This message was sent to ##Email## November 7, 2019 Home  |   About  |   Resources  |   Education  |   Career Center Subscribe  |   Archive  |   Advertise      SCAPTA NEWS Please plan to join us for our next Upstate District SCAPTA meeting PLEASE NOTE THE TIME IS EARLIER DUE TO A 2-HOUR CEU Date: Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019 Time: Dinner will be served at 6 p.m. and the meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. Location: Pelham Medical Center (Village @ Pelham) Community Room, Medical Office Building 2755 S Hwy 14, Greer Speaker: Dr. Matthew de Ruig PT, DPT, CMTPT Topic: Foundations of Dry Needling Sponsor: Superior Medical Equipment Phone: 1-800-538-4675 Email: info@smeincusa.com Dinner will be served. To help our sponsor prepare, please RSVP to Vivian Dunlop VDunlop@srhs.com or Jeremiah Blankenship ptjb.spine.hip.knee@gmail.com by Thursday, Nov. 7 at noon. Free for SCAPTA members and $10 for non-members. Students attend for free but must RSVP as students. Hope to see you there! Don't forget to support our state PT profession by going to http://scapta.org/donations and scroll down to "Donate to the Legislative Defense Fund" Vivian Dunlop, PT, MS, MHA Jeremiah Blankenship, PT, DPT, MS, OCS, CSCS, OMT-C Upstate District SCAPTA Co-Chairs    HEALTH PROMOTION AND WELLNESS Healthier for longer: How healthcare professionals can support older people British Geriatrics Society Prevention is, and should be, the cornerstone of geriatric medicine. So much of what geriatricians, nurses, GPs and allied health professionals working with older people do is aimed at achieving better health outcomes for their patients, allowing them to stay well, remain independent, stay out of hospital and return home as quickly as possible when they are admitted to hospital.  READ MORE Change in cardiometabolic risk factors associated with magnitude of weight regain 3 years after a 1‐year intensive lifestyle intervention in type 2 diabetes mellitus: The look AHEAD trial AHA/ASA Journals Weight regain after weight loss is common. The impact on cardiometabolic risk factors is not well established. Publicly available data were analyzed from participants of the Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) trial with ≥3% initial weight loss (n=1561) during a 1‐year intensive lifestyle intervention and with year 4 follow‐up data.  READ MORE    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      INDUSTRY NEWS Physical therapy provides safe alternative to meds Excelsior Spring Standard APTA is working to raise awareness of physical therapy as a safe & effective alternative to medication use, such as opioids, for treatment of chronic pain conditions. Physical therapy is a means to conservatively treat a multitude of conditions including acute or chronic pain, neurological conditions, traumatic injuries, difficulty with walking or falls, recovery after surgery, and more. Physical therapists get to spend more one-on-one time with patients than almost any other medical professional.  READ MORE Final home health rule cements PDGM, allows PTAs to perform maintenance therapy PT in Motion When it comes to its most talked-about provisions, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) final rule for home health payment under Medicare isn't much of a change from the proposed version released earlier this year, meaning that an entirely new payment system will indeed be rolled out beginning January 1. But other parts of the rule have been tweaked—and in several areas, those tweaks represent wins for the physical therapy profession and the patients it serves in home health settings.  READ MORE Can digitization of health care help low-resourced countries provide better community-based rehabilitation services? Physical Therapy In the wake of globalization, proliferation of digital technologies (DTs) is rapidly changing many activities across sectors, including health to “go digital”. Harnessing opportunities of DTs can be a pathway for delivery of health services such as community-based rehabilitation to the vulnerable groups of populations, particularly those in the low resourced countries where the health systems are still weak and experiencing a deficit of trained health workers to effectively deliver a full spectrum of health services.  READ MORE Amputation surgery and physical therapy help teen get back to active lifestyle University of Michigan After a moped accident left one teenager with severe leg injuries, amputation surgery and physical therapy with her prosthetic leg are now helping her accomplish her goals, including walking again in high heels.  READ MORE UnitedHealthcare to expand program waiving copays, deductibles for physical therapy for LBP PT in Motion Momentum around better insurer coverage of physical therapy continues to build at UnitedHealthcare (UHC), which announced that it's moving ahead to expand a pilot project that waives copays and deductibles for 3 physical therapy sessions for patients with new-onset low back pain (LBP). The pilot follows a multiyear collaboration between APTA, OptumLabs®, and UHC.  READ MORE Hospital's physical therapy service offering treatment with hydrotherapy treadmill The Vicksburg Post Acute joint stiffness and mobility issues can often hinder those needing physical therapy, making such treatment difficult. In an effort to help patients who deal with mobility issues and joint stiffness, Merit Health River Region has added a hydrotherapy treadmill.  READ MORE Craig Lindell: Can we fix physical therapy? BarBend Everything in life should be instant gratification, when the one thing in life that we cannot change is exercise and results and its delayed gratification. Rehab, getting out of pain and getting performance improvements, it’s hard work.  READ MORE Keeping the endgame in mind during physical therapy Friedreich's Ataxia News If I didn’t know that the endgame for physical therapy is to be fully functional again, it’d be easy to come up with excuses to just stay in bed right now. Physical therapy isn’t fun or easy, but it is a necessary friction. Thankfully, I am on the mend from a fall that fractured my hip two weeks ago. I have been observing and experiencing firsthand how important time and the right stretching and exercising are on the road to healing.  READ MORE Marketing Benchmarking PPS Impact Market research finds health care businesses budgeting 9 percent of their revenue toward marketing.1 Although companies are not consistent with what is included in this budget, this figure does stress the fact that health care businesses spend a significant amount of resources on marketing. The biggest question when it comes to spending resources on marketing is “What is the return on investment (ROI)?” The simplest calculation of ROI is to take revenue growth, subtract marketing costs, then divide by marketing cost.  READ MORE Podcast: Building a cash-based sports rehab practice and membership website By Jarod Carter During PT school, Greg Schaible found a fantastic sports rehab website and set up a clinical rotation with its founder, Joe Heiler. That experience was life-changing for him. After graduation, he found work as a physical therapist and later decided to start his own cash-based practice part-time. When presented with the opportunity to take over the sports rehab website he knew and loved, he enthusiastically jumped in, because it provided a welcome source of stable revenue as his practice gradually found its market. Ever since, Schaible has been building two businesses.  READ MORE Pelvic floor therapy following surgery: Better outcomes or falling flat? Evidence in Motion Over the last month or so, I have gotten a few inquiries as to my thoughts on this article which reports that a recent study showed no added benefit for patients who performed pelvic floor therapy following a periurethral sling surgery for mixed incontinence. This person knows that I am a huge advocate for pre and postoperative rehabilitation for patients who undergo abdominal and pelvic procedures.  READ MORE Licensure Renewal Questions? SCAPTA If you have seen the recent release from the South Carolina LLR, PT Board, I am sure you may wonder what that means for you. First, the PT Licensure Compact is not active, YET. We need to fix one piece of language in the statute that will then allow the proper authorities the ability to communicate properly while maintaining state record confidentiality.  READ MORE Physical therapist says Kevin Hart is 'back to normal function' but not '100 percent' post-car crash inTouch On the road to recovery. Kevin Hart is taking his time to heal from injuries sustained in his car accident back in September. He has made some great progress, according to a physical therapist.  READ MORE SCAPTA News Connect with SCAPTA Recent Issues | Subscribe |  Unsubscribe | Advertise | Web Version  Colby Horton, Vice President of Publishing, 469-420-2601 | Download media kit Mashaal Ryan, Content Editor, 469-420-2633 | Contribute news South Carolina Physical Therapy Associaton 1111 North Fairfax Street | Alexandria, VA 22314 | 800-765-7848 ext. 7122 | Contact Us  Learn how to add us to your safe sender list so our emails get to your inbox. 7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063