PT Pintcast - Physical Therapy

Rose Pignataro presented at the APTA's NEXT conference in 2018 on where Physical Therapy can effect climate change... we didn't understand how, so instead of reading about it, we just went and made her explain it to us. She brought some friends to help too.

When it was over it made sense to us.

From her presentation @ NEXT:

"It can be argued that climate change is currently the biggest threat to global health. As physical therapists and physical therapist assistants, it is important for us to recognize the repercussions of global warming on the incidence and severity of disease and disability as a component of health promotion, wellness, and rehabilitative outcomes. Although it is not currently common practice, PTs and PTAs have numerous opportunities to play a crucial role in environmental sustainability. This session will explore the value of our professional knowledge and skill in health assessment and advocacy; plans of care relative to environmental exposure; and the influence of our physical surroundings on health behavior choices such as physical activity, proper nutrition, and stress management. Factors to consider include the impact of anthropogenic causes of climate change, ultimately affecting air and water quality; availability of healthy food, exposure to extreme weather hazards; and the influence of temperature on bacteria, fungi, and other infectious agents. The speakers will discuss an environmental framework that stresses the interdependence between personal and ecological well-being. This is consistent with the expectation that PTs and PTAs pursue interventions that treat communities as well as individuals, investing in population-level changes that advance public health."

Dr. Leslie Waltke on the show again who brings a ton of knowledge in the care of patients post-cancer treatment.

Cancer survivorship issues are now in the spotlight of research and cancer care. The number of cancer patients and survivors are growing at an astonishing pace. This has only highlighted the still present “cancer rehabilitation gap”: Oncology doctors and nurses don’t know enough about rehabilitation, and rehabilitation therapists don’t know enough about oncology. The result? The very patients that come to us for help, bear the brunt of our unawareness. They suffer more pain, more fatigue, more weakness and more loss than is necessary.

With the intent of pushing the quiet cancer rehabilitation evolution into a not so quiet revolution, the Waltke Cancer Rehabilitation was founded in 2016. By adding international collaboration and harnessing the power of social media and online education, the WCRA is driven to pull the worlds of rehabilitation and oncology together.

People affected by cancer deserve the finest evidence-based treatment available. Together we have the power to provide it to them. I look forward to the opportunity of working with you to make the world better for people with cancer!

Chad cook is a professor at Duke University in the Department of Physical Therapy.

He's got a session at CSM this year in Washington DC called, "The Dark Side of PubMed: Predatory Journals."

Along with Lori Michener, Federico Pozzi and Julie Tilson they will cover the rise and power of predatory journals. He also told the #EPIC story of the creation, submission and publication of a paper on a manip that brought a patient back from the dead, after 5-years.

Catch that talk @ CSM, details here:

Title: "The Dark Side of PubMed: Predatory Journals."

Section: Section on Research

Co-Section: Academy of PT Education

Session Code: RE-1A-0411

Date: Thursday, January 24, 2019

Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM 

Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center

Room: 159AB

From the APTA's Heather Smith, we break down WTF MIPS is and what it means to YOU.

From ATPA.org - "MIPS is the first large-scale value-based payment model that will impact PTs—beginning January 1, 2019, some PTs in private practice are required to participate; others are able to do so by choice. The 3 types of participation are described below. For PTs who are eligible but not required to participate, participation will be a business decision in which they must weigh the benefits of earning incentives with the risk for penalties. APTA has created resources to help PTs navigate this program."

Find out more here: http://www.apta.org/MIPS/

From CSM 2018 in New Orleans, a pair of interviews rolled into 1 episode with @ThePrehabGuys & @TheMovementMaestro

Kelly Starrett of Mobility talked with us early in 2018 looking forward to trends in PT and fitness.

This is 1 episode with two very different conversations.

First up is Duke Universities Kyle Covington talking about their innovative faculty residency program. Yes, going to school to become a professor in a PT program, it's a thing!

Kyle talks about the why's and how's of the program giving prospective students an idea of what the program is like just in case they might want to apply.

Next up is Julie Wiebe who talked about an interaction with @Crossfit on twitter. She was trying to build a bridge between the fitness organization and the PT profession. The interaction started when she reached out to let them know that "PeeRing" or Urine leakage while working out, shouldn't be celebrated. She wanted them to know it was an opportunity for a pelvic floor expert to help those who might leak with exercise.