A couple of weeks ago I was combing through my Twitter feed and came across a post by Kenny Venere that caught my eye. The link in his tweet brought me to this article in The Atlantic titled,...
View ArticleAdvice to Students – 4 Things to Consider When Entering the Clinic
It’s strange to think that I haven’t been a student since 2011. I mean, “we’re always students”, but of course I’m referring to being in PT school. There are things I wish I would have known back then,...
View ArticleA Little Love for Case Reports
Peer reviewed case reports have been a common study design published in the medical literature. Although they are at the lower end of the levels of evidence pyramid, I still have gotten valuable...
View ArticleCommitting to a Deeper Understanding
We live and practice in a distracted world full of a few characters, short sound bites, highlight videos, and superficial conversations. It requires intentional and consistent effort to change our...
View ArticleStop Babysitting Your Patients!
Let me paint the picture for you. There is a patient who is suffering from persistent lateral elbow pain. He has had several injections to ease his pain. None have really helped. Now he is out of...
View ArticleI Would Rather Have a Day but 15 Minutes Will Do
Summer is officially here this week, along with memories of those summer vacations and visions of future quests into the wild. With that in mind, we need some help if our vacation is not on the...
View ArticleA Male PT Going Through a Pelvic Health Program: Thoughts and Reflections.
Over the past year and a half I’ve learned a lot about pelvic health through Evidence in Motion’s Pelvic Health Certificate program. I will describe my journey with pelvic health, what fascinates me...
View ArticleThe Next-Best-Hardest-Thing
When is the last time you completed a “next-best-hardest-thing” you’ve undertaken? A thing that was self-induced, harder than what you have done before in some important realm in your life, and that...
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