Good Health and New Treatment Based Classification Chart with Hyperlinks. Elvonda

These are the Treatment Based Classification rules I've been using the past couple of years. Please use this chart, including the hyperl...

Good Health and Why Do Physical Therapists Need to Track Florida's 2012 Legislative Bills?. Elvonda

I think it was Mark Twain who said: "We should never watch laws or sausage being made, for if we did we would lose our appetite for bot...

Good Health and Support New York Physical Therapists' CoPayment Legislation. Elvonda

Physical therapists will again put CoPayment reform legislation before the New York legislature in 2012. Twice now the legislation has been ...

Good Health and Healthcare CEOs Richest 1% in North America. Elvonda

Healthcare CEOs are the among the richest American executives across all industries. Three of the top-earning 10 executives across all indu...

Good Health and Distracted Doctoring Raises Risks For Patients. Elvonda

This free New York Times article discribes a disturbing trend for which peer-reviewed research is just beginning to emerge: nurses and doct...

Good Health and Sitting Disease Cured by Exercise!. Elvonda

Good Health and Fair CoPayment Web Page Now Online at APTA. Elvonda

The new American Physical Therapy Assocation (APTA)  Fair CoPayment web page went live on December 7th, 2011. Physical therapists advocatin...

Good Health and The Process of Profitability. Elvonda

Physical therapists can learn from this highly successful company. They sell 10% af all the furniture in the world, they made $30 BILLION i...

Good Health and Hospitals Bounce Back but Florida Physical Therapists May Still Get the "Take Back Letter". Elvonda

Florida physical therapsists may still be on the hook, beginning January 1, 2012, resulting in the dreaded "Take Back Letter" from...

Good Health and The Art and Science of Physical Therapy. Elvonda

The 2011 Oxford Debate at the APTA Annual Conference in Washington DC pitted clinical decision rules - algorithms - against clincial intuiti...

Good Health and Primary Care Physicians Call for Exercises to Treat Lower Back Pain. Elvonda

Wiser words were never spoke in addressing the paradox of payment for lower back pain and physical therapy treatments. Read on... "We...

Good Health and Name That Country Quiz!. Elvonda

Can you name this country? Primary care physicians earn 20% more than specialty physicians in this country. This country has highly coordina...

Good Health and Can Physical Therapists Replace Physicians as Primary Care Providers in Hospitals?. Elvonda

Doom-and-gloom futurists project a "doctor shortage" in the United States but new studies increasingly support the roll of non-phy...

Good Health and An Open and Fruitful Discussion. Elvonda

Hi All, First off, kudos to Iris, Shayne and Yeshika for coordinating a terrific session last night. Also kudos to our panelists - Matt, Emi...

Good Health and Skill Not Will - A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER. Elvonda

At the most recent Association of American Medical Colleges conferences, there was a presentation by Joseph Gerry from Vitalsmarts   who tal...

Good Health and From little time to more - Listing of opportunities for you. Elvonda

INVOLVED!!!! Come spend time with us at WHEP . 1. Get information about a topic you are learning about or exploring. Just stop in - check wi...

Good Health and HIV Virus May Hide in Brain. Elvonda

FRIDAY, Aug. 27 (HealthDay News) -- The brain can be a convenient hiding place for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. That's the finding o...

Good Health and September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. Elvonda

ovarian cancer: is the fifth most common cancer in women. It is a cancer that forms in tissues of the ovary. There are three types: 1) thos...

Good Health and Sex and Gender Medicine - A Lens for Evaluating Sociocultural Determinants of Disease. Elvonda

It used to be good enough to be smart - good in science; good at figuring things out. When you only have penicillin or sulfa, then just maki...

Good Health and The Female Pattern of Heart Disease. Elvonda

Welcome back! Some day, heart disease will not be the biggest killer of people in the U.S. And someday, despite higher risks in men - simila...

Good Health and Advocating For Patients. Elvonda

Two weeks ago, on April 7th 2011, I attended the Planned Parenthood lobby and rally day in Washington DC. It was my very first real use of t...