Tag: clinical skills
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Flipping the Script on Exercise Prescription: Why & Where We Fall Short
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been in a conversation with a classmate or colleague or online about how you feel like you never really learned exercise prescription in PT school? Now, I find this to be more true with DPTs versus PTAs. Regardless if you’re a DPT or a PTA, if your hand is…
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Research Highlight: Application of “the PUSH Strategy”
This research highlight is for all my neuro nerds. I personally love working with the neuro population. They’re often some of my most motivated patients and it’s always fun to see their functional progress. No matter what your comfort or experience level, you’ve likely encountered a post-CVA patient with pushers syndrome. I think many of…
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4 Tips for Creating HEPs Your Patients Will Actually Do
It’s probably our biggest pet peeve as PTs . . . patients not doing their HEP. We’ve all been there. Patient comes into the clinic and says they didn’t do it and funny enough they still have pain! Or even worse they said they did it, but you can tell they are 100% lying. Unfortunately…
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Why Evidence Based Practice Isn’t that Easy (and what to do about it)
*This post may contain affiliate links, which means I’ll receive a commission if you purchase through my links, at no extra cost to you.* I think we’d all agree evidence based practice (EBP) is important in the physical therapy profession. This last November the APTA John Maley lecturer, Stacy Dusing, even called for the need…