PT Pintcast - Physical Therapy

We talked to Access.Earth founder Matt McCann about the app he created.

It lets users rate and share the accessibility of locations around the world.

Using his first hand experience with having Cerebral Palsy Matthew set up Access Earth to help provide accessible information for everyone. Since then Matthew has presented at the UN and is part of the Irish Human Rights Equality Commission's Disability Advisory Committee.

* The importance of accessibility information for everyday life* The rise of accessible tourism* Smart cities helping to improve  inclusion* CSR and how companies can have lasting community impact

Next up on the TOP 5 clinical trials from PEDRO is AVERT

Efficacy and safety of very early mobilisation within 24 h of stroke onset (AVERT): a randomised controlled trial.

You can find it in the lancet from July 2015, and the link to it is in the show notes of this episode.

We talk with Professor Julie Bernhardt is co-leader of The Florey's Stroke theme, and leads the AVERT Early Intervention Research Program.

The background for avert is:  

Early mobilisation after stroke is thought to contribute to the effects of stroke-unit care; however, the intervention is poorly defined and not underpinned by strong evidence. We aimed to compare the effectiveness of frequent, higher dose, very early mobilisation with usual care after stroke.

Link for article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25892679

Link for video about AVERT: https://youtu.be/-P4fR04oRCc

Hannah Cook & Kaitlyn Mital are two students in a growing movement that are creating their own professional meetings. Costs of travel and conferences are high, especially on a student budget, PT students have taken it upon themselves to create their own conclaves.

We talked to them for the background on the process.

PDPM and PDGM are giving PTs and PTA's stress. The Academy of Geriatric Physical Therapists, Home Health Section and the Section on Health Policy & Administration within the APTA got together to create resources for the profession.

Ellen Strunk came on to break it down for us.

Here are links to the resources mentioned in the show:

APTA PDPM website:  http://www.apta.org/PDPM/

APTA PDGM website: http://www.apta.org/pdgm/

APTA website on Postacute Care Reform:  http://www.apta.org/PostacuteCareReform/

Academy of Geriatric Physical Therapy (AGPT) PDGM and PDPM website:  https://geriatricspt.org/practice/payment-policy-and-advocacy.cfm?

Health Policy Administration- The Catalyst website

* Webinars at https://www.aptahpa.org/events/event_list.asp* Payment and Practice Resources at https://www.aptahpa.org/page/PracticeResources

Home Health section website: https://www.homehealthsection.org/

PEDro stands for Physiotherapy Evidence Database, 

It’s a free database of over 45,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. 

For each trial, review or guideline, PEDro provides the citation details, the abstract and a link to the full text, where possible. 

All trials on PEDro are independently assessed for quality. 

These quality ratings are used to quickly guide users to trials that are more likely to be valid and to contain sufficient information to guide clinical practice. 

PEDro is produced by the Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, School of Public Health at the University of Sydney and is hosted by Neuroscience Research Australia.

And did we mention… this is free?!  Find PEDro at https://www.pedro.org.au/

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Now To celebrate PEDro’s 20th birthday they’ve have identified the five most important randomised controlled trials in physiotherapy published in the last 5 years. These trials were nominated by PEDro users, and an independent panel of international trialists judged the nominations received.

Now YOU get to take advantage of hearing a little more about these standout pieces of work… by the people who created them.

First up… is Fashion?  It’s not about clothes or looking good… thank goodness or I’d be WELL out of my element, but this Fashion UK trial’s title was:  Hip arthroscopy versus best conservative care for the treatment of femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (UK FASHIoN): a multicentre randomised controlled trial

 - if you had scrabble letters you’d find FASHION UK in there somewhere and let’s be honest, FASHIO UK was easier to remember than…. Wait what was that title again?

Link to Fashion UK: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31202-9/fulltext 

Link to Fashion UK video:  https://youtu.be/ZtMBCCsKnWE

Link to Personalize Hip Protocol: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/19/1217

Link to iHOT 33: https://www.physio-pedia.com/International_Hip_Outcome_Tool_(iHOT)

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We went to THE Ohio State University Physical Therapy program and talked with great faculty and leadings students in this 2 part episode.

Episode 2 feature Paul Tadak & Kara Carpenter & Kristen Cook.

We went to THE Ohio State University Physical Therapy program and talked with great faculty and leadings students in this 2 part episode.

Episode 1 features Mike Martin, Kayla Harris and Morgan Alexander

We talked with Physical Therapist Chris Mamula who is somewhat of an expert on financial independence. Chris retired at 41 years old and now writes, podcasts and blogs about how you can do that too.

We covered:

* What can PTs or other professionals do to achieve financial independence (FI) quickly.* Why should you pursue FI even if (and especially if) you love your job.* How can you reframe the idea of saving as sacrifice to viewing saving as security, options and freedom.* What did my life look like while saving toward FI.* Why retirement was the wrong goal for me and likely is for you as well.

We talked with Physical Therapist Suzanne O'Neal. Suzanne is an assistant professor in the DPT program at Midwestern University and a neuro nerd and huge proponent of community service.

She's also a Clinical Director for Special Olympics Arizona.

In that role, she help's to coordinate free PT screenings for Special Olympic athletes at various state games.

We covered:

Why is community service so important? And why is it important to start fostering this belief in PT education?  What are the Special Olympics FUNfitness PT screenings?Who is involved in the screenings?  How did she get involved in Special Olympics?How can YOU get involved?

We got to talk to Matt Tuttle one of the Physical Therapists for the Denver Nuggets. Topics we hit on were:

Pain Science EducationSleepWearablesLoad ManagementBlood Flow Restriction Training

And Matt referred to an episode of the BJSM podcast, here's that link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-cant-use-bad-data-to-guide-training-decisions-load/id330966919?i=1000448807259

We mentioned a great video Matt was featured in on Pain Science take a look at that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeIkkD-UlsE

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