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SCAPTA
If so, thank you for attending the SCAPTA Annual Conference, April 13-14, in Charleston. Your feedback is very important to us. As part of the process for obtaining your CEU certificate, we will ask you to answer a few survey questions.
To claim your CEU credits: Please be sure to have you APTA member ID and password ready (nonmembers should use the username and password set up as part of the online registration process). Note that you must have registered for the conference in order to obtain your CEU certificate:
- Please login to your APTA Learning Center account at http://learningcenter.apta.org.
- If you do not know your login information, please contact Member Services at 800/999-2782 or MemberServices@apta.org. Typically, your user ID will be your APTA member ID or email address. If you do not remember your password, please use the Forgot Password link.
- Once logged into the APTA Learning Center, highlight My Learning Activities, and click on My Courses.
- Locate the desired course under the complete tab, and select the Certificate button to obtain your certificate.
If you have questions or experience any problems, please contact the SCAPTA office at southcarolina@apta.org.
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Advances in Nutrition
The Dietary Reference Intakes set the protein RDA for persons >19 y of age at 0.8 g protein x kg body weight−1 x d−1. A growing body of evidence suggests, however, that the protein RDA may be inadequate for older individuals. The evidence for recommending a protein intake greater than the RDA comes from a variety of metabolic approaches.
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American College of Sports Medicine
Sleep is an essential component of health and well-being, with significant
impacts on physical development, emotional regulation, cognitive
performance, and quality of life. Along with being an integral part of the
recovery and adaptive process between bouts of exercise, accumulating
evidence suggests that increased sleep duration and improved sleep
quality in athletes are associated with improved performance and competitive
success.
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Aging Edge - Post-Gazette
The CDC says about 1 out of every 4 older adults falls in a year. In 2016 those resulted in 29,668 deaths, and the mortality rate attached to such falls has been increasing about 3 percent annually. Jessie VanSwearingen, a University of Pittsburgh associate professor of physical therapy, has focused on older adults’ mobility and falls prevention issues for the past 20 years as part of her research interests.
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Jackson Sun
Neck pain requires your attention.
Most neck pains are caused by tension and posture issues, but when present, medical problems must be ruled out.
Daily life stressors and anxiety are perhaps the most frequent cause of neck pain, as stress increases the muscle tone in structures of the body that require frequent muscle activation to stabilize, the neck is the primary victim of your stress.
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WebPT
As PTs, we’re often disinclined to promote ourselves, but social media provides excellent opportunities to connect with others and build our brands as clinicians, employers, and entrepreneurs. It can even help us reinvent ourselves to pursue non-traditional physical therapy careers.
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University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository
For runners experiencing plantar fasciitis, what is considered the best physical therapy intervention to reduce pain? Running is a common form of exercise and recreation enjoyed by many people. Injuries often plague runners and of those, plantar fasciitis, an overuse injury to the plantar aponeurosis, is common as it affects roughly 10 percent of runners.
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Business Wire
A new study led by investigators at the Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research, in conjunction with the RAND Corporation and the Samueli Institute, found that patients suffering from low-back pain who received chiropractic care in addition to usual medical care had better short-term improvements in low-back pain intensity and pain-related disability when compared to those who received usual medical care alone.
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Harvard Health
The exact cause of pelvic pain for many women can be elusive, despite lots of tests and scans. In some cases, the symptoms are related to a problem that is often overlooked, says Dr. Eman Elkadry, an instructor in obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School. Pelvic pain may stem from a pelvic floor muscle problem that can be helped by a specialized form of physical therapy known as pelvic physical therapy.
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PR Newswire
A multifaceted approach to treating men with orchialgia and chronic pelvic pain may lead to improvements in quality of life and less pain over time, according to data being presented at the 113th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA).
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By Jarod Carter
 If you’re doing it right, the entire hiring process actually starts long before you need to hire someone. But let’s say you are ready to hire right now. How do you find and choose the best candidate, get them trained in the most efficient way, and fill their treatment schedule as quickly as possible?
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Physical Therapy Oxford Academic Journal
Integrating physical therapy sessions and an online application (e-Exercise) might support people with hip osteoarthritis (OA), knee OA, or both (hip/knee OA) in taking an active role in the management of their chronic condition and may reduce the number of physical therapy sessions.
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PTinMotion
A total of 13 physical therapists from the U.S. will be among the main speakers at the World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT) Congress to be held in Geneva May 2019.
The American PTs will contribute to focused symposia on a wide range of topics including education research, the application of evidence to individual patients, improving mobility of hospital patients, big data, cancer survivor rehabilitation, and diversity in physical therapy.
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