This message was sent to ##Email## To advertise in this publication please click here June 3, 2021 .APTA-South Carolina News APTA South Carolina Membership & Awards Committee Chair Open Position See Job description here APTA South Carolina House of Delegates & Town Hall Join APTA South Carolina in a Town Hall meeting July 13, 2021 at 7:00PM. This meeting will be led by Dr. Amber Gadow, APTA South Carolina’s Chief Delegate. Event Description RSVP here Zoom Link .HEALTH PROMOTION AND WELLNESS Total dietary fat intake, fat quality, and health outcomes: A scoping review of systematic reviews of prospective studies Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism We conducted a scoping review of systematic reviews (SRs) on dietary fat intake and health outcomes in human adults within the context of a position paper by the “International Union of Nutritional Sciences Task force on Dietary Fat Quality” tasked to summarize the available evidence and provide dietary recommendations. READ MORE  SPONSORED CONTENT Promoted by Tidelands Be a therapist at the beach Care for patients at the Tidelands region’s only inpatient rehabilitation hospital A network of outpatient rehabilitation care across the Tidelands region Learn more about a career at Tidelands Health Join the Tidelands Health care team Occupational physical activity and longevity in working men and women in Norway The Lancet Public Health Studies suggest that high occupational physical activity increases mortality risk. However, it is unclear whether this association is causal or can be explained by a complex network of socioeconomic and behavioural factors. We aimed to examine the association between occupational physical activity and longevity, taking a complex network of confounding variables into account. READ MORE .INDUSTRY NEWS How recent patient retention trends impact outpatient therapy NetHealth Patient retention is a metric every clinic will struggle with at some point or another, especially among outpatient therapy settings. However, the recent events of the COVID-19 pandemic brought attendance to a screeching halt for all providers at once — and the verdict is still out on just how much patient retention will rise in upcoming months. READ MORE Falls responsible for 90% of injury-related ED and hospital visits among 65+ APTA A new report from CDC highlights the need for more emphasis on falls prevention — including referrals for physical therapy. READ MORE Top 3 ways to speed up your physical therapy documentation WebPT It’s tedious. It’s time-consuming. It’s the one thing most physical therapists wish would go away and never come back: patient documentation. However, documentation is a necessary part of any therapist’s day to day. After all, it not only helps justify your services so you can get reimbursed, but also ensures your patients receive appropriate, high-quality care (among a number of other things). READ MORE Derivation of a risk assessment tool for prediction of long-term pain intensity reduction after physical therapy Dovepress The objective of this study was to develop a tool that predicts failure to achieve a 50% pain intensity reduction by 1) determining the appropriate statistical model to inform the tool and 2) select the model that considers the tradeoff between clinical feasibility and statistical accuracy. READ MORE Study: Time for better risk adjustment in THA, TKA bundled care models APTA Researchers put price tags on comorbidities associated with higher TJA costs and see risk adjustment as a way to counter 'cherry picking.' READ MORE Complex decongestive therapy in the physical therapist management of rosacea-related edema (morbus morbihan syndrome): A case report with a new approach Physical Therapy The aim of this case report was to describe the use of complete decongestive therapy (CDT) with a new approach in the management of a male patient with facial edema related to Morbus Morbihan Syndrome (MMS). READ MORE Nearly half of COVID patients left hospital with loss of physical abilities, study finds Mahoning Matters Although new coronavirus infections, hospitalizations and deaths are plummeting across the U.S., much remains unknown about the lingering consequences of long-COVID months after initial illness, including brain fog, kidney damage and scarred lungs. READ MORE Language matters: Why no one cares about your functional goals Evidence in Motion I’m going to tell you about a little-known secret in the rehab therapy industry. No one cares about those treatment goals you just documented. At least, no one else cares about your patient goals. You obviously care about them, because treatment goals are how you gauge your patients’ progress and fortify your documentation against audits and compliance mishaps. But patients and payers don’t give a hoot about your goals the way you write them today—even though they absolutely need to. READ MORE Adults with cerebral palsy receive significantly less physical therapy News-Medical.Net Adults with cerebral palsy are more likely to experience the debilitating pains of musculoskeletal disorders, but they receive significantly less physical therapy for those ailments, according to a recent study. The findings, published in Disability & Health, analyzed four years of Medicare service claims from community-living older adults with and without cerebral palsy who had one or more ambulatory claims for a musculoskeletal diagnosis. 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