Good Health and A Resource for Functional Reporting in 2013 for Physical Therapists. Elvonda

Are you concerned about the new Medicare mandates for Functional Reporting for therapy services in 2013? Are you and your staff fully equipp...

Good Health and Live Functional Outcomes Webinar Now at PhysicalTherapy.com. Elvonda

How to Effectively Use Outcomes Questionnaires for Federal Quality Reporting, Better Productivity and Better Outcomes is a recorded webinar...

Good Health and Answers about Physical Therapy Functional Status Measures. Elvonda

I'm listening to the National Provider Call that covers the new functional reporting requirements for outpatient therapy services, inclu...

Good Health and Patients Win! Maintenance Therapy Settlement Gets Preliminarily Approval!. Elvonda

Physical therapists' patients can take cheer this holiday season, nestled all snug their beds, with the knowledge that Maintenance Thera...

Good Health and Foundation for Women's Wellness - Women's Health Fellowship Award. Elvonda

The Foundation for Women's Wellness (FWW) is currently seeking applications for medical students (MD and/or PhD, residents and fellows i...

Good Health and Physical Therapist's Private Practice Meeting. Elvonda

WHEN: Saturday, November 10th, 2012 from 12:00 to 3:00pm WHERE: Florida Gulfcoast University FGCU School of Physical Therapy in Ft. Myers....

Good Health and A Physical Therapist Won't Forget. Elvonda

Kudos to physical therapist Paul Gaspar, DPT for not giving up... ...for sitting ten hours listening to testimony affecting physical therapy...

Good Health and Maintenance #PhysicalTherapy Paid by Medicare?. Elvonda

This may be the biggest change to Medicare affecting physical therapists since the March 23rd, 2010 passage of the Patient Protection and Af...

Good Health and Medical Apps for Physical Therapy. Elvonda

Video documentation of the physical therapy note is the future and the iPhone is the logical choice for the clinical handset. Several apps h...

Good Health and Important reminders before completing the pre-approval of therapy services form. Elvonda

First Coast Service Options ' (First Coast�s) Medical Review department is returning a high volume of pre-approval requests for therapy ...

Good Health and Open Notes Can be Transformational for Physical Therapy. Elvonda

I've been using video to record the patient experience in my outpatient physical therapy clinic for several years. I've never share...

Good Health and The Incredible Opacity of Physical Therapy. Elvonda

There is no setting more opaque than physical therapy. Not cardiology. Not orthopedics. Not family practice. Many consumers don't even ...

Good Health and Current Hip Replacement Issues. Elvonda

Hip replacement surgery has come under fire recently, chiefly due to issues concerning metal-on-metal replacement systems. Recalls, lawsuits...

Good Health and Price, not More Visits, Drives Cost Increases in Healthcare. Elvonda

Why should you care? Commercial health care costs are going up - does it matter whether price or patient volume is to blame? Yes. The Town ...

Good Health and Are Physical Therapy Students Risk Averse?. Elvonda

Do physical therapy students always choose the safe alternative? Does $100,000 in debt cause students to vote for the status quo? Do physica...

Good Health and Exercise Prevents Falls in Older Adults but Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Does Not. Elvonda

Older adults falling down at home and elsewhere is a growing problem in the United States. About 30% of older people fall in a year. An upda...

Good Health and Town Hall Meeting Provokes Excitement. Elvonda

The Town Hall at 5:30pm on Thursday, September 13, 2012 at the FPTA Annual Conference & Assembly of Representatives in Daytona Beach was...

Good Health and Why We Have Brains. Elvonda

Neuroscientist Daniel Wopert suggests that human brains evolved for ONE REASON ONLY. To control movement:   Not thinking, not reasoning, no...

Good Health and Is there a physician shortage in America?. Elvonda

Uwe Reinhardt is an economics professor at Princeton and former keynote speaker at the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Annual C...

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MORE INFO ON COMMUNICATING REPRODUCTION OPTIONS Provide clear, easy to understand information of complex genetic techniques and normal anato...

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Ischemic Heart Disease and Women One of the many amazing (and distinguished) cardiologist I am fortunate to know is Dr. Noel Bairey Merz. Re...

Good Health and Taking Routine Blood Pressures in the Physical Therapy Clinic. Elvonda

Physical therapists should be taking routine blood pressures in the physical therapy clinic. We have evidence that physical therapists don...

Good Health and Are we PREPPED for PrEP?. Elvonda

PrEP is short for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis of HIV to prevent transmission of disease. Recent studies have demonstrated that a combination me...

Good Health and Dear Tim, I need your help.... Elvonda

Dear Tim, I need your help. We are trying to spread the word about Medifest Jacksonville on September 12-13. Could you please forward the ...

Good Health and Tim Richardson Running for Secretary of the Florida Physical Therapy Association. Elvonda

Statement: I would be honored to serve my fellow physical therapists as Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Florida Physical Therapy...

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Planning and Intention - A bit more about health and reproduction.   So concluding our journal club today where we had an interesting discus...

Good Health and Legislative Meeting Kicks Off FLPTPP 2012. Elvonda

The Florida Physical Therapists' in Private Practice (FLPTPP) Legislative Committee Meeting kicks off the 2nd Annual FLPTPP Conference t...

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In the Olympics of Teen Pregnancy, The U.S. 'Wins' While Young Women Lose. ? It is known that an association with becoming a teen mo...