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SCAPTA
Members of the SCAPTA Executive Committee met in Greenville on Oct. 13 to discuss the draft 2018 budget and other items.
On Oct. 14, members of the Executive Committee, committee and district chairs and a few other honored guests worked with our facilitator, Dianne Jewell, to review and revise the current SCAPTA strategic plan. Results and comments from the strategic planning survey that was sent to members and nonmembers were considered during these discussions. The three goal pillars over the next 3-5 years will focus on Advocacy, Education and Practice areas.
SCAPTA
SCAPTA is delighted to be in partnership with the Institute of Advanced Musculoskeletal Treatments (IAMT) to offer a 2-day Trigger Point Dry Needling Course for physical therapists on November 4-5, 2017 at the MUSC in Charleston. The full 2-day course offers 20 contact hours. SCAPTA members are eligible to receive a discount on the registration fee. Please contact jessica.hopkins@iamt.org for the registration discount code. Space is limited. For more information and to register, visit this web page.
SCAPTA
Please plan to join us for our next Upstate District SCAPTA meeting.
Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Time: Dinner will be served at 6:45 pm and the meeting will begin at 7:00 pm.
Location: Pelham Medical Center, Medical Office Building,
Community Room, 2755 S. Hwy 14, Greer
Topic: Helping your patient find the proper footwear using 3D scanning
Speakers: Sheila McCullough-Burgess
Sponsor: Fleet Feet
Dinner will be served. To help our sponsor prepare, please RSVP to holly@ssi-physicaltherapy.com or Trudy_messer@bshsi.org by Thursday, November 9th at 5pm.
SCAPTA members will receive a free CEU. We encourage non-members to attend, however, there will be a $10 charge.
Hope to see you there!
Holly Mader, PT, OCS
Upstate District SCAPTA Co-Chair
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SCAPTA
SCAPTA Facility of the Year award nominations have been narrowed down to five clinics. Thank you to all of the facilities that took the time to submit an application. It shows your enthusiasm and adoration for your clinic! Throughout October is National Physical Therapy Month, SCAPTA will highlight the top choices through this newsletter and on social media.
Today's highlight is Made 2 Move Physical Therapy in Charleston. This is a unique physical therapy clinic that is based out of a CrossFit gym. We give Yves Gege, owner and physical therapist, a special shout out for helping with the SCAPTA commercial that launched this year!
SCAPTA
Mark your calendars for Wednesday, Feb. 7, for our PT Day in Columbia. Details will follow.
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NPR
The National Sleep Foundation recommends an average of eight hours of sleep per night for adults, but sleep scientist Matthew Walker says that too many people are falling short of the mark.
"Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain," Walker says. "Many people walk through their lives in an underslept state, not realizing it."
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APTA Learning Center
This webinar is scheduled for 8-9 p.m. (EST), Nov. 6.
This session will start the learner through the paradigm shift that begins to occur in critical thinking when rehabilitation for individuals is replaced with thinking about the health of their communities and populations. The course will provide an overview of population health frameworks and their applications in the profession of physical therapy using an interconnected ecological model to demonstrate a more global view of health determinants and how physical therapists might influence them. The focus of this initial webinar will be on actions physical therapists can take at the individual level, preparing the professional's thinking to ultimately focus on actions taken at the family, community and societal levels to be covered in future offerings.
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Harvard Health Publishing
Want to maintain your muscle strength as you age? A study in a recent issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that eating protein at breakfast, lunch and dinner may help.
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Bel Marra Health
Staying fit through exercise and eating a balanced diet is and has always been the best method for staying healthy. However, a new study suggests this may not be entirely true. Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Kaiser Permanente have found that white men who exercise at high levels are 86 percent more likely to experience plaque buildup in the heart compared to those who exercise at low levels.
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Medical News Today
Be it financial worries, work pressures or relationship problems, we all get stressed from time to time. To what extent does stress harm us, though? According to a new study, stress may be just as detrimental to our health as junk food — for women, at least.
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News Medical
A new study by sleep experts at Loughborough University is examining how sleep and weight management are related.
In a first-of-its-kind, the experimental research will look at the link between sleep duration and appetite — and whether one extra hour could lead to better weight management.
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Physical Therapy Products
A study using groups of sedentary and resistance-trained rats provides evidence suggesting that resistance training may help prevent age-related tendon problems, such as ruptures and tendinopathies. "To restrain and revert the deleterious aging process, resistance training can be used as an important tool to prevent degeneration and even restore tendon functions," says Rita de Cassia Marqueti Durigan, Ph.D.
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WebPT
Per diem — or PRN — physical therapy varies from facility to facility, but generally speaking, per diem PTs serve as on-call physical therapists. Facilities use them for extra coverage on days when full-time staff members are sick, vacationing, or otherwise unavailable. In some cases, per diem physical therapists end up working almost as much as full-time PTs, while in other cases, they only work a few days a month.
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Venture Beats
Within the last decade, we’ve seen incredible progress in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. Innovators have been seeking out ways to meld man and machine and, in some areas, remove humans altogether. In robotics, we’re seeing delivery drones, security robots, and more. In AI, chatbots, self-driving cars, and voice recognition have all made significant strides.
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PT in Motion
Though the storms themselves have passed, people affected by Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, and Hurricane Maria will struggle with the devastation for the foreseeable future. Physical therapists (PTs), physical therapist assistants (PTAs), and other rehabilitation professionals now have an opportunity to come together as a unified community to help those in need.
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WebPT
In its current form, the therapy cap can throw a lot of roadblocks into the patient care path, preventing therapists from doing what they do best: helping patients improve function and mobility. But the tangled web of rules, regulations, and myths incites much confusion within the rehab therapy community. For one thing, many providers mistakenly assume that Medicare will not pay for services beyond the initial $1,980 limit, with or without the KX modifier.
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PT in Motion
Did you participate in the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) in 2016? You can check on your 2016 reporting results and find out if you're subject to any payment adjustments for 2018. But take note: if you've received a payment reduction notice and think the decision was made in error, you need to submit a request for review by Dec. 1.
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Bel Marra Health
Carpopedal spasms are extremely painful cramps or contractions that mostly occur in the hand and feet muscles. They can be caused by infections such as tetanus or simply be due to low calcium levels in the blood. An accurate carpopedal spasm definition would be an involuntary sudden vibration and muscular contraction of both or either of the hands and feet. However, it is commonly used as a medical term for a sudden involuntary muscle contraction.
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