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Must Be That Time of Year Again

PTs giving gardening tips.  I will personally give one of the The Users’ Guide to Musculoskeletal Examination: fundamentals for the Evidence-Based Clinician to the first private practice...

What do Patients want from their Physical Therapist?

Almost 1200 patients surveyed in the UK about what patients want from their physician. Patients place the highest value on thoroughness followed by: Seeing a...

Wii Are Completely Losing it

According to this Jacksonsun.com article in yet another over represented story about Wiihabiliation, has 2 quotes that are representative of our entire profession. Both are from...

Placebo effect more pronounced when you pay more!

Interesting study about how much you pay and the impact of a placebo effect.  Great write up by Justin Wolfer in NY Times as well....

Thanks for straightening this out…..

So this is the difference between personal trainers and PT’s according to this article in the Post-Crescent from Appleton, Wisconsin “A lot of times, people...

Least Surprising Health Care Story of All Time

UnitedHealth ranks last in survey.  I am quite sure their wholly owned subsidiary ACN Group would also rank last amongst PT’s. larry@physicaltherapist.com

EBP Ambassador of the Month-Shannon Brownlee

Since we go after the cretins of the PT world, we thought it is only fitting to highlight those that are carrying the banner for...

Now Wii have a use for this

Get rid of the wiihabilitation craze and get with Johnny Lee.  I saw him demonstrate this as part of the TED conference last week.  By...

Good News?

Health care spending will top $4 Trillion by 2017.  This will be about 6.7% annual increase in spending which is nearly three times the rate...

A definite blow to rating systems for providers. Should better providers be paid more?

Whether your a fan of insurance company rating systems or not, the impact was dealt a serious blow recently when Cigna altered its ratings of...