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SCAPTA
The SCAPTA Research and Practice Committee looks forward to receiving poster presentation submissions for the 2018 SCAPTA Annual Conference, to be held April 13-14, 2018, at The Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC. Posters will be considered from all areas of practice such as orthopedics,pediatrics, and neurorehabilitation, and from anyphysical therapy related practice setting. PosterPresentations are reports in which information issummarized using brief written statements andgraphic materials, such as photographs, charts,graphs, and/or diagrams. The dimensions of theprinted poster should be 3ft x 4.5ft (HxW). Posters will be on display during Exhibit Hall hours. Speakers will be assigned a specific timewhen they must be at their posters to discuss them with conference attendees. The submission deadline is February 15, 2018. The Poster Application and application guidelines can be found at this link.
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Our PT Advocacy Day in Columbia is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018. Mark your calendars now and plan to attend this important event and opportunity to advocate for physical therapy in the statehouse.
SCAPTA
The 2018 Slate of Candidates for APTA national office is posted on the APTA website. All candidates slated by the Nominating Committee have met the qualifications for service as outlined within the Bylaws of the American Physical Therapy Association: only Physical Therapist (PT) members of the association can serve, and they are eligible if they have been PT members in good standing for at least 5 years immediately preceding their election and have consented to serve. The candidate web page, including candidate statements, will be available March 26, 2018. Elections for national office will be held at the 2018 House of Delegates on June 25, 2018.
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PT in Motion
By now, most physical therapists have heard the news: the final 2018 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule released in early November by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services included some significant variations from the PFS proposed in July. Instead of finalizing CPT code values that were the same as — and occasionally larger than — current values, CMS opted to offer up a more complicated combination of cuts and increases that could affect PTs in different ways, depending on their case-mix and billing patterns.
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SCAPTA
Put these discounts to work next time you need to shop and you can experience valuable savings in time for the holidays:
- Office and School Supply Discount: Members save up to 80 percent on office and school supplies when shopping at Office Depot and OfficeMax.
- Retail Discount: Members who use the APTA Online Mall, powered by Azigo, receive up to 20 percent cash back on online purchases from hundreds of popular retailers, including Target, Kohl's, Nordstrom, and Zappos.
- Shipping Discount: Members save up to 34 percent on shipping services via UPS.
SCAPTA
Have you seen the SCAPTA advertisement that has been running on a variety of Comcast cable news channels in the Charleston area? SCAPTA has contracted with Comcast Spotlight to air the advertisement on up to 150 channels in the Charleston area from October 1 through December 31. View the ad here.
SCAPTA
The SCAPTA Nominating Committee is seeking qualified candidates willing to run for office to fill the following vacancies in the 2018 SCAPTA election:
Vice President (2 year term)
3 directors (2 year term)
Delegate (2 year term), and
Nominating Committee member (3 year term).
If you are interested in serving or want to nominate a SCAPTA member, please contact a member of the Nominating Committee:
Kristen Vick, chair, kristen.1587@gmail.com
David Morrisette, morrisdc@musc.edu
Logan Andrews, Logan.leigh0614@gmail.com
SCAPTA
Check out these resources on APTA’s PTNow portal:
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| | HEALTH PROMOTION AND WELLNESS |
The Washington Post
Patricia Alexander knew she needed a mammogram but just couldn’t find the time.
"Every time I made an appointment, something would come up," said Alexander, who lives in Moreno Valley, California.
Over the summer, her doctor’s office, part of Vantage Medical Group, promised her a $25 Target gift card if she got the exam. Alexander, who’s insured through Medi-Cal, California’s version of the Medicaid program for lower-income people, said that helped motivate her to make a new appointment — and keep it.
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Newsweek
Saving the planet — specifically reducing your carbon footprint and curbing climate change — might be a little easier than expected. It could be as easy as eating a healthy diet.
Food production takes up an estimated 19 to 29 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions — a majority of which are from agriculture. Nearly a third of ice-free land is used for food production as well. Food production can increase eutrophication — which is an excess of fertilizers and animal waste that causes an overgrowth of algae and suffocates creatures living in bodies of water.
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By Sheilamary Koch
 What keeps athletes and weekend warriors in the game has a great deal to do with what happens before and after their "real" workout or competition. New research shows that longer, more intense warmups may be key to reducing injuries a whopping 40 percent for sports like soccer and basketball. On the other hand, some popular post-exercise recovery techniques don't hold up to scientific scrutiny.
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PT in Motion
At Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, on any given day you might see certified lymphedema therapist Peg Maas, PT, DPT, performing lymphatic massage on a patient. But it's not because the woman has cancer, although she is a cancer survivor. It's because she's pregnant.
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WTTV-TV
Arthritis of the knee is a common complaint for a lot of folks. One way to reduce the pain is something called joint mobilization.
"The two bones of the knee are not in touch with each other," says Nina, a physical therapist with American Senior Communities. "So I sort of open up the space gently. And then I move the bones. That way if there is a misalignment or any kind of restriction inside, it releases it and the patient will have a better range of motion."
Therapists at American Senior Communities use a number of pain management techniques in conjunction with physical therapy. One is called IFC or interferential current therapy. This modality uses an electrical current. It works deeply on nerve fibers by blocking pain signals.
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Bel Marra Health
Muscle atrophy or muscle wasting is a medical term defined as a decrease in muscle mass. There are generally two forms of muscle atrophy; disuse atrophy and neurogenic atrophy. Both present similarly but have significant differences in the cause of muscle wasting. The former is a loss of muscle due to lack of physical activity while the latter is due to a problem with the nerves that connect to the muscle itself.
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PT in Motion
In a study that underscores the need to rethink pain treatment in the U.S., researchers have found that more than 6 out of 10 individuals who died of an opioid-related cause had received a diagnosis for a chronic noncancer pain condition within the preceding year. The same group was also more likely to have been diagnosed with psychiatric disorders and prescribed psychotropic medications — including benzodiazepines, which can increase the risk of death when combined with opioids.
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WebPT
Despite the fact that earlier this year the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sent confusing letters to numerous rehab therapy clinics about their participation status in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, physical therapists, occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists are still not eligible to officially participate in this quality reporting initiative. According to the APTA, though, "it's almost a given that PTs will be mandatorily included as early as 2019."
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Radiological Society of North America via Physical Therapy Products
Obese people who lose a significant amount of weight could slow down the degeneration of their knee cartilage, but only if they lose weight through diet and exercise or diet alone, according to researchers.
“Once cartilage is lost in osteoarthritis, the disease cannot be reversed,” says Dr. Alexandra Gersing, from the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco. She is lead author of the study, which was presented recently during the Radiological Society of North America annual meeting.
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