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SCAPTA
SCAPTA has several upcoming CEU opportunities! Lower Coastal District, Midlands and Upstate — you’re all coming up next. Check out the details here.
SCAPTA
APTA is committed to providing physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, students, and prospective students, with valuable tools and information to help facilitate making the best financial decisions possible. The APTA Financial Education Program, powered by Enrich, is a customized online financial education platform. The program uses videos, chats, webinars, quizzes, articles and more to give you an individualized experience in financial and debt education.
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Newsmax Health
The health benefits of exercise are well-established for people of all ages. But until now, little has been known about which type of exercise best counters the aging process in senior citizens.
The answer may be high-intensity interval training, suggests a new study published in Cell Metabolism by researchers from the Mayo Clinic.
High-intensity interval training alternates short bursts of intense aerobic activity such as biking or walking with short periods of easing up on the same activity.
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University of Rochester Medical Center via Medical Xpress
Patients who went partially blind after suffering a stroke regained large swaths of rudimentary sight after undergoing visual training designed by researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center's Flaum Eye Institute.
A new study in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, provides the first evidence that rigorous visual training recovers basic vision in cortically blind patients who suffered stroke damage in the primary visual cortex. Damage to this area of the brain prevents visual information from getting to other brain regions that help make sense of it, causing loss of sight in one-quarter to one-half of an individual's normal field of view.
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Jewish Exponent
There's incredible technology coming out of Israel for use in the biomedical field worldwide — artificial intelligence, robotics and neurosciences.
A lot of that technology isn’t lost on older adults. In fact, some is being used to rehabilitate patients or help restore their balance, giving them more control and freedom in their lives.
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Physical Therapy Products
Being overweight/obese could have a negative effect on one’s muscular endurance, particularly in the large postural muscles of the shoulder and lower back, and this could contribute to workplace injuries and workers’ compensation claims, according to a recent study.
The study, from researchers at the Texas A&M School of Public Health and the University of Buffalo, and published in the journal Human Factors, points to a need for new ergonomics research focusing more on overweight/obese individuals in the workforce.
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PT in Motion
Researchers from the Mayo Clinic announced that they have successfully replicated an earlier study that used spinal cord electrical stimulation to help an individual intentionally move his paralyzed legs. The latest success, reported in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, was achieved in less than 2 weeks after beginning the stimulation program, and included 22 weeks of extensive physical therapy beforehand. Authors of the study include Meegan Van Straaten, PT, and Megan Gill, DPT.
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Duke University
For most of us, the word “Zika” instantly conjures up the image of an infant with an abnormally small head caused by microcephaly, being held by a distraught parent in South America. But many of the common symptoms of congenital Zika syndrome — and the resulting neurological and developmental complications — will stay with those babies throughout their entire lives. In addition to microcephaly, these symptoms range from brain and eye anomalies to orthopedic issues such as club foot and joint problems.
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BuildPT
Today, you’ll be exposed to more than 6,000 brands, each trying to be distinct. Each vying for your attention. And each adding a layer of noise into your already complex world.
It’s tiring to think about it. And, it’s a problem for each one of those 6,000 brands trying to compete for a sliver of your mind-share. As physical therapists marketing our message to an audience who still largely misunderstands our value, our work is even harder. That is, unless we use a tool we’re already quite good at: getting personal.
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