PT SOLUTIONS BLOG

Understanding the influence of placebo and nocebo in clinical practice   Ok, so this one is a little longer than previous posts. If you need a minute to freshen your coffee or grab a snack, I completely understand. This topic...

Patient expectations change and clinicians need to keep up “Taking uncertainty into account can enhance a physicians therapeutic effectiveness because it demonstrates his honesty, his willingness to be more engaged with his patients, his commitment to the reality of th...

Read Time: 5-7 minutes   “I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Jung Chronic pain is more prevalent than ever, yet our understanding of it is still poor.[1] This post...

   9 minute read   “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” – Henry David Thoreau   Have you ever changed...

Read Time: 3-4 minutes  “Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.” – Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman   The amount of information...

   8 minute read   “I know I am ready to give feedback when I’m ready to listen, ask questions, and accept that I may not fully understand the issue” – Brené Brown   You will be hard pressed to...

Read Time: 8 minutes “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” -Will Durant   Think back to the material you covered in PT School. Let’s go specifically to a class we all...

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) is America’s largest military shipbuilding company and a provider of professional services to partners in government and industry. They’re also the largest employer in the state of Mississippi. For 81 years, the 900-acre shipyard located in Pascagoula, Mississippi,...

Read Time: 10-12 min Believe whatever you believe by day, but at night, argue against the propositions you hold most dear” – How not to be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg   Last week we covered...