PT Pintcast - Physical Therapy

The National Council on Aging's Senior Director Kathleen Cameron talks Falls Prevention Awareness Day. The NCOA has tools and resources available and tries to educate the public about how to prevent falls each year on the first day of... Fall.

This year it's September 23rd.

Find the NCOA's resources here: https://www.ncoa.org/healthy-aging/falls-prevention/falls-prevention-awareness-day/?utm_source=ncoa&utm_medium=homepage

This was originally aired on another podcast that Pintcast host Jimmy McKay produces - FOXcast PT. But we thought the content was so great we wanted to share it again.

Great insightful conversation with Jason Silvernail about treating those in pain with communication. But more HOW we approach those people and where treating them might fall short on the provider end.

Show as always brought to you by Aureus the leaders in #TravelPT www.AureusMedical.com

We talked to Maggie in March of 2019 when she was working on her documentary, "The Great Now What?" about her journey as a stroke survivor.

Maggie talks about the things she's lost, a fiancee, a job, freedom.

And the things she's gained, chronic pain, a new outlet for her art the chance to share a message.

We talked with PT Jarod Hall who loves talking and teaching other clinicians about pain.

We threw out the challenge to Jarod and asked him to give us the Top 5 things EVERY PT should know about Pain and here's his list.

Find Jarod online:

On Twitter: @Jarod_Hall

On Instagram: @drjarodhalldpt

We talked with London Physio Ben Cormack about pain and the visual analog scale and how patients reporting of pain can actually be an indication of other factors.

We talk about pain, treatment methods and the biopsychosocial model.

Ben is a musculoskeletal therapist with a clinical background in sports therapy, rehabilitation, pain science & exercise stretching back 15 years. He specializes in a movement & exercise based approach with a strong education component and patient centered focus.

Ben is a popular international presenter who has delivered conferences presentations and courses all over the world.

He's a co-host on the Clinical Thinker Podcast

Website here

On Twitter @CorKinetic

Katie Siengsukon is a Physical Therapist and researcher at the Kansas University Medical Center where she is the director of the Sleep, Health, and Wellness Laboratory.

Her line of research seeks to understand how sleep impacts function, learning, and overall health particularly with aging and in those with neurological conditions. She possesses a clinical background in outpatient physical therapy treating individuals with musculoskeletal and neurologic injury.

Her passion as a PT is helping people sleep better.

Find her on twitter @KatieSleepPT

Find her bio here

The Ouchie app allows those living with chronic pain to take control of their pain through sound data driven ideas & social support.

We talked to Rachel Trobman the founder of Ouchie about what it can do with the relationship between a patient their chronic pain and their PT.

Ouchie allows patients to track their pain, connect with others experiencing similar symptoms, learn and use evidence based interventions like meditation and exercise and earn actual prizes by interacting and using the app!

And as a Physical Therapist you can be reimbursed for having your patients use it while you monitor their progress.

www.Ouchie.com

On twitter @Ouchie

Jimmy talked with Ongwen Martin from his home in Nairobi Kenya. Ongwen talked about what PT looks like in Kenya, what tools he uses to stay up to date on the profession and what he hopes is the future of PT in his country.

The show is brewed by Aureus Medical Staffing the leaders in #Travel PT.Want to travel the country and be a PT? Talk to Aureus here.

We wanted to say thanks to them for helping to support the show.

We saw a patient case shared by Naveed Shan and the ramifications of him NOT asking some simple questions could have lead to a patient's death.

But fortunately for everyone involved Naveed is a PT who keeps asking questions when things just don't seem right.

Take a listen to his clinical case that happened where Naveed works, in the Emergency Department at Banner Health in Phoenix Arizona.

The name Adam Meakins always causes a stir in the profession of Physiotherapy (Physical Therapy for us Yanks). We caught up with Adam last year at this time and wanted to bring back his thoughts on manual therapy. At the time that was the topic of discussion on the social media platforms and true to form Adam didn't hold back.

A year later Adam is actually facing some increased scrutiny from his UK governing body about his word selection on social media.

We hope for a great outcome where everyone wins in this situation.