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What We’re Taught About Pain is Wrong: 6 Common Pain Myths

August 14, 2020

Pain stinks and unfortunately, the myths about pain can make the experience even worse. The fascinating, dangerous, slightly infuriating, yet empowering aspect of pain is that we have some control over it. Specifically, our mindset, thoughts, understanding of, and approach...

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Is a Placebo Effect Good or Bad?

August 11, 2020

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...

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What Influences Patient Satisfaction More – Actions or Words?

August 4, 2020

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...

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What is Pain and Why Do We Feel It?

July 30, 2020

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...

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Treatment Success Depends on Patient Expectations

July 28, 2020

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...

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How to become a Credible Hulk: Making sense of all the health information available

July 23, 2020

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...

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You Must Tame the Advice Monster

July 21, 2020

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...

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Are Our Patients Learning Anything?

July 20, 2020

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...

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PT Solutions Partners with Industrial Worksite to Provide COVID Screenings

July 8, 2020

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,...

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