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It’s Time for PTs to Commandeer the National Spotlight

The I consider myself extremely fortunate to have found my particular career path, because I belong to a relatively small community of professionals who genuinely...

PT Residency Journey: The Beginning

Family, full time in the clinic, occasional side gig, self care, and now , residency. It’s not a workload for the faint of heart. Kristen...

Physical Therapy: More Than Just Stretches

A few months ago I was at a family dinner and my sister-in-law was moving gingerly and grimacing in pain. I asked what was wrong...

Should We Really Fight the PTA and OTA Payment Reduction?

The rehab therapy industry is no stranger to payment cuts, especially at the hands of CMS. But what if we were to look at CMS...

What’s Up with Therapists and Money

I’m on a mission. I want to get to the bottom of why therapists struggle to talk about their fees. When I mentor therapists, setting...

Bridging the PT Diversity Gap

This post was written with assistance from Dana Gundrum, WebPT’s Culture Captain. Earlier this month, WebPT made a lot of people on Facebook very, very...

You Hurt Because You Are Fat

That feeling hit me like a brick. That feeling I get when I’m asked to help a patient in the emergency department for constant unrelenting...

Strangled to Death by a Mouse

The vitality of the therapy profession that we have come to know and love is dying a slow death-and it’s not by what you think....

Burning and churning: Why PTs are leaving patient care

For the past several years, my company, WebPT, has conducted an annual survey to get a pulse on the rehab therapy industry, identify trends that...

Stop Calling My Patients Targets

One of my all-time favorite comic strips was Gary Larson’s Far Side. Larson’s morbid sense of humor often caught me off guard and caused an...