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What is prehabilitation and why is it important?

What is prehabilitation and why is it important?

September 11, 2020
Your surgery is scheduled, and you are eager to get it over with. You have been instructed on the post-operative process, including the need for rehabilitation. Your surgeon explains that following the surgery, you will need physical therapy to restore...
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Importance of Early Physical Therapy Consultation

Importance of Early Physical Therapy Consultation

September 3, 2020
When should you see someone for low back pain? This is a tricky question as it comes with the big “it depends” tag attached. Studies show that up to 90% of low back pain resolves on its own. On the...
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How Physical Therapy Can Benefit Patients with Anxiety & Depression

How Physical Therapy Can Benefit Patients with Anxiety & Depression

August 18, 2020
Physical therapy can have a monumental impact on a person’s life. Often these benefits on in the physical realm, such as strength, power, endurance, hypertrophy, balance, mobility, and functional capacity. While many cognitive and emotional benefits have been recognized as...
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What We’re Taught About Pain is Wrong: 6 Common Pain Myths

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?

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?

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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Treatment Success Depends on Patient Expectations

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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You Must Tame the Advice Monster

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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Simplifying and Complicating Motor Control Treatment

Simplifying and Complicating Motor Control Treatment

July 7, 2020
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...
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