Who would have thought having hundreds of PT tools in the palm of your hand would be possible? As technology advances, we as rehab professionals should do our best to stay in front of the tech curve. Today, more than ever, we are a culture of Therapy on the Go€ and always in need of ….
Many hospitals have mandated that all healthcare workers receive their Influenza vaccines. As a rehab professional, it is your duty to do no harm. By avoiding the vaccine, you risk infecting your patients as they come to you for treatment. As a result, many healthcare organizations have posed either getting your vaccine or wearing a ….
Stroke is the leading cause of long term disability in the United States. Each year, about 795,000 people suffer a stroke. About 600,000 of these are first attacks, and 185,000 are recurrent attacks. Physical Therapists and Occupational Therapists alike, will handle the treatment of stroke victims throughout their careers. Because some strokes occur in ….
It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to write what is arguably, the most important document of your professional life. Your resume is not only your meal ticket, but the determinant for a better position, career, company, etc. As a Rehab Professional, it is probable that the extent of your resume writing education was comprised of ….
Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) are a series of measurements that determine the functional status of a patient. As a skilled therapist, you should be able to develop or master a way of understanding if a patient may or may not be improving from an injury or Neurological event. Depending on your discipline and/or setting, ….
As with everything else, Medicare controls how each healthcare provider gets aid for a procedure or treatment. In the case of rehab departments, as well as any healthcare providers, you must be accredited in order to receive Medicare reimbursements. Because all healthcare organizations are subject to a three-year accreditation cycle, they often find themselves at ….
Autism is prevalent today and there have been arguments made by camps, such as Jenny McCarthy’s, in which a correlation from Autism to early childhood vaccinations has allegedly been drawn. However, oppositions are calling this and many more related assertions fraudulent, in that there aren’t enough statistically significant studies that can validate these theories. An ….
Our economy has not been fair to a majority of the US and as it continues its vicious downward spiral, undergrad students are scared to approach the real world without additional education for fear of not landing a job. Students, en mass, are turning to rehab schools as rehab facilities are downsizing. With supply high ….
The term progressive mobility is defined as a series of planned movements in a sequential manner beginning at a patient’s current mobility status with a goal of returning to his/her baseline. Early mobilization of the critically ill may have just opened up a niche for the rehab profession’s sleeper, the Occupational Therapist. Because a Physical ….
We all remember what it was like coming out of school and how difficult is was to find our first opportunity as a rehab professional. Just like any internship, your last year of school helped you not only receive hands-on interaction with patients, but also created a networking opportunity to potentially set up your first job. ….
Let’s face it, technology isn’t going away. In fact, it is growing at exponential rates that are tough to comprehend. The human race has grown substantially as a result of health related technologies and we are living longer than ever before because of the growth in medicine and all associated advancements in medical technology. As ….
The typical role of the Acute Care Therapist has changed to the point where physical therapy is no longer about evaluation and treatment, but more about assessing for discharge placement. In most settings, the PT has approximately an hour to review the chart, evaluate the patient, and then lan for discharge. Here is a breakdown of ….
We have all heard the cliche perception is reality, which is more prevalent now than ever before. Following the recent mandate by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regarding the HCAHPS survey score and its direct relation to hospital revenue, you, as a rehab professional, have more power to influence the patient and his/ her ….
In your practice as a physical, occupational or speech therapist, you have certain procedures, certain ways of doing things. There may be good reasons for why things are done the way they are, or it could just be that they have always been done that way, and no one really thought to question the procedures. ….
Stress is something we all have to deal with at work and outside it, and that is especially true of the healthcare professions, where the lives or the quality of life of the patients you care for often are at stake. As a physical, occupational or speech therapist you are no doubt well aware that ….
As a rehab therapist, you will have to make countless decisions, choices about the care you will be providing to your patients, and choices about how to run your practice. Like most people, you will try to make your decisions rationally, by gathering information, talking to colleagues and sorting out the options open to you. ….
As a working physical, occupational, or speech therapist, you have set many goals in your life and achieved them. But now that you are working, and your job and home life are taking up much of your time, maybe you have been having trouble with goal setting. The routine tasks have taken over and sort ….
No one would argue with the fact that people are going to have different opinions at work and that these opinions will sometimes come into conflict. That’s not always a bad thing. Without such differences, innovation and improvement are not likely to occur. As a physical, occupational or speech therapist, you will be working with ….
If you’re a newly-minted PT just out of school, or even a more seasoned veteran, and you’re looking for a job, you might be a little unsure about what to look for and what you should ask about in an interview. To help you out, the American Physical Therapy Association has come up with a ….
As a physical, occupational or speech therapist, you know more than most about how to tell when you’re pushing your body just enough — or too much. But are you as good at determining when your mental well being is being compromised? Our society pushes all of us today like never before. We’re asked to ….