Physical Therapy
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Good Communication in Healthcare: 5 Tips to Sharpen Your Skills
Good communication in healthcare is crucial, especially when dealing with patients or their family members. For healthcare professionals,…
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Starting Your Own Massage Therapy Practice
Though the benefits can be many, starting your own massage therapy practice is an undoubtedly daunting task. When…
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5 Cryotherapy Side Effects Therapists Should Watch For
Cryotherapy, also known as cold therapy or ice treatment, is an application utilized to bring the body temperature…
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What Is Evidence-Based Practice?
Evidence-based practice: What it is and how it can be properly utilized? Evidence-based medicine, whose philosophical origins extend…
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Hydrotherapy Treatment for Physical Therapists
Hydrotherapy treatment involves the use of unique properties in water to achieve therapeutic benefits. Hydrotherapy treatment, or the…
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Mindfulness, Meditation, and Pain
Right here, right now Mindfulness. It’s an evocative term, conjuring images of yoga retreats and burning incense. While…
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Post-Prostatectomy Kegel Exercises: Effective or Not?
Can Kegel exercises help male patients experiencing pain and incontinence after a prostatectomy? Kegel exercises strengthen the pelvic…
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Heads Up: Understanding a Traumatic Brain Injury
A concussion on the soccer field. A hit in the boxing ring. The blast of an improvised explosive…
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‘First, Do No Harm’: Patient Safety for Healthcare Professionals
It’s a fact of life: Mistakes happen. When those mistakes involve medical errors, however, the costs can be…
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Pain Management Trends Every Healthcare Professional Should Know About
“Pain that continues when it should not.” That’s how the American Chronic Pain Association defines chronic pain, from…
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National Physical Fitness and Sports Month
By Cristina Roy, PT, DPT, NCS Since the first official announcement by Ronald Reagan in 1983, each sitting…