PT Pro Talk

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💭 “You can have all the right biomechanical diagnoses, exercises, posture correction… but if the patient does not have the capacity to follow up on that, then you are getting nowhere.” - Charlotte Krog

👉🏻 Our guest is Charlotte Krog, PT. Dip. MDT, Specialist in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy, Master of Positive Psychology (MoPP). Charlotte graduated as a physiotherapist in 1994 and completed her Diploma in Mechanical Diagnosis & Therapy (Dip. MDT) in 1997. She has been part of the Danish McKenzie Institute since 2001 and was acknowledged as a specialist in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy in 2005 by the Danish Physiotherapy Association. In 2007 she was appointed Faculty of the Danish McKenzie Institute. In 2015, she finished her master’s degree in Positive Psychology at Aarhus University in Denmark, where she bridged the biomedical with the humanistic paradigm and framework of understanding with the aim of ensuring a holistic approach – giving the patient a voice by using formative assessment of measuring pain, function, wellbeing, management and alliance in daily practice. She works as a specialist musculoskeletal clinical physiotherapist in private practice dealing with complex conditions, and has a special interest in long term/ persistent pain and malfunctioning. She has participated as a speaker in several national and international conferences; research projects; describing guidelines for the Danish Ministry of Health regarding cervical dischearniation, participating in designing a formal education in DK, becoming a professional mentor for health personal among a lot of other things.

📚What will you learn:

▪️ Charlotte's story and career

▪️ Biopsychosocial alliance measurement by formative assessment

▪️ A way to combine pain and function measurement with well being and alliance.

▪️ How to use measurements to adjust treatment plan

▪️ What to do when the patient is not progressing as expected

▪️ Advice to clinicians who are starting their careers

▪️ How to become successful in Physical Therapy

🔎Charlotte's favorite resource of information:

📲 Charlotte's contact information:

🎥Link to interview on Youtube:https://youtu.be/Vy9Ttpu08a8

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💭 “If you have something as highly prevalent as this, even in the chronic population, that has the potential for such a good prognosis and can guide your management strategies, you would be foolish to ignore it.” - Dr. Stephen May

👉🏻 Our guest is Stephen May, MA, FCSP, Dip MDT, MSc, Ph.D. Stephen May trained as a physiotherapist in Leeds, UK, and graduated in 1990; he then worked in the NHS, UK, in musculoskeletal care. In 2002 he became a senior lecturer and then Reader at Sheffield Hallam University teaching research issues and musculoskeletal care, and supervising many MSc and Ph.D. students. He has written textbooks with Robin McKenzie detailing Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy in the Extremities (2000), Lumbar spine (2003), and Cervical spine (2006), chapters in textbooks, and articles in scientific journals; with over 100 publications in total. He has served on several national and international committees relating to guideline development and the McKenzie institute and has peer-reviewed numerous international physical therapy and musculoskeletal journals. In 2006 he was awarded a Fellowship by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy for contributions to the profession. He has more or less retired since 2019.

📚What will you learn:

▪️ Stephen's story and career

▪️ Definition of centralization and directional preference

▪️ What evidence says about centralization

▪️ Centralization in acute, sub-acute, and chronic spine pain

▪️ Low Back Pain Clinical Practice Guidelines

▪️ Advice to clinicians who are starting their careers

▪️ How to become successful in Physical Therapy

🔎Stephen's favorite resource of information:

🎥Link to interview on Youtube:https://youtu.be/LMJOXishAqs

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💻LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pt-pro-talk

📩Email: [email protected]

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💭 “I use cupping for local tissue effect, try to improve viscoelasticity, and fluid dynamics, build rapport, and improve confidence and their ability to move.”. - Dr. Christopher DaPrato

👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Christopher DaPrato, DPT, SCS, CSCS, MFDc. Dr. DaPrato obtained his Master’s degree in physical therapy from CSULB and his clinical doctorate in physical therapy from Temple University. DaPrato was an Associate Professor appointed in the PT and Orthopedics departments, & works primarily with the sports orthopedic population. He currently is a team PT for Div. 1 athletes at Cal and works extensively with their track and field, football, and soccer teams. DaPrato has been teaching CE courses over the last several years in the areas of athlete return to play, specialty concepts related to the LE, endurance athlete management, and unique manual therapy applications for injuries & athletes.

📚What will you learn:

▪️ Christopher's story and career

▪️ Fascial system/structure and its response to injury

▪️ What research says about Cupping Therapy

▪️ Difference between myofascial decompression and cupping

▪️ The effects of cups with movement on the MSK system

▪️ Advice to clinicians who are starting their careers

▪️ How to become successful in Physical Therapy

🔎Christopher's favorite resource of information:

📲 Christopher's contact information:

🎥Link to interview on Youtube:https://youtu.be/P4Ip9J40_0o

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💭 “People with neck pain have an imbalance between the layers of the muscles. The deep muscles get weaker first ”. - Gwendolen Jull

👉🏻 Our guest is Gwendolen Jull AO, MPhty, Ph.D., FACP.  Gwen Jull is an Emeritus Professor in Physiotherapy at The University of Queensland, Australia. She is a specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapist and a Fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists. Her career has combined teaching, research, and clinical practice. Her research has been concerned with the diagnosis and management of idiopathic neck pain, headache, and whiplash-associated disorders and quantifying the dysfunction in the cervical motor system. Gwen has taught nationally and internationally and has published over 350 articles, 40 book chapters as well as three textbooks, the most recent being the 2019 text ‘Management of neck pain disorders: A research-informed approach Elsevier, UK’. Gwen is also the co-editor of the international journal, Musculoskeletal Science and Practice.

📚What will you learn:

▪️ Gwen's story and career

▪️ Idiopathic neck pain and its symptoms

▪️ Gwen`s research on neck impairments

▪️ Assessment and management of neck pain

▪️ How to prevent a recurrence

▪️ Advice to clinicians who are starting their careers

▪️ How to become successful in Physical Therapy

🔎Gwendolen's favorite resource of information:

📲 Gwendolen's contact information:

🎥Link to interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/w2hxJt3sAPk

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PT Pro Talk Podcast is only possible with the support of the forward-looking and innovative company Systems 4PT: http://bit.ly/3tPCQAU

💭 “MDT has great potential to be used as a biopsychosocial assessment and management tool”. - Thanos Kontos

👉🏻 Our guest is Thanos Kontos PT, MSc (Pain), Dip MDT.  Thanos graduated as a physiotherapist in 2012, in Greece. He completed the Diploma in Mechanical Diagnosis & Therapy (Dip MDT), in 2019 and started his master's degree in pain sciences, at the University of Athens in Greece. He became a faculty member of the McKenzie Institute at the end of 2022. He works as a specialist musculoskeletal clinical physiotherapist in private practice, dealing with the diagnosis and management of complex conditions, and has a special interest in chronic/persistent musculoskeletal pain. He has participated as a speaker and as a member of the scientific and organizational committee in scientific meetings and conferences and since 2015 he has been a scientific associate of the McKenzie Institute Hellas-Cyprus. He is a member of the Hellenic Society of Algology.

📚What will you learn:

▪️ Thanos's story and career

▪️ Evidence-practice gap in the biopsychosocial model

▪️  How MDT fits in the biopsychosocial framework

▪️ The drivers of pain and disability

▪️ The cornerstones of an MDT biopsychosocial approach

▪️ Advice to clinicians who are starting their careers

▪️ How to become successful in Physical Therapy

🔎Thanos's favorite resource of information:

📲 Thanos's contact information:

🎥Link to interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/1w4mZykZpog

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💭 ```The evidence says that therapeutic touch has some effect if it is part of a multi-modal approach to most conditions MSK-wise, but it does not matter how you do that``. - Dr. Roger Kerry

👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Roger Kerry, PT, MSc, PhD. Qualified as a Physiotherapist at Pinderfields School of Physiotherapy, Leeds University (1996). Gained MSc in Manipulative Physiotherapy at Coventry University (2001), also gaining membership of the Manipulation Association of Chartered Physiotherapists. Worked as Clinical Specialist and Extended Scope Practitioner in Orthopaedics before starting as a lecturer at Nottingham. Current post is Associate Professor in the Division of Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Nottingham. Became an Honorary Fellow of the Musculoskeletal Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in 2011. PhD thesis: Causation and Evidence-Based Medicine (supervisor: Professor Stephen Mumford) Member of the International Federation of Orthopaedic Manipulative Physical Therapist working group for International Framework for Examination of the Cervical Region for the potential of Cervical Arterial Dysfunction prior to Orthopaedic Manual Therapy Intervention 2007-2017.

📚What will you learn:

▪️ Roger's story and career

▪️ About his new article coming up

▪️ Traditional manual therapy (MT) and its principles

▪️ Current evidence about MT

▪️ The clinical and cost-effectiveness of MT

▪️ The new framework proposed

▪️ Advice to clinicians who are starting their careers

▪️ How to become successful in Physical Therapy

🔎Roger's favorite resource of information:

📲 Roger's contact information:

🎥Link to interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/xmu8FVjCqTI

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PT Pro Talk Podcast is only possible with the support of the forward-looking and innovative company Systems 4PT: http://bit.ly/3tPCQAU

💭 ``What creates the best patient experience is to clearly communicate, and that means from the front office to the therapist, anybody interacting with the patient, the clearer the communication the better``. - Dr. Heidi Jannenga

👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Heidi Jannenga, PT, DPT, ATC. Heidi is the co-founder and Chief Clinical Officer of WebPT, and advocates for the rehab therapy profession on a national and international scale. Prior to co-founding WebPT, Heidi practiced as a physical therapist for more than 15 years. Heidi is an APTA member, belonging to both the private practice and sports medicine sections, and she's on the board of directors for the Institute for Private Practice Physical Therapy and the Alliance of Physical Therapists for Quality and Innovation. In 2015, she won the Arizona Physical Therapy Association’s Physical Therapist of the Year Award, and in 2018, she received the APTA’s coveted Marilyn Moffat Leadership Award. Today, she regularly speaks as a subject-matter expert at regional, national and international PT industry conferences as well as technology, entrepreneurship, and leadership events.

📚What will you learn:

▪️ Heidi's story and career

▪️ Key trends, challenges, and opportunities impacting the industry.

▪️ Burnout problem in PT

▪️ Employee (PTs) retention and satisfaction

▪️ How to better attract, retain, and satisfy patients

▪️ The drivers of patient-perceived PT success

▪️ Advice to clinicians who are starting their careers

▪️ How to become successful in Physical Therapy

🔎Reports:

📲 Heidi's contact information:

🎥Link to interview on Youtube:https://youtu.be/WEM0frPVUm0

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📩Email: [email protected]

PT Pro Talk Podcast is only possible with the support of the forward-looking and innovative company Systems 4PT: http://bit.ly/3tPCQAU

💭 ``Strengthening is critical in life, slow deliberate, good form, end range movement to failure or muscular fatigue, 10 to 15 repetitions, and then rest, rest is the key``. - Dr. Thomas Dreisinger

👉🏻Our guest is Thomas Dreisinger, Ph.D. Dr. Dreisinger has a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. In the late 1980s, he began clinical work in the assessment, management, and treatment of patients with chronic back and neck pain. His background spans nearly 40 years of clinical experience in rehabilitation, orthopedics, and physical medicine. He has presented scientific papers both in the United States and abroad on topics related to the management of chronic back pain patients and clinical outcomes. He has published articles in biomedical journals including Spine, Orthopedics, Journal of Rheumatology, Sports Medicine, Paraplegia, and Cardiac Rehabilitation. Additionally, he has provided successful venture-funded injury prevention programs in Upper Extremity and Spine for Fortune 500 companies including Tyson Foods, United/Northwest Airlines, and 3M. He has owned conservative care rehabilitation practices treating musculoskeletal injuries of the back and neck. Dreisinger has served as a member of the North American Spine Society, a fellow in the American Back Society, and is an Emeritus Fellow in the American College of Sports Medicine. He has served on national and international Boards including Trustee for the McKenzie Institute International, Chair of the McKenzie International Research Foundation, The Vert Mooney Foundation, and the North American Spine Foundation.

📚What will you learn:

▪️ Thomas's story and career

▪️  Role in the MDT world over the years

▪️ Combining MDT and strengthening for lasting results

▪️ Benefits of resistive training

▪️ Cardio vs flexibility vs balance vs strength

▪️ Prevention program implementation in big companies

▪️ Advice to clinicians who are starting their careers

▪️ How to become successful in Physical Therapy

🔎Thomas's favorite resource of information:

📲 Thomas’s contact information:

🎥Link to interview on Youtube:https://youtu.be/KdRIlgmTq9E

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PT Pro Talk Podcast is only possible with the support of the forward-looking and innovative company Systems 4PT: http://bit.ly/3tPCQAU

💭 ``In the mobilization with movement concept, it would be applying different forces across the tissues of the body, to see if we can eliminate or immediately change those comparable signs``. - Dr. Eric Dinkins

👉🏻Our guest is Eric M. Dinkins, PT, MSPT, DPT, OCS,  Cert. MT, CMP, MCTA, CDN.  Eric is a graduate from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and has been practicing since 2001. He has earned postgraduate certifications in Manipulative Therapy and is a Certified Mulligan Practitioner with the Mulligan Concept ™ of manual therapy. He earned his Board Certification as an Orthopedic Clinical Specialist through the American Physical Therapy Association. He has been an accredited member of the Mulligan Concept Teacher Association since 2014 and serves as the secretary in the International Executive Committee. Eric has an extensive sports medicine background, has worked closely with physicians from the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic in Denver, and has treated athletes from youth, to Olympic, and  professional levels. He is a published author in both Journal of Manual and Manipulative  Therapy and Manual Therapy. He was a keynote speaker at the International Mulligan Conference in 2009.

📚What will you learn:

▪️ Eric's story and career

▪️ Mobilization with Movement (MWM) into the examination

▪️ MWM as a treatment tool

▪️ When to use MWM and its results

▪️ HEP with MWM

▪️ Advice to clinicians who are starting their careers

▪️ How to become successful in Physical Therapy

🔎Eric 's favorite resource of information:

📲Eric ’s contact information:

🎥Link to interview on Youtube:https://youtu.be/hA31lG6aJ5Y

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PT Pro Talk Podcast is only possible with the support of the forward-looking and innovative company Systems 4PT: http://bit.ly/3tPCQAU

💭 “Often, 60 to 70% of my patients that are coming in for dizziness, I am treating them as cervicogenic dizziness which I would say is a cervical derangement.” - Bridget Scholljegerdes

👉🏻Our guest is Bridget Scholljegerdes, PT, Cert. MDT. Bridget is the clinical director of Fyzical Therapy and Balance Center in Las Cruces, NM.  Bridget graduated as a physical therapist from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1999.  She has worked in multiple settings including acute, rehab, SNF, and hospital-based outpatient, and has found her home in private practice outpatient for the last 12 years. Bridget was certified in MDT in 2014.  Her interests in PT are all things mechanical diagnosis and therapy and helping people who suffer from chronic pain utilizing capnometry, breathing mechanics, and World of Hurt education. She also treats SIJ dysfunctions.  Her newfound special interest and 60% of her patients suffer from cervicogenic dizziness.  Bridget is the owner and head coach at Elevate Gymnastics & Athletics.  Her other passion is helping gymnasts have a healthy, strong, and long career in gymnastics and then become healthy adults. She is a wife, mother, and gymnastics judge who loves to travel, workout, triathlons, and building character.

📚What will you learn:

▪️ Bridget's story and career

▪️ Dizziness classification

▪️ Vertigo vs Dizziness

▪️ Assessing and treating cervicogenic dizziness with MDT

▪️ Assessing and treating tinnitus with MDT

▪️ Advice to clinicians who are starting their careers

▪️ How to become successful in Physical Therapy

🔎Bridget 's favorite resource of information:

📲Bridget ’s contact information:

IG: @BSCHOLLJEGERDES

Email: [email protected]

🎥Link to interview on Youtube:https://youtu.be/yDBLFTlDWiA

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💻LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pt-pro-talk

📩Email: [email protected]

PT Pro Talk Podcast is only possible with the support of the forward-looking and innovative company Systems 4PT: http://bit.ly/3tPCQAU