Stop the Therapy Cap

The APTA, in conjunction with the Therapy Cap Coalition, is launching a national grassroots campaign to "Stop the Therapy Cap" on Monday, December 3, 2012. As members of FPTA and APTA, it is important that we add our voice to this campaign.  The Therapy Cap could be devastating to many SNF, geriatrics, and outpatient clinics!

More information can be found below:
http://www.apta.org/FederalIssues/TherapyCap/

http://www.apta.org/PTinMotion/NewsNow/2012/11/29/StopTheCap/

What is Chronic Pain?

Treating patients with chronic pain is very difficult and researchers are continuing to understand the mechanism of chronic pain.  This is a great short video is understanding chronic pain and how patients perceive pain.

Future of Medicine?? Scary!

A colleague of mine Dr. Donley just wrote an excellent write-up regarding the future of healthcare and what ObamaCare will lead to.  Please click on the links to read.  This is very scary and those in medicine are going to a path of future uncertainty.

Treatment for Tinnitus??

Science Based Medicine did a great review of evidenced based interventions for tinnitus.  Sorry to say that there currently are no cures and it looks like we are still trying to understand the mechanism.  Below is the link:

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/is-there-a-treatment-for-tinnitus/

The Great Prone Press Up!

The prone press up is a great tool to help with low back but it needs to be performed correctly.  Dr. E reviews the prone press up and the correct way to implement it in patients with low back, with flexion sensitivity, and who respond to repeated extension.

http://www.themanualtherapist.com/2012/07/top-5-fridays-5-considerations-for.html

Say goodbye to the goniometer and hi to the smartphone!

if more and more reliability research continues to  to support using a smart phone for reliable ROM measurements, we can get rid of the goniometer!

Within-day reliability of shoulder range of motion measurement with a smartphone

Biopsychosocial approach to treating Chronic LBP

Warm-up for Golfers

What is Physical Therapy?

What is physical therapy?  can physical therapy treat my injury?  who is considered the best person to see to treat me?  What can I do for my low back pain?  All of these questions can be answered for you.  Visit pursuittherapy.com/about-us and see what Pursuit Physical Therapy is all about and what we can treat.

Patient Perspectives

any patient that wants information regarding their injury, Pursuit Physical Therapy just started a patient perspective page to allow patients to download free information regarding their injury. click on the link and enjoy the information.

Pursuit Physical Therapy You Tube Channel

You tube educational videos coming soon!  visit the Pursuit Physical Therapy channel on you tube at http://www.youtube.com/user/Pursuittherapy