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Celebrate Physical Therapy Month by Promoting Safe Pain Management in Your Community
This October, celebrate National Physical Therapy Month in your practice by promoting physical therapy as a safe pain management technique in your community. national PHYSICAL THERAPY Month None of the individuals in your community want to live in pain. Unfortunately,...
Bundled Payments for Physical Therapy Practice
Bundled payments is a highly innovative payment model that is receiving an immense level of praise for controlling costs and optimizing patient outcomes. Learn how to make bundled payments work for your physical therapy practice and your patients. Making Bundled...
5 Things All Physical Therapists Should Know about Value-Based Care
Value-based care is a healthcare model where providers place a special emphasis on the health outcomes of their patients. In this brief guide, we will review what you should know – as a physical therapist – about this type of care. As physical therapists, we have an...
Changes in Value-Based Healthcare Prove Both Opportunistic and Challenging
Policies and payment systems associated with value-based healthcare are proving to be both beneficial and challenging for physical therapists throughout the nation. The act of aligning the processes and incentives in value-based healthcare among physical therapists is...
Expansion of Health Care Options for Veterans
Veterans Affairs Patients May Soon Receive Expansion of Health Care Options, But Without Health Net Federal According to recent announcements, the United States Congress is gearing towards an expansion of health care options for the nations’ Veterans; however, the...
Becoming a Physical Therapist
Becoming a physical therapist is challenging, yet highly rewarding career choice. You will have the chance to positively impact the psychological and physiological well-being of others. Physical therapists are a unique class of individuals that are highly educated in...
4 Simple Strategies to Succeed with a Value-Based Network
Physical therapists are now reaping rewards – in terms of profits and patient outcomes – by becoming involved in value-based network systems. Value-based networks offer care that acts as an alternative for the traditional fee-for-service reimbursement services. The...
Help Patients Overcome Low Back Pain
Combining Innovation and Direct Manipulation Help Patients Overcome Low Back Pain As a physical therapist, it is imperative to encourage patients to overcome low back pain through innovation and direct manipulation. In recent days, Good Morning America, WebMD, the...
Lumbar Disc Herniation – Guide for Physical Therapists to Help Patients
As a physical therapist, it is quite likely that you will see many patients suffering from lumbar disc herniation; therefore, it is of the highest importance that you know how to help these individuals. The discs within the spinal column play a highly crucial role in...
Leg Pain After Exercising. How Physical Therapists Can Help Patients.
Your patients may complain of leg pain after exercising. Three most common causes of exercise-induced leg pain include stress fracture, exertional compartment syndrome, and stress syndrome of the medial tibial. Here's what you can do to treat these ailments and stop...
Dry Needling in Physical Therapy Encouraged by Legislators
Physical therapist practitioners have a desire to expand their services to include a widely-popular pain alleviation technique that is currently limited to those that mainly practice acupuncture, dry needling. In recent months, those that specialize in physical...
Pediatric Vestibular Therapy Training
Pediatric vestibular therapy rehabilitation training will be offered to interested practitioners at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Library on the Anschutz Medical Campus on March 1st 2018. Many disruptions may occur in the vestibular system of the body....
Low Back Pain Sufferers Now to Receive Non-Surgical, Non-Opioid Treatments as First Step
In years past, most medical practitioners recommend prescribing opioids and spinal fusion surgery as the first course of action for individuals that suffer from low back pain. Now, this is quickly becoming a course of treatment of the past. “One patient got up and...
Judge Rules On Physical Therapists Performing Dry Needling
Boulder, CO January 9, 2018 The Colorado State Physical Therapy Board recently defeated a lawsuit filed by two acupuncture organizations challenging Physical Therapy Board Rule 211 and physical therapists’ ability to perform dry needling. The Colorado Chapter of the...
2018 Refocus on Value-Based Care System
It has been established that executives in the healthcare industry have their hands full with challenges and tasks now that 2018 has arrived. This is mainly due to the fact that all of the 2017-based issues are continuing to burden the healthcare industry. As a...
