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SCAPTA
A fellow member needs your help. Yves Gege is clinical coordinator for the 2018 South Carolina Special Olympics Games. He needs PT & PTA clinicians and students to help with FUNfitness screenings on Saturday, May 12, 2018 from 11:30 am - 4:00 pm EST at Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina. Please contact Yves Gege (pronounced 'Eve Gai-Gai' - Swedish Roots) at 843-442-9741 or yves@made2movept.com. Any interest and help is greatly appreciated to provide this free service to the athletes at the Olympic Village.
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SCAPTA
The abstracts and proposals submission site for NEXT 2019, June 12-15, in Chicago, is now open. Members are encouraged to submit proposals as follows:
Education session and preconference course proposals – Due July 23, 2018
Research poster presentation submissions – Due October 1, 2018
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| | HEALTH PROMOTION AND WELLNESS |
Journal: Circulation
Americans have a shorter life expectancy compared with residents of almost all other high-income countries. We aim to estimate the impact of lifestyle factors on premature mortality and life expectancy in the U.S. population. During up to 34 years of follow-up, we documented 42,167 deaths. Adopting a healthy lifestyle could substantially reduce premature mortality and prolong life expectancy in U.S. adults.
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New England Journal of Medicine
The increase in heart rate that accompanies exercise is due in part to a reduction in vagal tone. Recovery of the heart rate immediately after exercise is a function of vagal reactivation. Because a generalized decrease in vagal activity is known to be a risk factor for death, we hypothesized that a delayed fall in the heart rate after exercise might be an important prognostic marker.
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Bloomberg Law
The Medicare agency is warning managed care plans that it will penalize them if they discriminate against beneficiaries based on their health conditions when the agency starts next year to allow plans to offer different benefits, premiums, and coinsurance to some enrollees.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said it will watch for plans targeting additional supplemental benefits and discounted cost sharing for beneficiaries with some diseases, while excluding those with higher-cost conditions, the agency said in a memorandum to plans.
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PPS Impact
Communication and connection — they go hand in hand when your patient arrives for their initial evaluation. From the first impression at the front office, to your thorough diagnostic testing and treatment skills, the patient experience must be positive and encouraging. Leaving your impressive brand with the patient will help you as an owner, director, and therapist meet the needs of the patient from both a physical and emotional perspective.
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WebPT
Kylie McKee writes: If you’ve ever been ballroom dancing, then you know how important it is to communicate effectively with your dance partner. Heck, even if your experience with whirling around a dance floor is limited to weddings and high school proms, you surely know that dance partners must move together to avoid stepping on each other’s toes.
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PT in Motion
In news that may surprise exactly no one, researchers have found that people aged 50 years and older tend to overestimate the level of physical activit) they accomplish — and Americans tend to be more generous with their estimations than people in other nations, or at least more so than people from England and the Netherlands.
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PT in Motion
Physical therapists (PTs) and physical therapist assistants (PTAs) have long understood the connection between mobility, physical activity, and the prevention of society's most serious health conditions. Some committed PTs say now's the time to start sharing that understanding at the community level.
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PPS Impact
Outpatient physical therapy is a unique slice of the health care pie. Few, if any, other disciplines have relatively healthy patients who attend so frequently and for treatment sessions that are long in minutes and personal in nature. If you think about it abstractly and say, “I am going to pay to spend a few hours a week at this physical therapy clinic with no guarantee of success,” it seems like a proposition few would take or at least take with a heavy dose of skepticism.
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