Practice Leadership

We welcome Dr. Mark Shepherd back to the EIM Clinical Podcast! Mark is now the Assistant Director for the Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapy Fellowship Program at Bellin College. He’s also still part of the faculty at Evidence In Motion and the International Spine and Pain Institute, and Assistant Professor at South College. Mark will be … Continued

This week on the EIM Practice Leadership Podcast, Dr. Larry Benz will be discussing a somewhat controversial topic. That topic is outcomes. Larry read in PT in Motion that MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System) is now a movement into value-based payments. However, that is something that we fully disagree with. It’s like saying tap-dancing is … Continued

We welcome Dr. Matthew Tuttle to the EIM Clinical Podcast! Matt is one of the physical therapists for the Denver Nuggets. He’s also an EIM Fellow and brings some incredible pearls of wisdom to this week’s episode. He and Jeff will be discussing different ways of utilizing pain science and fellowship training. Since Matt works … Continued

This week’s EIM Clinical Podcast is about professional and skill development for physical therapists. We welcome Tom Denninger, Regional Director for Clinical Excellence at ATI Physical Therapy. Tom has a unique vantage point for the development of clinical professionals and will be sharing what ATI does to get clinical professionals where they need to be … Continued

Dr. Larry Benz recently returned from the 2018 Private Practice Section Annual Conference at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, CO. It was a fantastic and even optimistic conference! Larry had the opportunity to present on a topic and moderate a fascinating panel at the conference. Today’s episode is a sub-topic on what Larry presented … Continued

We welcome Dr. David Elton, Chiropractor and Senior Vice President of Clinical Programs at Optum Behavioral Health, to the EIM Clinical Podcast! Dave shares a number of updates on the innovative clinical pathways that Optum is working on to deal with the opioid crisis. These updates, as well as some news reports, really help to … Continued

There are always “storms” and the “not-so-storms” that seem to blow through our lives without our permission. These storms may bring praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, and/or fame and disrepute. These “storms” are called the Vicissitudes of Life. They’re part of our humanity and they do arise. Dr. Daphne Scott talks … Continued

This week, on the EIM Practice Leadership Podcast, Dr. Larry Benz discusses bet number two: The Pathway Model of Care. On the last episode of Practice Leadership, Larry started a series of episodes on the topic of “big bets.” These are bets that we need to make in physical therapy. Larry discussed these bets at … Continued

We have a fun episode for you this week! Dr. Chris Moore, Jeff’s older brother and role model, joins us on the EIM Clinical Podcast! Chris and Jeff managed a physical therapy practice, Back in Motion, in Michigan, and Chris continues that practice today. We tend to have nationally known guests on the EIM Clinical … Continued

Dr. Heidi Jannenga, President and Co-Founder of WebPT, joins us on the EIM Clinical Podcast! Heidi shares a little about her story co-founding WebPT and providing helpful solutions for physical therapists. She also shares quite a bit of what happened at the Ascend Conference that WebPT recently hosted. It was a very exciting conference and … Continued