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...