PT Pintcast - Physical Therapy

Leslie Waltke giving tactical tips for working with patients during and after a cancer diagnosis.

Due to circumstances of COVID-19, APTA NEXT transformed our beloved NEXT conference virtual. At PT Pintcast, we decided to kick things off with a NEXT Virtual Happy Hour. 

Thank you Owens Recovery Science for sponsoring the event! www.OwensRecoveryScience.com

Johnny Owens and Kyle Kimbrell from Owens Recovery Science here to talk about blood flow restriction.

Kyle starts off this chat discussing that both, and we mean BOTH, Twitter and BFR changed his way of practice as a PT.

How to manage burnout as a PT? Try something new in the field and be inspired by connecting with others.

Check out Johnny and Kyle on the PACER Project here: owensrecoveryscience.com/blog/the-pacer-project/

Johnny and Kyle give us the breadth and depth on the benefits of BFR for ALL populations – athletes, pediatric, geriatric, even patients in the ICU.

Johnny illustrates how BFR is used in research, where it is going, and how it will benefit patients today.

PARTING SHOT

“I want physical therapists to stop prescribing exercise that looks like you’re a circus bear or a one man band. I want them to prescribe exercise that creates adaptation and muscle.” – KYLE

“How would I tell my kids that this is how my mom or dad reacted during these times.” – JOHNNY

Due to circumstances of COVID-19, APTA NEXT transformed our beloved NEXT conference virtual. At PT Pintcast, we decided to kick things off with a NEXT Virtual Happy Hour. 

Jerry Durham was our first guest to kick off this happy hour. Jerry discusses #timeIsNow which symbolizes the need to change now to move forward in changing the future.

As the patient experience is shifting towards a telehealth experience, it is important to understand the patient when talking on the phone.

What Jerry emphasizes is demonstrating to your patient from the initial phone call that THEY MATTER and make the experience all about them.

Jerry also acknowledges the difficulties of current physical therapists using telehealth. Even though these issues arise, physical therapists will only become better clinicians once back practicing in the clinic.

Interested in learning how to run a business while valuing the patient experience? Check out: https://clientexperiencecompany.com/

PARTING SHOT

“The world is about community. You will be successful when you learn who you can serve in your community. #1 step to business success.” - JERRY

https://www.ptpintcast.com/2020/03/23/the-one-thing-you-must-focus-on-for-success-in-your-physical-therapy-practice-with-jerry-durham/

https://www.ptpintcast.com/2018/01/24/268-jerry-durham-graham-sessions/

https://www.ptpintcast.com/2015/09/01/episode-5-jerry-durham-2/

Joe Reinke of www.FITBUx.com talks loans, making/saving money and having a plan that works for you.

Sharif Zeid from MW Therapy https://www.mwtherapy.com/ breaks down the NEED TO HAVES and the NICE TO HAVES for your practice EMR.

Sharif has been working with in the health IT space for over 15 years spending the bulk of that working with PT practices. He is a business director at MWTherapy, which is a complete PT software package, where he works on many different things including communicating with many PTs and staff on a daily basis.

https://twitter.com/mwtherapy

Got a chance to talk to Eric Legrand (https://ericlegrand52.com/) about his 10th annual A Walk to Believe event (https://give.reeve.org/event/2020-a-walk-to-believe/e275787)

To join the show's fundraising page click here: https://give.reeve.org/team/298927

HPA The Catalyst (https://www.aptahpa.org/) President Matt Mesibov and Vice President Karen Hughes come on to talk about the surge of information (and misinformation) around COVID-19.

We cover:

1. The impact of COVID-19 on our profession

2. Amid this crisis we have had a surge in membership and engagement... why?!

3. The uniqueness of HPA The Catalyst inclusivity and innovation

1. COVID Impact: Recognizing the need for resources for our profession and began to collaborate on clinical and non-clinical resources. e.g - webinars, telehealth vendor resource,  collaboration with APTA and other components.

2. Membership growth- at a time when Maslow's hierarchy is dominating our lives to survive - i.e. what are my basic needs? , we have seen more historical membership growth and engagement in learning, participating and developing material to share with our colleagues- awesome networking people - 

3. Innovation/Inclusivity of our section - ground up section - we give our members a platform to belong and adds value to each professionals life by allowing the individual and group  to flourish in their specific areas that impacts their quality of life and professionalism - ie.catalyst groups- beyond clinical, pt proud, pro-bono, tech sig, global health sig, lamp leadership & lamp management, payment and practice, research, publications, and programming

Angela Campbell and Sharon Gorman were instrumental in creating the PACER Project - Post Acute COVID-19 Exercise Rehabilitation.

Angela is the president of the cardio vascular and pulmonary section of the APTA and Sharon is the president of the acute care section of the APTA.

We talked about all of the free valuable resources available for treating patients post COVID. Find out more here: https://learningcenter.apta.org/student/mycourse.aspx?id=f4b7ebc7-bdbd-4808-814c-c875c8aee805

CVP YouTube channel featuring all the PACER courses:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJR0p2186h3OYPfnavgjfHQ

Chris Hughes the OP editor at the Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy (www.orthopt.org) gives us the overview of the current concepts of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy.

Listen to learn more about:

* Resources and service opportunities available through the Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy* How the ISC Current Concepts series for professional development can help YOU prepare for the OCS examination* Why having a "dying to know" attitude can make you a better clinician

WIN Access to Current Concepts of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy here: https://www.orthopt.org/

Ben is the founder of Mobile Measures, a mobile app designed for physical therapists to optimize the use of functional outcome measures. He is also a physical therapist at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where he still practices full time.

Mobile Measures is a mobile app that helps PTs measure patient outcomes.

It provides access to high-quality patient assessment tools that are proven to measure critical aspects of patient health/functional status including risk of falling, hospitalization, frailty, and much more.

The app guides users to the best test to use for over 40 different patient populations, it automatically calculates scores, offers immediate interpretation of the results, and uploads the results into your documentation. Users can visualize the impact of their patient’s condition, track progress, and determine the effectiveness of treatments directly at the point of care!

www.mobilemeasures.org

As the current trend in healthcare is moving toward value-based payment plans, physical therapists need to find new ways to prove the value of their services and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of delivering high-quality evidence based care. Mobile Measures is designed to do just that.

Outcome measures play a key role in clinical decision making, improving patient outcomes and quality of life, and reducing healthcare costs for patients and organizations.

Although the benefits of using outcome measures has been recognized for many years, they are not routinely and effectively being used in daily practice because of barriers related to time, knowledge, and ready access to information at the point of care.

Mobile Measures provides all of the tools needed to overcome these barriers and maximize the benefits that outcome measures provide.