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Where is all the exercise equipment?

Just back from the PPS meeting in Phoenix.  I echo Rob’s comments-great meeting organization, great section leadership, and great content.  I had to miss the...

Patient Satisfaction-Useless Part II

Part II from Oct 2005. Just as relevant today. My last post attempted to discredit the patient satisfaction survey process that many physical therapy clinics...

Connect and Optimal

I read with interest APTA’s testimony on CMS’ pay for performance initiative: APTA Links Performance-Based Pay to Fixing Medicare Problems APTA urged a congressional committee...

Contrarian Truth and Best Questions to ask

Since we are going to go down the path of the best non-clinical questions to ask patients, I thought I would start this first contrarian...

Non-clinical EBP

Over the next several weeks, I would like to thread some “non-clinical” EBP information.  For example, we know that in LBP for work comp patients...

Feedblitz

For those of you who have become accustomed to reading the EIM posts in your email, you will notice that we have switched email engines...

Chronic back pain, exercise helps a little. Not for acute back pain

Link: Chronic back pain, exercise helps a little. Not for acute back pain. Cryptic article in Medical News that mentions Cochrane, NIOSH, and TENS in...

OpinionJournal – The Western Front

Link: OpinionJournal – The Western Front. More broadly, Mr. Bredesen laid out a philosophy for reform. His analogy was that today health care is like...

Health Care Quality Programs Under Fire

I invite you to read the article that appeared in today’s WSJ: Health Care Quality Programs Under Fire.  Here is an excerpt: The multibillion-dollar program...

Techno Enhancements

Thanks to all of you who have maintained the momentum of this blog. We are over 300 email subscribers thru bloglet and have a readership...