In this episode, Liz and Tim speak with Dr. Heidi Jannenga PT, DPT, ATC, physical therapist and co-founder of WebPT, regarding the difficult topic of inequity in health care for people of color. We discuss the problems of implicit bias, systemic racism, and the 90% problem in the PT profession. Heidi also provides some small ways we can all work to improve.

 

Links:
Justice In June
Why We Cannot—And Do Not—Serve Our Patients Equally
Bridging the PT Diversity Gap
Connect with Heidi via LinkedIn

Some books regarding these topics:
The New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander)
So You Want to Talk About Race (Ijeoma Oluo)
How to be an Antiracist (Ibram X Kendi)
Just Mercy (Bryan Stevenson)
White Fragility (Robin DiAngelo)

Pain Reframed: Racial inequity in health care | Heidi Jannenga

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Welcome to the Practice Leadership Podcast. This season we’re digging ever deeper into the PT industry's biggest movers and shakers. Join us, your co-hosts, Tim Reynolds and Bryan Guzski, the authors of Movers & Mentors, as we deep-dive with the big guns – answering the big questions every future and current PT wants to know. From Confluent Health and Evidence In Motion, The Practice Leadership Podcast’s Movers & Shakers Season will go straight to the source, asking our industry heavyweights for their wisdom, deconstructing influential quotes and learning a thing or two along the way. This week we are connected with Dr. Kevin Wilk, a leading authority in the rehabilitation of sports and orthopedic conditions for the past 37 years. He is currently the associate clinical director for Champion Sports Medicine in Birmingham, AL. He is the Vice President of Clinical Research and Education for Select Medical, director of Rehabilitative Research at the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, and adjunct assistant professor in the PT program at Marquette University. He has published over 190 journal articles, 130 book chapters, 10 textbooks, and lectured at over 1200 professional and scientific meetings throughout the world. He has received countless awards including the Ron Peyton Award for career achievement from the sports physical therapy section of the APTA, the James Andrews Award for achievement in the area of baseball science, inducted in the Sports Section Blackburn Hall of Fame, and received a tremendous honor when the Sports Physical Therapy Section of the APTA named the Traveling Fellowship after him. Instagram: @wilk_kevin 

Practice Leadership - Movers & Shakers Deep Dive | Kevin Wilk

Welcome to the Practice Leadership Podcast. This season we’re digging ever deeper into the PT industry's biggest movers and shakers. Join us, your co-hosts, Tim Reynolds and Bryan Guzski, the authors of Movers & Mentors, as we deep-dive with the big guns – answering the big questions every future and current PT wants to know. From Confluent Health and Evidence In Motion, The Practice Leadership Podcast’s Movers & Shakers Season will go straight to the source, asking our industry heavyweights for their wisdom, deconstructing influential quotes and learning a thing or two along the way. This week we are connected with David Butler, a physiotherapy graduate of the University of Queensland (1978). He has a graduate diploma in advanced manipulative therapy (1985), a masters degree by research from the University of South Australia (1996) and a doctorate in education from Flinders University (2010). David is a clinician, an international freelance educator, an Adjunct Associate Professor with the University of South Australia and an Honoured Lifetime Member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association. His professional interests focus on the integration of neurobiology into clinical decision making and public and professional education in pain, stress and performance management. Food, wine and fishing are also research interests. Author of numerous book chapters and articles and the texts Mobilisation of the Nervous System (1991), The Sensitive Nervous System (2000), David has also co-authored of Explain Pain (2003, 2nd Edn 2013), The Graded Motor Imagery Handbook (2012) and The Explain Pain Handbook: Protectometer (2015). More Links:  Email: david@djsyt.com

Practice Leadership - Movers & Shakers Deep Dive | David Butler

Welcome to the Practice Leadership Podcast. This season we’re digging ever deeper into the PT industry's biggest movers and shakers. Join us, your co-hosts, Tim Reynolds and Bryan Guzski, the authors of Movers & Mentors, as we deep-dive with the big guns – answering the big questions every future and current PT wants to know. From Confluent Health and Evidence In Motion, The Practice Leadership Podcast’s Movers & Shakers Season will go straight to the source, asking our industry heavyweights for their wisdom, deconstructing influential quotes and learning a thing or two along the way. This week we are connected with Enda King PhD MSc, who combines his roles as a sports physiotherapist, strength and conditioning coach, researcher, and educator through his work with individual athletes and elite teams across a spectrum of sports and disciplines. Currently, he is Head Elite Performance and Development in Aspetar, Doha, Qatar and traveling internationally to work with athletes and professional clubs. He currently lives between Qatar and Ireland with his wife Michelle and their 3 children Eleanor, Ethan and Iarlaith.    More Links:  twitter: @enda_king Website: https://www.enda-king.com/

Practice Leadership - Movers & Shakers Deep Dive | Enda King

Welcome to the Practice Leadership Podcast. This season we’re digging ever deeper into the PT industry's biggest movers and shakers. Join us, your co-hosts, Tim Reynolds and Bryan Guzski, the authors of Movers & Mentors, as we deep-dive with the big guns – answering the big questions every future and current PT wants to know. From Confluent Health and Evidence In Motion, The Practice Leadership Podcast’s Movers & Shakers Season will go straight to the source, asking our industry heavyweights for their wisdom, deconstructing influential quotes and learning a thing or two along the way. This week we are connected with Dr. Larry Benz.  More Links:  Twitter: @physicaltherapy IG: physicaltherapist

Practice Leadership - Movers & Shakers Deep Dive | Dr. Larry Benz

Welcome to the Practice Leadership Podcast. This season we’re digging ever deeper into the PT industry's biggest movers and shakers. Join us, your co-hosts, Tim Reynolds and Bryan Guzski, the authors of Movers & Mentors, as we deep-dive with the big guns – answering the big questions every future and current PT wants to know. From Confluent Health and Evidence In Motion, The Practice Leadership Podcast’s Movers & Shakers Season will go straight to the source, asking our industry heavyweights for their wisdom, deconstructing influential quotes and learning a thing or two along the way. This week we are connected with  More Links:  Website: https://www.juliewiebept.com/ Twitter: @juliewiebept  Reference Paper 

Pain Reframed: Racial inequity in health care | Heidi Jannenga

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