Tag: clinical skills
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The Top 5 Posts of 2025
Happy New Year everyone! Hope everyone had a great holiday season and was able to take some much deserved time off. For returning readers, welcome back to The PT Page. For new readers, welcome! 2026 is here and I thought we’d get back in to the swing of things by looking at some of the…
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Words Matter: Using Safe Patient Language to Stop Catastrophizing
If I had a dollar for every time I heard a patient say “the doctor said I’m bone on bone” I could’ve paid off my student loan debt by now. You probably could have too. These types of patients are usually not our favorite. They typically carry a sense of hopelessness about their rehab potential…
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Understanding the Importance of Cross-Training for Physical Therapists
We’ve all heard of cross-training right? Perhaps you’ve educated your patients about it – or even incorporated some cross-training into your own fitness routine. (I’m looking at you runners!). But have you ever considered cross-training when it comes to your physical therapy practice? As PTs, we typically find our niche over time. I see a…
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Research Highlight: Therex + Manual vs Therex Alone in Patients with Subacromial Shoulder Pain
Subacromial impingement has got to be at the top of the list of umbrella term diagnoses. It’s right up there next to patellofemoral pain syndrome. The PTs in this research highlight even think so. Subacromial shoulder pain is one of the most common shoulder diagnoses, so it’s a pretty great topic to look at for…
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The Top PT Podcasts
Everyone seems to be in their podcast era these days. Podcasts have become one of the top preferred forms of media over the last few years. More and more podcasts keep coming out too. There is pretty much a podcast for everything now. If you’re interested in something, somewhere there is a podcast about it…
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The Great Manual Therapy Divide
There’s a civil war raging among outpatient therapists. A classic “us” vs “them” storyline for the ages. . . Manual-based therapists vs exercise-based therapists. Yeah I am being a tad dramatic here, but the arguments on social media between these two groups ARE dramatic. Not sure when it happened, but using manual therapy in PT…
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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…