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SCAPTA
SCAPTA is seeking your feedback on a survey found at this link. Survey questions will ask you to Identify the most important issues facing the profession and where SCAPTA should focus its efforts in the next 3-5 years. SCAPTA leaders will use the results of the survey to help guide its review and revision of the chapter strategic plan in October. Your time and input is very valuable to us! As an incentive for you to take a few minutes to complete the online survey, two lucky members will be randomly selected to receive $100 to be used toward SCAPA membership, annual conference registration discount or a Visa gift card.
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Aarhus University via ScienceDaily
In the past, multiple sclerosis patients were advised not to exercise for fear of exacerbating the illness. However, it is now known that physical training can relieve many of the symptoms, including the excessive fatigue and mobility impairments that are often seen. New research now shows that resistance training may protect the nervous system and thus slow the progression of the disease.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Employers may incur costs related to absenteeism among employees who have chronic diseases or unhealthy behaviors. We examined the association between employee absenteeism and 5 conditions: 3 risk factors and 2 chronic diseases. Absenteeism costs associated with chronic diseases and health risk factors can be substantial. Employers may incur these costs through lower productivity, and employees could incur costs through lower wages.
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By Sheilamary Koch
 The shoulder is the body's most mobile joint area. It allows humans to do amazing things like move their arms gracefully in complex patterns, pull their bodies up a steep rock face or power a ball at blazing speeds. It also lets people do ordinary things like shrug, take food out of the freezer and make a bed. What makes the shoulder so wonderful also makes it more prone to injury than any other joint in the body. Due to its mobile nature, it's also quite unstable.
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Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal
Epidemiological data support an increasing prevalence of lifestyle-related conditions globally. As established healthcare professionals, physical therapists are well positioned to be clinically competent in patient education to effect long-term lifestyle behaviour change, to improve health and physical therapy outcomes. A scoping systematic review was conducted to identify educational strategies used by physical therapists and their attributes to prevent, reverse and manage lifestyle-related conditions. Stringent search strategies of related databases and research mining identified eight source studies.
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PT in Motion
The old "you snooze, you lose" adage couldn't be further from the truth.
Researchers are gaining more and more insight on the role of sleep in overall health, and physical therapists should be equipped to help their patients and clients understand that role, according to authors of an article that provides guidance on basic screening tools and sleep hygiene education. In fact, authors argue, it's an especially important consideration for PTs, who often work with patient populations whose conditions are associated with sleep disruption.
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Clinicient
You can approach documentation as a necessary administrative burden. But, the better approach is to think of it as one of the best, but often overlooked, tools to help grow your business.
Here are just a few ways how telling a story through your documentation can help drive your business growth.
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USA Today
“It touched me! It touched me!” Liz Pentecost exclaimed as a whale shark bumped against her body.
She was snorkeling in a large tank filled with whale sharks and other fish at the Georgia Aquarium.
For children like Liz, swimming in the tank with whale sharks was more than a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It was physical therapy in the water.
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University of Massachusetts via Physical Therapy Products
Obese patients may not need to lose weight prior to joint replacement surgery after all, suggests a recent study, adding that normal-weight and obese patients experienced virtually the same pain relief and improved function six months postsurgery.
“Our data shows it’s not necessary to ask patients to lose weight prior to surgery,” says Wenjun Li, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine and lead author on of the study, published recently in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.
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Healio
The study purpose was to examine changes in physical therapy and nursing student attitudes toward interprofessional learning and interprofessional collaboration following a high-fidelity code simulation. The interprofessional learning experience using high-fidelity simulation fostered the development of attitudes necessary for effective interprofessional learning and interprofessional collaboration.
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WebPT
Let’s face it: little problems, when left ignored, can quickly turn into really, really big problems. Anyone who’s dealt with a leaky set of pipes can attest to that. These little leaks start off innocuous enough — an occasional drip is nothing a well-placed bucket can’t solve. However, if you fail to address the underlying issue, you could find yourself in a lot of hot water — literally.
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Daily Press
A commonly seen condition which affects the wrist and hand is carpal tunnel syndrome. The carpal tunnel is a small channel in the wrist which protects the median nerve and the tendons that allow you to flex and bend your fingers. When the median nerve is compressed or squeezed at the wrist, irritation of the carpal tunnel occurs. The median nerve runs from the palm of the hand into the forearm and when compressed, symptoms may appear.
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