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PT in Motion
The patient or client who is transgender faces a host of issues, both physical and cultural, that can have a very real impact on how a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant provides treatment. This month's issue of PT in Motion magazine explores some of those issues, and offers a few tips on how PTs and PTAs can uphold a core ethical principle of a profession that charges its members to respect the inherent dignity and rights of all individuals.
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WebPT
Typically, businesses – especially small businesses – pick one lucky employee to attend a relevant conference. In health care, the plot thickens a bit, because practitioners need to complete continuing education units to maintain their licenses. It’s inevitable in private practice that, at some point, more than one lucky employee will get to attend the same conference at the same time—when the stars align and scheduling (or CEU necessity) allow for it. But that's not cause for stress; in fact, sending groups to conferences is actually a good thing.
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PT in Motion
Amid a national conversation about how to safely treat chronic pain comes a new study that reinforces the idea that interdisciplinary rehabilitation can improve function and quality of life for individuals with chronic pain, even in instances when significant pain reduction itself is not possible.
In an article published in Pain Research and Treatment, researchers from the Mayo Clinic Department of Pain Medicine in Jacksonville, Florida, tracked functional outcomes among 132 patients enrolled in a 3-week interdisciplinary rehabilitation program for individuals with chronic pain.
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Physical Therapy Products
A University of Irvine survey suggests that concussion is prevalent among water polo players, with 36 percent of participants stating that they have experienced a concussion either during the game or in practice.
The online survey, conduced by Dr Steven L. Small and James Hicks from the Department of Neurology, included more than 44,000 USA Water Polo Members.
More than 1,500 responses were received. From the responses, the researchers determined that 36 percent of respondents reported at least one concussion during water polo play, with an average of 2.14 concussions per person, according to a media release from University of California, Irvine.
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Newsmax
The cancer treatment chemotherapy leaves many patients with balance problems, but researchers are finding that teaching them tango may help.
Statistics show that chemotherapy, one of the most common cancer treatments, can leave 70 percent of patients with peripheral neuropathy within a month after treatment, and after six months, one-third are still struggling with this condition.
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Multiple Sclerosis News Today
Helius Medical Technologies announced results of a pilot study, demonstrating the benefits of PoNS Therapy – a combination of the investigational Portable Neuromodulation Stimulator device with physical therapy – in patients with advanced multiple sclerosis. Specifically, the treatment was seen to improve both patients' quality of life, and physical and cognitive abilities.
The study, "Can Exercise Combined with Cranial Nerve Non-Invasive Neuromodulation Improve Mobility in Non-Ambulatory People with MS? a Case Study Series" was developed by researchers at the Tactile Communication and Neurorehabilitation Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin, and presented at the recent Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers 2016 Annual Meeting in National Harbor, Maryland.
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The Medical News
In a surprising reversal, researchers have determined that a particular protocol providing physical therapy to ICU patients with acute respiratory failure did not shorten hospital length of stay.
Secondary measures of physical function and health-related quality of life were split.
The study, which is the largest to-date on this topic, was not able to confirm the findings from earlier pilot and quality improvement studies.
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Physical Therapy Products
Younger adults may experience more antioxidant benefits from a single 30-minute workout than older adults, according to a recent study.
The study, conducted by Tinna Traustadóttir of Northern Arizona University and published in Free Radical Biology and Medicine, a journal of the Society for Redox Biology and Medicine, suggests that an individual's antioxidant response to exercise may become suppressed with age, according to a media release from Northern Arizona University.
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