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SCAPTA
On Nov. 12, and MUSC in Charleston, the MUSC Class of 2018 and SCAPTA will be presenting a course in pain science hosted by Thomas R. Denninger, DPT, PCS, FAAOMPT. Registration is open now.
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SCAPTA
Please make plans to join us for the Introduction to Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization Techniques CEU. The event will be held on Nov. 17 at the University of South Carolina - Blatt Center in Columbia, South Carolina.
Donations from SCAPTA Members and students appreciated and there is a registration fee of $20 for non-members.
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| Please plan to join us for our next Upstate District SCAPTA meeting
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Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Time: Dinner will be served at 6:45 pm and the meeting will begin at 7:00 pm.
Location: Pelham Medical Center (Village @ Pelham)
Community Room, Medical Office Building
2755 S Hwy 14, Greer
Topic: New Evaluation Codes: What you need to know before 1/1/2017
Speaker: Robbie Leonard, PT, MS
Sponsor: Upstate Prosthetics
Dinner will be served. To help our sponsor prepare, please RSVP to holly@ssi-physicaltherapy.com or Trudy_messer@bshsi.org by Friday, November 11th at 5pm.
SCAPTA members will receive a free CEU. We encourage non-members to attend, however, there will be a $10 charge to receive the CEU certificate.
Hope to see you there!
PT in Motion
A new report on outcome measure recommendations for treatment of people with spinal cord injury finds that, yes, there are strong tests and measures for this population, but physical therapists still need to rely on their clinical judgment when the measures are weak on evidence.
Appearing in the November 2016 issue of Physical Therapy, APTA’s scientific journal, the report comes from the Spinal Cord Injury EDGE (Evaluation Database to Guide Effectiveness) Task Force led by the APTA Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy. In addition to the recommendations, the task force’s efforts illuminated areas of strength and weakness in outcomes tools for specific areas.
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| Thank you to featured facilities
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SCAPTA
Thank you to all of the SC facilities that submitted information for PT Month highlights in our newsletter:
- Palmetto Health Richland Rehab Services
- Dorn VA Physical Therapy Department
- Sports, Spine and Industrial Physical Therapy
- Dosher Physical Therapy
- NHC Lexington
| SCAPTA Member Highlight - Nathan Mansell PT, DPT, ATC
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Nathan works as an athletic trainer/physical therapist for the United States national soccer teams, a job which has taken him to northern Serbia, the Czech Republic, and south Florida over the last year. He has covered the U18 and U20 men's national teams in various tournaments and camps, where we have played France, Russia, Hungary, Israel, Czech Republic, Serbia, and Slovakia. His roles and responsibilities with US Soccer includes some overlap with his job working in an outpatient orthopedic clinic, but the intensity of the day to day operations, as well as the diversity in what he is asked to do, deviates from the outpatient world greatly. Whether it's taping, emergency triage, or game-time decisions his goals with the patient all almost exclusively short term.
He notes that "it's important that my players are given solid, evidence-based education on their injuries that dispel many of the modern day myths that have been perpetuated throughout the sports medicine world. These players are all American, but live all over the world, and, much like my normal caseload of patients, come in with lots of different preferences and biases that make the "best treatment" for each patient unique."
Hats off to you Nathan for your outstanding service to our patients both in here and abroad! Keep the good work, and we will be watching you closely as your career progresses.
SCAPTA
APTA members are being alerted to look out for an important AMA survey being sent from APTA that will help to shape values for certain existing physical therapy CPT codes. A random sample of members was selected to participate – even if you didn't receive a survey, check with your colleagues. Check your inboxes, and we urge everyone contacted to fill out the survey. Yes, it's that big of a deal.
Bangor Daily News
A concussion is a mild traumatic brain injury, most often caused by a blow to the head. Concussions are usually not life-threatening. Even so, the effects can be serious.
Here's what can happen when your head takes a hit. Your brain slams against the inside of your skull and then ricochets and slams against the opposite side. The movement can cause chemical changes and damage brain cells. Some people lose consciousness but most don’t. And most people also recover quickly and completely.
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WebPT
With Medicare routinely changing and tightening its rules on reimbursement, PTs may be worried about receiving payment in a timely, efficient manner. So, why not issue ABNs to all Medicare patients prior to treating them? If only if it were that easy. While that would undoubtedly bring a smile to many PTs’ faces, the truth is that ABNs are only appropriate if the services you are providing are either noncovered or non-medically necessary.
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PT in Motion
As expected, the final 2017 physician fee schedule rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services doesn't vary much from what was proposed earlier this year – including the new three-tiered current procedural terminology code system for physical therapy evaluations, all with the same payment rate. However, some new developments add a few positive elements to the picture.
The rule covers Medicare Part B services that apply to physical therapists, physicians and other providers.
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Physical Therapy Products
Swiss physicians write in The Lancet that cartilage cells harvested from the noses of 10 adults successfully produced cartilage transplants that were used to help repair their knee joints.
Two years after undergoing reconstructive surgery, most of the patients (ages 18 to 55 years) reported improvements in pain, knee function and quality of life. They also were able to develop repair tissue that was similar to their native cartilage.
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BuildPT
A good carpenter will always tote around a truckload of tools, ready and prepared to tackle most any job. And yet when the carpenter steps from the truck and onto a job site, the one tool we all envision dangling from his or her tool belt is universal: a simple, solid, well-used hammer. When it comes to improving the SEO of your physical therapy website, you, like the carpenter, have a whole truckload of tools at your disposal. But the one tool that offers the greatest, most universal potential – your SEO hammer, so to speak – is your PT clinic blog.
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Medical News Today
As more trauma patients survive their initial hospital stays, new study results show that acute inpatient rehabilitation facilities are the best places for some of these patients to go once they leave the hospital. Yet, the percentage of trauma patients sent to these facilities is in decline, according to a new study published online on the Journal of the American College of Surgeons in advance of print.
Little research exists on survival of trauma patients a year after they leave the hospital. However, study researchers at the University of Washington, Seattle, report that trauma patients who have intensive physical, occupational, and cognitive therapy at an acute care inpatient rehabilitation facility are more likely to eventually go home and survive a year after discharge than a matched group of trauma patients who were not discharged to an IRF.
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Physical Therapy Products
Clogged milk ducts occur in breastfeeding women when their babies do not nurse enough or when the women do not sufficiently pump their breasts. According to WebMD, this condition affects an estimated 200,000 women annually.
Symptoms from the condition, which could include pain, fever, tender nipples and infection, could be treated with physical therapy, according to physical therapist Marianne Ryan in a media release.
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