Students

Whether just beginning your studies, gearing up for graduation or starting in your first clinic, PT Aligned shares insights and helpful tips that ease your transition from student to PT.

October 17, 2019

Are You an Outcomes Expert? Will You Be Attending the Clinical Outcomes Summit?

Clinical Outcomes Summit- Highlight Speaker: Daniel Lord, Physical Medicine Program Manager at Crossover Health Written by Selena Horner What do Apple, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Intuit have in common? An innovative healthcare delivery model. Daniel Lord, the Physical Medicine Program Manager at Crossover Health, assists these self-insured employers in providing health care on-site (or very near site). The Crossover Health vision changes a provider’s …

Dr. Daniel Lord

Physical Medicine Program Manager at Crossover Health

May 9, 2019

Treatment of the Shoulder and Knee: What They Don’t Teach You in School – New Edition

Instructional Level: Intermediate with lecture and lab both days CE: Shoulder and Knee – ProCert approved for 17 CCUs, NYSED board approved for 15 CEs Shoulder or Knee – ProCert approved for 8.5 CCUs, NYSED for 7.5 CE Course Description: This course addresses one of the most critical opportunities that you face as a clinician. According to information from the National Center for Health Statistics, …

Dr. Kevin Wilk

PT, DPT, FAPTA

January 15, 2019

To Cue or not to Cue

When evaluating a patient or athlete, is there a difference between testing their capability and testing their movement pattern? Put another way: Do we want to see what they are capable of – or what they habitually do? Professor Vladimir Janda wrote “During movement pattern testing, minimal verbal cues should be used which test an individual’s habitual way of performing a movement. …

Dr. Craig Liebenson

DC, Founder of First Principles of Movement, author of Rehabilitation of the Spine (2007) & The Functional Training Handbook (2014).

January 10, 2019

CSM Educational Breakout Sessions at the MeyerPT booth #1904

If you’re in DC, for the APTA Combined Sections Meeting, January 23-26, please make sure to stop by the MeyerPT booth (#1904). It’s the place to get easy-to-apply educational tips and advice you can take back to your clinic and put right to work on Monday morning. It’s also where you can see and hear about the latest product innovations …

Adam Matisz

MeyerPT Sales Manager

November 29, 2018

How To Grow Your Practice with Workshops, Part 2

In this part 2 discussion of how to grow your practice with workshops, I’ll go over how to teach workshops and how to effectively follow up after the workshop. (If you haven’t read part 1 yet, click here to do that first. This post will make a lot more sense to you if you read Part 1 first.) To recap, in …

Dr. Danny Matta

PT, DPT, OCS, CSCS; founder and owner of Athletes' Potential; Director of MobilityWOD Tactical; Creator of The PT Entrepreneur Podcast

November 21, 2018

Do you collect over $100K per year from Anthem BC/BS?

Do you collect more than $100K per year from Anthem BC/BS? If you answered yes, please read the article below. (This is Part 1 of a 2 Part Series.) Anthem states that the services you provide must improve or restore functions which have been impaired. Benefits end when treatment is no longer medically necessary and the patient stops progressing. In …

Dr. Marty Kotlar

CPCO, CBCS

October 29, 2018

Join MeyerPT at PPS 2018 – The Premier Educational Event Designed For Physical Therapy Business Management

2018 PPS Annual Conference The Premier Event Designed For Physical Therapy Business Management November 7-10 | The Broadmoor | Colorado Springs, CO About the PPS THE PRIVATE PRACTICE SECTION (PPS) comprises more than 4,200 physical therapists nationwide who own, operate, or work in a private practice setting. PPS is a component of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and their …

PPS

October 24, 2018

2018 & 2019 Structure & Function Dry Needling Course Schedule

Foundations in Dry Needling for Orthopedic Rehab and Sport Performance (schedule below) Course Description: In this 25-hour lab-based course, the clinician will learn a diagnosis-focused approach to dry needling. The clinician will learn fundamental skills necessary for safe and proper needle insertion and removal, as well as effective strategies to manage commonly encountered pathologies in orthopedic and sport rehabilitation. Safety …

Sue Falsone

PT, MS, SCS, ATC, CSCS, COMT, first female head athletic trainer in any of the four major sports in the US

October 3, 2018

Recorded Webinar: Elite Athletes to the Everyday Patient: Treatment and Manual Therapy Tips from World Surf League Medical Director Dr. Tim Brown

From Elite Athletes to the Everyday Patient/Client Treatment and Training Tips from World Surf League Medical Director Dr. Tim Brown When: Thursday, September 20, 2:00 pm ET DESCRIPTION: Original Medical Director of the Pro Beach Volleyball Tour (AVP) and the current Co-Medical Director of the Pro Surf Tour (ASP/WSL) Dr. Tim Brown will discuss tips, tools and what he’s learned …

Dr. Tim Brown

Co-Medical Director for the World Surf League (formerly the ASP)

September 27, 2018

Psychological Measures for Return to Play Following ACLR, Part 4

Over the course of this blog series, we’ve been discussing Kinesiophobia (fear of movement) that is sometimes associated with athletes who have an ACL reconstruction. In the last installment, we pointed out some objective measures we see in our athletes who demonstrate higher levels of kinesiophobia. The two main things we see are: An increase in lateral shift or shift …