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SCAPTA
The 2017 House of Delegates was held this year in Boston on June 19-21. SCAPTA was proudly represented by your 5 delegates: (Adam Smith, Kim Durst, Kathy Smith, Gerald Scibilia, Aaron Embry and our PTA Caucus Representative, Barney Keitt.)
The House of Delegates (House) is an APTA policy-making body comprised of voting chapter delegates, non-voting delegates (the Board of Directors and section, assembly, and PTA Caucus delegates), and consultants.
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PT in Motion
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services may have slowed down the pace at which it is implementing the move toward quality-based payment, but that doesn't mean physical therapists should be taking a business-as-usual attitude.
With the release of its 2018 proposed rule for quality payment, CMS is taking some of the pressure off clinicians and groups with smaller practices or low numbers of Medicare patients to meet Merit-Based Incentive Payment System requirements.
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Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health via Physical Therapy Products
A study conducted by researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health sounds the alarm about the lack of physical activity among children and teens, and its contribution to the growing obesity epidemic among those age groups.
“Activity levels at the end of adolescence were alarmingly low, and by age 19, they were comparable to 60-year-olds,” says the study’s senior author, Vadim Zipunnikov, assistant professor in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Biostatistics, in a media release from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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WebPT
If you’ve ever made a bad hire, you know what a harrowing experience it can be. Not only do you need to have at least one difficult conversation with that employee — or many, if you’re adhering to a documented coaching plan — but you also may have to repeat all the hiring and training steps you already completed to replace that bad hire with a good one. That’s expensive from both a resource and time perspective. But how much does a bad hire cost — exactly? We’ll get to facts and figures in a moment. But first, let’s talk about what constitutes a bad hire.
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Medical News Bulletin
As advances have been made in anesthetic and surgical techniques, patient outcomes following hip arthroplasties have greatly improved. With these developments, formal physical therapy may no longer be necessary for patients, and self-directed therapy may be sufficient. Total hip arthroplasty has undergone drastic advancements over the years that may have adjusted optimal postoperative therapy. Formerly, hip replacements required strict outpatient physical therapy to ensure optimal recovery and return to function. However, with new developments in surgical and anesthetic techniques, postoperative routines may be less strict and rigorous.
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PT in Motion
Researchers analyzing a study of patients with anterior cruciate ligament tears have begun to connect the dots between early indicators of long-term outcomes and the kinds of treatments patients receive. They reached the conclusion that, for at least some, putting off ACL reconstruction surgery in favor of exercise therapy could be the way to go.
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The New York Times
Yoga works as well as physical therapy for relieving back pain, a randomized trial found.
The study, in the Annals of Internal Medicine, included 320 people ages 18 to 64 with moderate and persistent low back pain. Researchers assigned them to either 12 weekly sessions with a yoga instructor, 15 sessions of physical therapy over 12 weeks, or education with a book and periodic newsletters about back pain therapy. They measured pain intensity and disability with well-validated questionnaires.
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WRC-TV
Recently developed technology is making physical therapy more efficient by tracking sports injuries in real time and providing hard data to help develop better recovery plans.
Andy Bird is recovering from ACL surgery in his left leg.
“Today we found out actually that his good leg is the one that needs more work,” physical therapist Sameer Mehta said. Sensors strapped to Bird's shins give Mehta real time data at the Outpatient Physical Therapy Center at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.
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MilitarySpot.com
In a deployed environment, injuries happen. Whether they occur in the performance of duty or through the course of physical exercise, they have the potential to impact the mission.
Each individual in the military, and their ability to perform their duties, plays an important role in the success of the greater mission. For the two-man physical therapy element at the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing, it is their role to keep members fit to fight.
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