Good Health and California and Florida Physical Therapy Bills Move Forward. Elvonda

Physical therapists across the United States have gotten off to a fast start in 2012, as evidenced by two bills moving forward in California...

Good Health and New Decision Support Tool Prevents Diagnostic Errors. Elvonda

Physical therapists practicing in a direct access setting of performing diagnostic work may find these new tools helpful to maintain a low r...

Good Health and Psst! Want a HOT tip? Form your own Physical Therapist Association.... Elvonda

All kidding aside, newly formed physical therapist associations seem to be a growth industry lately. Full disclosure, I am on the Board of ...

Good Health and Florida Temporary Licensure - From a Ripple to a Wave. Elvonda

I got my first real taste of the less glorious side of politics when I spent 2009 and 2010 passing out flyers, attending fundraisers, and th...

Good Health and Why Politics Is Important to Physical Therapists. Elvonda

Congratulations to Eric Chaconas, DPT of the Florida Government Affairs Committee and and Scott Harp, PhD Vice President of the Florida Phys...

Good Health and Value-based Healthcare Does NOT Reduce Medicare Spending. Elvonda

The blog of the Congressional Budget Office  (CBO) announced yesterday that 30 years of Medicare demonstration projects have failed to show ...

Good Health and Prevent Internet Censorship. Elvonda

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) centralizes the power to regulate the Internet in contents creators: essentially large corporations, like ...

Good Health and New Book on Clinical Decision Support in Physical Therapy. Elvonda

The new book is finally done! Bulletproof Expert Systems began in 2006 when myself and six other physical therapists and physical therapis...

Good Health and Do We Need Physical Therapists or Algorithms?. Elvonda

"Do you use Treatment Based Classification algorithms?" I asked my friend in Florida.   "No", she replied.   "Why...

Good Health and Mary Hayashi Gets Probation. Elvonda

As described on this blog , California Assemblymember Mary Hayashi was arrested for shoplifting on October 28th, 2011. Hayashi received the ...

Good Health and Florida Legislative Session Opens Today!. Elvonda

Florida physical therapists get ready to lobby! The start of the 2012 Florida Legislative session is today, January 10th, 2012. Physical the...

Good Health and Provocative Position by American College of Physicians Calls for "Parsimonious Care". Elvonda

The American College of Physicians (ACP) issued first-of-its-kind guidelines specifically calling for "parsimonious care" Monday. ...

Good Health and Disruptive Innovation in Physical Therapy. Elvonda

Selena Horner noted in her Twitter stream : "Data doesn't create change... stories that evoke emotion create change..." Colla...

Good Health and Chiropractic Services in Florida Have High Error Rate. Elvonda

First Coast Service Options (FCSO) is estimating an improper payment error rate of 39 percent for chiropractic services in Florida for the ...

Good Health and Cognitive Behavior Therapy Over the Telephone Effective for Chronic Widespread Pain. Elvonda

Physical therapists who treat chronic pain patients may be interested in this new randomized controlled trial of 442 patients comparing cogn...

Good Health and MicroSoft Xbox 360 Hackers Assess Gait, Measure Knee Angle. Elvonda

Are you still using your plastic goniometer? Maybe its time to throw it away and get the new Microsoft's Xbox 360 to measure your patien...