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Top 5 Lifestyle Modifications to Help my Neck

One of the hardest tasks as clinicians is to persuade our patients into making genuine lifestyle modifications. Whether it is the realization that we may not be as “perfect” as we used to be or it stems from work requirements ...

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If you can’t say something nice about them, then…

How can gossip impact your patient's outcomes?

The Answer to “Natural Running”: Learn to Run by Watching Our Children?

Bruce Wilk, PT, OCS Annmarie Garis, DPT Barefoot and natural running advocates tell us to observe children run barefoot so that we many learn to run “naturally” in order to avoid and manage our own running related injuries. However, such statements are inherently flawed. As physical therapists, we know that children also ...

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Influence – how do you get compliance?

Medical providers can apply Robert Cialdini's principles to their practices

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The Power of Connecting: How social media is changing healthcare

  As consumers we are using social networks to manage just about every aspect of our daily ...

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Top 10 reasons why I have a herniated disc in my neck

In February of 2011 I started to feel pain in the top and back my shoulder which eventually spread to pain down the outside of the elbow along with numbness in my first 2 fingers. In the past I ...

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Why do our patient’s knees hurt after TKAs?

15-30% of individuals have prolonged pain following a total knee replacement. This article exams "why".

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Contributor Jarod Carter on PT Talker

Catch Jarod Carter's discussion on his Cash-based Physical Therapy clinic, on PT Talker. From PTTalker.com: Jarod operates fully on a Cash-based model. He shares some of the secrets to running a cash-based physical therapy clinic in this week’s podcast. His clinic is a one-man operation with a simple set-up including a ...