PT Pintcast - Physical Therapy

Sandy Billinger is an Associate Professor at an academic medical center and lead a research laboratory. She serves as the Neurovascular Division Director, KU Alzheimer's Disease Center and I is an educator in the classroom teaching Cardiopulmonary PT and a mentor for trainees.

Sandy is dental assistant turned academic who almost chose cardiac rehabilitation research instead of stroke recovery research. She enjoys her research and mentoring role that she did a Walk Across Kansas with her son to raise money to purchase unique equipment for an idea she had to assess brain health after stroke. Five years later, she and her lab team were the first in the world to publish on this methodology, Middle Cerebral Artery Dynamic Response during Moderate Intensity Exercise.

What we cover:

Stroke recovery research

Novel methodology for measuring cerebrovascular function during exercise

Career path

Roles/thoughts on mentoring

Value of DPT students collaborating with me in research

National Advocacy Dinners… or NADS. 

You’ve probably seen people talking about them online. Hashtag APTAnad

Well, the team at PT Pintcast knew a LITTLE bit about what NAD’s were… I mean, the word advocacy is in the title, and then there’s the word DINNER! Who doesn’t like dinner?!

…. But we wanted to look a little deeper at the ingredients that make up these events and see how they’re cooked, just before this year’s event.  Which will be served this Saturday May 9th at 7pm eastern. 

https://www.facebook.com/APTAStudents/

https://www.apta.org/AdvocacyDinner/

Veena Somareddy is the CEO/CTO of Neuro Rehab VR. They build virtual reality therapy products for Physical and Occupational therapy clinics, Hospitals, Patients who have suffered a stroke, TBI, SPI and other neuro diseases

https://www.neurorehabvr.com/

* We cover:How VR is disrupting the PT, OT industry with virtual reality therapy* How our patients and therapists are responding to the tech and how the data analytics helps with precise tracking of patient progress* With Covid-19, Telemedicine even in PT is going to be an important way of Therapy soon and would like to talk about how this tech can help PTs continue to keep in touch with their patients

Virtual Reality:Increases patient engagement & motivation with virtual reality for physical therapyPatient and PT experiences with VR and Data Analytics for progress tracking

* Listen and learn how:* Understand the benefits of virtual reality technology, how they can integrate it into their practice.* Increase patient engagement, motivation and also ROI for their clinics* Explore new ways of keeping in touch with their patients remotely at a time of crises where they have to practice social distancing when PT is all about being in close contact with patients

Project 11 and Pacer with Johnny Owens and Larry Cahalin

The APTA Pacer Project - Post-Acute Covid-19 Exercise and Rehabilitation (PACER) Project brings together multiple components in the form of multiple online learning modules for a variety of topics that will be needed in patients post COVID19.

Johnny Owens and Larry Cahalin are collaborating on a Blood Flow Restriction component that we dive into. Johnny sticks around the show to talk about Project 11 - a feature on ESPN documenting the injury and recovery of the Washington Redskins Quarterback Alex Smith. The feature is hosted by physical therapist and ESPN head injury analyst Stephanie Bell. Johnny was part of the recovery team for Alex, along with another former guest of PT Pintcast Seth Blee.

Patrick Berner is a Physical Therapist and Registered Dietician who speaks regularly on the topics of nutrition and health.

We all eat certain foods for a reason. Whether it be preference, what we grew up eating, our culture, but even our access to foods.It's important to know these reasons and the fact that we are all different in order to go any further in integrating nutrition into PT practice. 

We can talk about what is "healthy" all day, but if it doesn't fit into someone's life or they don't know how to make it fit, then it's all for none.

We cover:What I eat will never look identical to what you eat.My access to food will differ from a majority of people.Knowing the reason behind behaviors and nutritional determinants sets up future success.

No stranger to the show Erik Meira comes back on to talk about the American Academy of Sports Physical Therapy.

https://spts.org/

http://aptaapps.apta.org/componentconnection/profile.aspx?compcode=F&UniqueKey=

Erica Michitsch is a pelvic floor and orthopedic physical therapist. She owns Solstice Physio (www.solsticept.com) in Midtown Manhattan and Long Island. 

COVID-19 hit and she had to adapt to Telehealth treatment in an intimate setting, learning how to bill/charge patients, and with navigating technology to best benefit the patient. 

Full Disclosure - Erica was very resistant to telehealth at first, but has come to love it.

We hear how she converted her entire business from the epicenter of a pandemic while thriving.

Physical Therapist and Boss Lady Megan Brown owns Mind the Mat - a thriving Pilates and Yoga studio in Alexandria Virginia shares how she went from in person treatment and classes as her main business to dancing in bunny ears to Beyonce on Easter via webcam.

Megan and her team had many of the same struggles and limitations as fellow Physical Therapists across the world, but what they did with it was unique.

We learn how Mind the Mat pivoted to not only stay in business, but thrive in a time of a global pandemic that has prevented in person treatment and classes.

https://www.mindthemat.com/

http://www.instagram.com/mindthemat

We went live @ Technopalooza, a 3-hour event at CSM that featured some of the leaders in and around technology in Physical Therapy.

The event was put on by HPA The Catalyst.

We went live @ CSM in Denver with some new and some familiar voices.

On the show for the first time is Jason Steer with his former student Matt Tuttle who's a friend of the show. Jason currently serves as a physical therapist for a special operations unit in the U.S. Army. He has been a member of a multidisciplinary team for most of his career which began in the athletic training room at the University of South Dakota in 1995. After receiving his Master’s degree in Physical Therapy in 2000, he was able to spend 3 years with the Los Angeles Dodgers and 4 years with the Seattle Mariners working side by side with esteemed physicians, physical therapists, athletic trainers, and strength and conditioning professionals.

Also back again is Krystyna Holland who tells us more about her origin story as a Physical Therapist, one that almost prevented her from becoming a PT altogether.