Good Health and Cardiovascular Damage From Extreme Endurance Exercise . Elvonda

This post is a slight rest from policy and reimbursement issue for physical therapists on this blog. I include this 21-minute video by card...

Good Health and Why Physical Therapists Should Care About Interoperability. Elvonda

I just got back from the 2013 Florida Perspectives: Transforming Healthcare through Health Information Technology on Friday, July 19th, 3013...

Good Health and RAC Activity Increasing, But Will They Hit Physical Therapists?. Elvonda

New data seems to show the Recovery Audit Contractor program is increasing its denial of claims by providers.  Physical therapist managers w...

Good Health and This is Only a Test.... Elvonda

Functional Reporting for Medicare in 2013 is only a test. If Functional Reporting were true outcomes reporting physical therapists would nee...

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 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...

Good Health and Private Practice Physical Therapists' Continuing Education. Elvonda

Click the image to get continuing education for Private Practice Physical Therapists: See you in Orlando!

Good Health and British Physical Therapists Gain Prescribing Rights. Elvonda

"This is a truly historic day..." The 51,000 British physical therapists (physiotherapists) can now become trained to independentl...

Good Health and Marcus Welby is Dead. Elvonda

"It's the death knoll of the private practice..." said Kurt Mosley, vice president of strategic lliances for Merritt Hawkins ...

Good Health and How to Tell Your Patient Their MRI is Unneccesary. Elvonda

Thanks to EIM faculty member Dr. Jason R. Rodeghero for this fun, thought-provoking video. Physical therapists can educate their patients ...

Good Health and How to Open a Private Practice in line with APTA's Vision 2020. Elvonda

Intended for Physical Therapists new to Private Practice! This course presents an introduction for healthcare professionals looking to open...

Good Health and Medicare ACOs Grow 38% in Six Months. Elvonda

Physical Therapists are keenly interested in the possibility of Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACO). Private practice and corporat...

Good Health and Should Physical Therapists Stop Manipulating the Cervical Spine?. Elvonda

The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (Great Britain) posted this announcement on June 8, 2012: Stop spinal manipulation for neck pain, war...

Good Health and Are Patients Protected from Healthcare Algorithms?. Elvonda

Physical therapists are considering algorithms, such as Treatment Based Classification , to help improve patient care. But, according to ...

Good Health and Adverse Reponse to Exercise: Rare or Common?. Elvonda

We just don't know. This study Adverse Metabolic Response to Regular Exercise: Is It a Rare or Common Occurrence? was reported in PLoS...

Good Health and Telehealth Potential Remains, Trapped by Regulations and Licensure Barriers. Elvonda

Dr. Alan Lee's Perspective article in the December 2011 Physical Therapy journal offers hope tempered with a dose of pragmatic reality ...

Good Health and FOTO and AthletiCo Proudly Show Physical Therapy Outcomes Tool. Elvonda

From AthletiCo and Focus on Therapeutic Outcomes (FOTO). This is an excellent demonstration of where all physical therapists are heading - t...

Good Health and Direct Access to Physical Therapists Can Reduce the Physician Shortage. Elvonda

Think physical therapists have it rough because our patients don't have direct access to our services? State laws preventing direct acce...