This message was sent to ##Email## July 16, 2020 Home  |   About  |   Resources  |   Education  |   Career Center Subscribe  |   Archive  |   Advertise    SCAPTA NEWS CEU's coming soon! If you are looking for continuing education credits, APTA South Carolina is here for you! Watch the Newsletter and website for dates and times for virtual CEU opportunities. Here’s a sneak peek: READ MORE Call for Volunteers! In 2021, we will celebrate 100 years as a member association – and launch our next century as the largest community for physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, and students. On this landmark occasion, we want to embrace our rich history and generate momentum toward our exciting future. We want you to engage, celebrate, and serve, as we raise awareness about our great profession and enshrine a proud legacy for future generations. Please consider joining the APTA-South Carolina Centennial Celebration taskforce. This taskforce will be responsible for the planning of Centennial Celebrations right here in South Carolina. Please email info@scapta.org to join this exciting taskforce! APTA South Carolina - Call for Membership and Awards and Committee Members Visit APTA Engage here to sign up!    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   Renew today and be a part of the profession in physical therapy! Highlights of membership: Advocacy – APTA and APTA-SC are the only organizations fighting for Physical Therapists and Physical Therapist Assistants! Education – APTA-SC holds numerous CEU opportunities, including the APTA-SC Annual Conference, District Meetings (free CEUs for members), and more! Practice – APTA-SC is working to pursue optimization of value and evidence based clinical care with reduced variance across the continuum. Access to evidence based literature, gain experience outside of your job responsibilities, enrich yourself personally, networking, affect change and more! To renew easily and quickly you can click here!      HEALTH PROMOTION AND WELLNESS Clinical significance of nutritional risk screening for older adult patients with COVID-19 European Journal of Clinical Nutrition At present, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has developed into a worldwide outbreak. The case detection rate is changing every day, and it can be tracked nearly in real time on the website provided by Johns Hopkins University. According to official data, as of March 28, 2020, the number of confirmed cases worldwide has reached 598,130, with 27,033 deaths, and a mortality rate of 4.5% or higher in areas with a concentrated outbreak.  READ MORE Association between plant and animal protein intake and overall and cause-specific mortality JAMA Network Great emphasis has been placed on the human health effects of a high-quality protein diet owing to its proposed benefits regarding weight management, metabolism, and healthy aging. Previous studies, including meta-analyses of short-term clinical trials, have shown that high-protein diets lead to weight loss and fat mass loss, possibly from the negative energy balance that results from sustained satiety and energy expenditure.  READ MORE    INDUSTRY NEWS A movement for movement: APTA campaign promotes physical activity and role of PTs and PTAs APTA Too many Americans don’t move enough, but PTs and PTAs are perfectly positioned to address our country’s inactivity. That’s the message we’re sharing in our latest public awareness campaign, which is positioned to make a big impact during APTA's centennial year in 2021.  READ MORE After COVID-19, patient's long road to recovery includes physical therapy El Paso Herald-Post Fighting and overcoming Covid 19 is difficult for many. Even after winning the fight, so many still deal with lingering health complications. Dr. Parul Haribhai, founder and Doctor of Physical Therapy, says the clinic is seeing and educating the providers on two things from post-corona patients. Coronavirus patients, after no longer being contagious or exhibiting symptoms, are very weak. Additionally, these patients are now suffering from PICS, or post intensive care syndrome.  READ MORE 5-year-old helps get climbing wall for physical therapy center WAND-TV Children with developmental delays are now able to benefit from a new climbing wall at a physical therapy center in Decatur, largely due to the persistence of a gregarious 5-year-old. "He loves it," said Lucky's mother, Paula McMahon. "He doesn't know it is a workout. He just knows it's fun." Lucky needs the climbing wall for his weekly therapy sessions. He was born with hydrocephalus - which Paula McMahon describes as "water on the brain" - and climbing can help build his strength and mobility.  READ MORE Why patients are falling for physical therapy Covalent Careers Geriatric falls are also the number one reason why our patients lose their independence as they age, which leads to them leaving their homes to live in facilities such as skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities.  READ MORE Respected research: PTJ's influence continues to rise APTA PTJ (Physical Therapy), APTA's scientific journal, has always been one of the most influential publications in the rehabilitation and orthopedic research fields, and now its influence is stronger than ever. According to Journal Citation Reports, the frequency with which the average PTJ article is cited by other articles in a particular year — its "impact factor" — made significant gains in 2019.  READ MORE The development of a crosswalk for functional measures in postacute medicare claims Physical Therapy Journal Although Medicare assessment files will include Standardized Patient Assessment Data Elements (SPADE) from 2016 forward, lack of uniformity of functional data prior to 2016 impedes longitudinal research. The purpose of this study was to create crosswalks for postacute care assessment measures and the basic mobility and daily activities scales of the Activity Measure for Post-Acute Care (AM-PAC) and to test their accuracy and validity in development and validation datasets.  READ MORE 4 undeniable reasons to make telehealth a permanent fixture in PT WebPT Three months ago, if you had asked me, “What is the application for telehealth in physical therapy?” I would have answered, “Very limited.” Up until then, I believed that for patients with no other options—like those in the remotest parts of the country—telehealth might be useful. But otherwise, not so much. Physical therapy is by definition physical. For it to be effective, the provider must be physically with the patient. Or so I thought. Then, COVID-19 happened.  READ MORE Predictors of research productivity among physical therapy programs in the US BMC Medical Education This study targeted the association of program characteristics of 203 Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) programs in the United States (US) reported by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE) in their 2017 Annual Accreditation Report (AAR) with measures of core faculty research volume. The association of institutional, program, and faculty characteristics of an institution with core faculty research volume was investigated.  READ MORE Fear into power: My COVID-19 experience APTA When I was 17 my mother took me to a Tony Robbins workshop. It was called "Fear Into Power, The Firewalk Experience." That's right, me and a group of about 5,000 people over the course of eight hours would learn to change our beliefs and walk across a bed of hot coals without being burned. This was a life-changing experience for me, a strong metaphor on the influence of the mind in moving through fear and transforming it into power. When the country shut down mid-March for COVID-19, I was scared. I was scared for my family, my business, and my community.  READ MORE PT after crisis: Recovering, reopening, and refocusing on the future WebPT The COVID-19 pandemic hit the PT industry like a wrecking ball—and now clinics across the nation are beginning to pick up the pieces and learn how to treat patients in this new, virus-laden world. To help PTs navigate this new healthcare landscape, Heidi Jannenga, PT, DPT, ATC, WebPT Co-Founder and Chief Clinical Officer, and Nancy Ham, WebPT CEO hosted an hour-long webinar discussing the impact of the pandemic and strategies for reopening.  READ MORE Podcast: The riches are in the niches – cash-based physical therapy in the golf niche By Jarod Carter After Eric Wallace graduated from PT school, he worked for several years as a staff physical therapist at a hospital-based outpatient clinic. Soon after, he decided to go it alone and start his own fully cash-based physical therapy practice. He rented space in a gym to start, but his lack of a real business plan made things difficult. Eventually, he moved into his own space and went 100% cash-based with a focus on improving performance for golfers. In this interview, Wallace shares what he’s learned along the way.  READ MORE Pandemic-inspired guide to physical therapy at home helpful any time University of Manitoba via Medical Xpress A small team of faculty and students from the department of physical therapy in the College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, has created a guide to help people find online resources to assist with their physical therapy needs at home.  READ MORE Interoperability and information blocking APTA Patient and other entities' access to electronic health records, or EHIs, has become a major concern of several federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Rules on information blocking and interoperability have a significant impact on how PTs should use EHI with patients and other care providers.  READ MORE Consistency in patient scheduling PPS Impact Many of the challenges we face each day lie in uncertainty. We depend on planning and consistency to be the backbone of success. There are many instances where plotting and creating best practices will keep the train on track, steadily chugging away. It is the outside elements beyond our control that make for more difficult problem solving.  READ MORE .  SUGGESTED COMPANIES Improve Your Athlete Care © Learn the latest injury prevention strategies and rehabilitation guidelines to treat athletes of all ages! Read more     Promoted by American College Of Sports Medicine Johnson & Johnson @JNJCares . Every day, millions of people around the world enjoy the benefits of products from Johnson & Johnson. Read more . Featured Healthcare Products . Promoted by Johnson & Johnson GE Healthcare @GEHealthcare . We provide medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Read more . Healthcare Collaboration . 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