Learn more from physical and occupational therapists like yourself in our section devoted to peer insights and opinions from those in the clinics or on the sidelines.
Let’s visualize your clinic as a puzzle, and all the elements that make up your clinic are the pieces. Your services are pieces of the puzzle, one piece for physical therapy, one for massage, one for rehabilitation… you get the picture. There are also pieces for your products, supplements, equipment, and so on. There are pieces for your competitive and fair …
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The International Fascia Research Congress (FRC) was created by a multidisciplinary committee of basic science researchers and practicing health care professionals whose respective fields share a common focus and interest in the human body’s soft connective tissue matrix. For the first time, the 2015 Congress also included veterinary aspects of fascia research. An important continuing initiative of the FRC is …
MeyerPT Vice President, Managing Editor, Communities and Education
Some of the best exercises you can incorporate into patient rehab routines require simple little pieces of equipment (which can often challenge even the fittest among us). Exercise bands are a great example of a low cost, low-tech tool to help your clients create stability and strength while improving overall fitness – without having to lift heavy weights or put …
National Account Manager, ELIVATE Fitness
Below is a great review that discusses the importance of understanding oxidative stress and inflammation as it relates to chronic injury and disease. It also discusses polyphenols, natural occurring compounds that are present in plants and are involved with numerous biological activities. According to the study, polyphenols can play a role in inhibiting molecular signaling pathways activated by oxidative stress. …
DC and President of Wellness Watchers Global, LLC, Ceautamed Worldwide, LLC & GreensFirst.com
No matter what you’re looking for or what you questions you have about your next treatment table… features quality dimensions color or size options pricing other comparable products …your MeyerPT personal Account Manager can answer those questions and help you get the table that’s right for you and your patients. Below you’ll see just a few of the many tables …
MeyerPT Vice President, Managing Editor, Communities and Education
NOTE: The following, used with permission of the author, is excerpted from the Conscious Coaching Field Guide by Brett Bartholomew. This field guide is a companion piece to Bartholomew’s book, Conscious Coaching: The Art & Science of Building Buy-In, which is mentioned at the bottom of this piece. “Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, …
Founder of The Bridge Human Performance
Patients and even some non-patients often ask me: “What type of injection is best for my arthritic knee?” There are several options available to the patient. They may receive a corticosteroid injection, platelet rich plasma (PRP), hyaluronic acid (HA) or stem cell injection. The dilemma is determining which one of those is the best for relieving symptoms from osteoarthritis. A …
PT, DPT, FAPTA
Technology. Never has a word stirred so much excitement, desire, and anxiety all at the same time. Of all the professions out there, the Health and Fitness industry has been one of the slowest to adopt technology. I mean no one else is writing notes, using notebooks, and scanning documents regularly. Question is, why are we so slow to adapt? …
MSPT, CMP, CF-L1
UFC middleweight champion Georges St-Pierre and his trainer, Firas Zahabi, were recently in Bradenton, Fla., for the grand opening of the TimTam Recovery Center at IMG Academy. The Center is the first of many planned for the United States. “TimTam together with IMG Academy aligns us with the top brands in athletics,” said Tom Pepe, managing director of TimTam. “Recovery …
Nutritionist and Pro Fitness Competitor
Pain is one of the oldest medical complaints and even today remains the most frequent reason for which people seek care.1 There are very few in the healthcare system—chiropractors, physical therapists, dentists, nurses, physicians– who do not regularly help patients manage pain. Still, patients may neglect to talk about their pain in meaningful ways or may not even bring pain …
