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When I graduated PT school, I wanted nothing more than to be an employee for the rest of my life.

4 years later, I'm running my private oncology PT practice.  

WTF.

In this episode, we’re going behind the scenes on this whirlwind adventure of how I’m now helping those with cancer in my community.  It’s been challenging, but exceptionally rewarding.

Even if you never want to open your own practice, I highly encourage you to give this episode a listen.  We go over mistakes I made along the way, which apply no matter your setting, & how to focus on what's truly most important in your practice: helping people with cancer live their best lives.

Show notes: https://TheOncoPT.com/199

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Are you frustrated by a lack of patients or awareness about cancer rehab?  

Then it might be time for an inservice!  

An inservice is a powerful method of communicating with your community.  I actually have a 100% conversion rate from inservice attendee to patient.  

Yea.  They’re that powerful.

In today’s episode, I cover my 10-step checklist for creating & delivering a killer inservice, so you can get more patients, more community awareness, & more medical practitioners who understand how cancer rehab helps our patients.

Listen now!

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Since breast cancer survivors often undergo many rounds of treatment (& multiple types of treatment), their list of side effects & impairments can be quite long.

So how do we prioritize the impairments to tackle first when it seems like everything is the #1 problem?

In this episode, you’ll learn the 3 questions you need to be asking during the eval to streamline your process & actually start helping the patient faster.

🎓 FREE TRAINING: From Confused to Confident — a 4-step framework (SCAN) for decoding any question on your oncology specialist exam. Free at https://TheOncoPT.com/scan

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Studying for the Oncology Specialty exam was really challenging for a number of reasons. But one of the biggest was trying to piece together information from a bunch of resources, including articles written BEFORE I WAS BORN.

In research land, that's like a billion years ago.

Unfortunately, the available textbooks aren't much better.

Until now...

Drs. Deb Doherty, Lori Boright, & Chris Wilson have edited & compiled a tremendous brand new textbook that is designed just for us.

Written for rehab clinicians, by rehab clinicians. 

About time.

They go behind the scenes of the creation of this textbook, what inspired this amazing work, what they included, what they'll include in the next edition, & more.

Pre-order the book with my affiliate link Oncology Rehabilitation: A Comprehensive Guidebook for Clinicians!

🎓 FREE TRAINING: From Confused to Confident — a 4-step framework (SCAN) for decoding any question on your oncology specialist exam. Free at https://TheOncoPT.com/scan

🎄 Christmas in July: Get the Complete Oncology Specialist Package (Bootcamp + Case Report Writing Workshop + MOSC course) at our lowest price of the year — through July 31st. Join now and get the MOSC course free at launch: https://TheOncoPT.com/SPECIALIST

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Cancer is quickly rising as one of the most common diagnoses people will experience.  Rehab professionals MUST be able to confidently & competently treat a patient with cancer.  

However, most of us don’t learn this in school.  We may take some scattered continuing education courses, but still have to figure most of it out on our own.

Our time is far too precious for that, & our patients need us now.  So here’s how we fix this: the Cancer Basics 2-Day Intensive Course!

As we announced last week, we launched our brand new Cancer Basics 2-Day Intensive Course!  

Because we can’t contain our excitement, I invited Dr. Kelly Sturm back on the podcast to talk about some of our favorite parts of this course & why we know you’ll looooooove it too!

🎓 FREE TRAINING: From Confused to Confident — a 4-step framework (SCAN) for decoding any question on your oncology specialist exam. Free at https://TheOncoPT.com/scan

📝 The Practice Exam Bundle is here year-round — no deadline on this one. 150 original case-based questions across 3 timed exams, with full rationales. $249 for all three.

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Breast cancer is pretty much THE diagnosis you’re guaranteed to see in OncoPT.  

It’s one of the most common cancer diagnoses, plus the benefits of rehab in this population are well-researched.

But just because it’s the most common, doesn’t mean we can gloss over the basics of breast cancer.  Every PT must understand the fundamentals of breast cancer, so that we can best help our patients.  

What you’ll take away from this episode is what is breast cancer, how is it diagnosed, what to know about treatment, & why we need to revisit breast cancer frequently as OncoPTs.

🎓 FREE TRAINING: From Confused to Confident — a 4-step framework (SCAN) for decoding any question on your oncology specialist exam. Free at https://TheOncoPT.com/scan

🎄 Christmas in July: Get the Complete Oncology Specialist Package (Bootcamp + Case Report Writing Workshop + MOSC course) at our lowest price of the year — through July 31st. Join now and get the MOSC course free at launch: https://TheOncoPT.com/SPECIALIST

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Like it or not, people with cancer are here to stay.  This means every rehab professional *MUST* be ready to treat them, because we will see them at some point in our career.  

No matter the setting.  

No matter the specialty.  

No matter what.

Unfortunately, many rehab pros don’t know the first thing to do when an oncology patient pops up on their schedule.  Enter the Cancer Basics Course.

Along with Dr. Kelly Sturm of @CancerRehabPT, we’ve created a brand new 2-day intensive course that is going to blow any confusion around cancer rehab right out of the water.

Ready to feel confident & competent when treating a person with cancer?  Then sign up now.

🎓 FREE TRAINING: From Confused to Confident — a 4-step framework (SCAN) for decoding any question on your oncology specialist exam. Free at https://TheOncoPT.com/scan

🎄 Christmas in July: Get the Complete Oncology Specialist Package (Bootcamp + Case Report Writing Workshop + MOSC course) at our lowest price of the year — through July 31st. Join now and get the MOSC course free at launch: https://TheOncoPT.com/SPECIALIST

📝 The Practice Exam Bundle is here year-round — no deadline on this one. 150 original case-based questions across 3 timed exams, with full rationales. $249 for all three.

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While sarcomas make up less than 1% of all cancer diagnoses, their impact is astronomically large.

So even though these diagnoses are rare, you WILL encounter these patients at least once in your OncoPT career.  

We'd better be prepared then.

Lucky for us, Dr. Jen Bernstein is a board certified oncologic clinical specialist who specializes in pediatric oncology, especially osteosarcomas.  

Jen stopped by the podcast  to give us a masterclass on osteosarcomas & how PTs help this unique patient population. 

🎓 FREE TRAINING: From Confused to Confident — a 4-step framework (SCAN) for decoding any question on your oncology specialist exam. Free at https://TheOncoPT.com/scan

🎄 Christmas in July: Get the Complete Oncology Specialist Package (Bootcamp + Case Report Writing Workshop + MOSC course) at our lowest price of the year — through July 31st. Join now and get the MOSC course free at launch: https://TheOncoPT.com/SPECIALIST

📝 The Practice Exam Bundle is here year-round — no deadline on this one. 150 original case-based questions across 3 timed exams, with full rationales. $249 for all three.

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When we first start in oncology physical therapy, it can be easy to feel behind.

Like we don't know enough, that we can't learn fast enough to truly help our patients. 

In the quest to becoming an expert clinician, we sometimes miss out on the TRULY important lessons that make us the best PT possible. 

In today's episode, Elise guides you through the lessons PT school didn't teach you, that you really need to be a better OncoPT, even when you're brand new. 


Episode show notes: https://theOncoPT.com/ep191

🎓 FREE TRAINING: From Confused to Confident — a 4-step framework (SCAN) for decoding any question on your oncology specialist exam. Free at https://TheOncoPT.com/scan

🎄 Christmas in July: Get the Complete Oncology Specialist Package (Bootcamp + Case Report Writing Workshop + MOSC course) at our lowest price of the year — through July 31st. Join now and get the MOSC course free at launch: https://TheOncoPT.com/SPECIALIST

📝 The Practice Exam Bundle is here year-round — no deadline on this one. 150 original case-based questions across 3 timed exams, with full rationales. $249 for all three.

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Osteosarcoma is now commonly treated with chemotherapy & surgery, including rotationplasty. I have never seen a rotationplasty in real life...YET.

I say yet, because I fully expect we will see one at some point in our careers. So we better prepare for that day.

While there's a lot of details about a rotationplasty, today's episode covers 5 basic concepts that you absolutely MUST know about rotationplasty.

For all the resources mentioned in today's episode, visit TheOncoPT for the complete show notes.

🎓 FREE TRAINING: From Confused to Confident — a 4-step framework (SCAN) for decoding any question on your oncology specialist exam. Free at https://TheOncoPT.com/scan

🎄 Christmas in July: Get the Complete Oncology Specialist Package (Bootcamp + Case Report Writing Workshop + MOSC course) at our lowest price of the year — through July 31st. Join now and get the MOSC course free at launch: https://TheOncoPT.com/SPECIALIST

📝 The Practice Exam Bundle is here year-round — no deadline on this one. 150 original case-based questions across 3 timed exams, with full rationales. $249 for all three.

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