Recent Posts Tagged With 'healthcare'

• Do You Have My Back?

  Posted on Sunday August 3rd, 2008 at 23:33 in lawsuit, healthcare, maine, anthem, physical therapist, bc bs

  Physical Therapists in MainE are fighting for their livelihood against the ever-growing bravado in procuring profits by denying more on more services to subscribers and cutting reimbursements to providers. AFTER PT's in MainE signed on to be provider...

• New Resource on Fighting Chronic Disease

  Posted on Tuesday June 10th, 2008 at 14:06 in healthcare, low back pain

  Anew website has been published providing information and resources on fighting chronic diseases. As we all know, the biggest impact on quality of life and health care costs are the treatment of chronic diseases. The website called "Promising Pract...

• News Release From AAOMPT

  Posted on Wednesday May 28th, 2008 at 05:38 in Public Relations, healthcare, physical therapy, low back pain, lbp, evidence based medicine, aaompt

  WHEN IT COMES TO BACK PAIN “LESS IS MORE” More surgery, more drugs, and more injections are not what the doctor ordered. Tallahassee, Florida, May 20, 2008 – When it comes to chronic back pain management patients should know that “less is...

• Google Expands Into Healthcare

  Posted on Monday May 19th, 2008 at 18:59 in healthcare, open access, direct access

  Google has released their online health information service. You can navigate to it by clicking here. While I fully support individuals taking positive steps in understanding and becoming a participant in their healthcare, I hope this service is j...

• Treatment Over the Phone!

  Posted on Friday May 9th, 2008 at 14:38 in healthcare, low back pain, lbp

  Isn't the internet great? Now you can receive consultations for sacroiliac pain over the phone. While I agree general advice can be delivered via telecommunications (especially with an established patient) it seems to be a stretch to do the same fo...

• Bad McCain

  Posted on Tuesday March 4th, 2008 at 23:25 in autism, healthcare, vaccine, ebm, evidence based medicine

  Wow, I thought I'd found a candidate I could back. Not what am I going to do? I know this is not physical therapy related, but it is a prominent figure backing pseudoscience over evidence based medicine.Here is McCain's statement from The Wall Stre...

• Treatment of OA - Evidence Based Recommendations

  Posted on Tuesday February 19th, 2008 at 16:49 in healthcare, oa, osteoarthritis, physical therapy, evidence based medicine, direct access, special test

  A committee formed by the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) released a document on what they feel are evidence based recommendations for treatment of hip and knee Osteoarthritis (OA). The stated goal of this committee was:To deve...

• NATA Attacks Our Profession

  Posted on Saturday February 2nd, 2008 at 06:03 in healthcare, woo, nata, ebm, apta, direct access

  Arelease from the APTA states the NATA (athletic trainers association) has filed a lawsuit against them for "anticompetitive" activities. The main point relates to MANUAL THERAPY, specifically rib and spinal manipulation. Now, as the few of you tha...

• Recognition

  Posted on Monday January 28th, 2008 at 13:42 in healthcare, physical therapy

  A'thank you' to Eric Robertson from over at NPA Think Tank for mentioning this blog in a recent post by him. This also was cross posted on the Evidence in Motion blog. His post was a follow up to his earlier post calling for more PT's to blog.As a ...

• It'll Cost How Much?

  Posted on Monday October 22nd, 2007 at 11:13 in insurance, healthcare, physical therapy, direct access, copays

  Rising healthcare costs and the health insurance industries continuous push to maintain high profits have lead to higher and higher copays. Especially in PT where insurance companies aren't really sure what they are paying for. It's not uncommon fo...

• Unfair advantage

  Posted on Thursday July 26th, 2007 at 15:56 in insurance, healthcare, direct access, over-use

  Lost a patient today to the local hospital PT. Was it because the local hospital had more convenient hours? Better PT's? Closer to home? None of the above. UHC limits her visits to 20 a year with a $30 to come to our PT owned clinic; but the pt ha...

• The Faternity House that Medicine Is

  Posted on Monday July 23rd, 2007 at 20:14 in healthcare, ama

  A Wall Street Journal article reports old docs think new docs (residents) aren't getting the education they need because their weekly work hours are limited to 80 hours a week. That's right, 80 hours. It's actually not that good. That's an average...

• Interesting View on CAM

  Posted on Monday July 16th, 2007 at 21:44 in cam, healthcare, ebm

  David Colquhoun maintains a page on "Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)". It is a worth while read. You can find his website here. Below is a fun argument about the dilemma of CAM treatments.The dilemmas at the heart of 'alternative medi...

• Massachusets Health Care "Reform"

  Posted on Monday July 2nd, 2007 at 16:02 in insurance, legislation, healthcare, reform

  News that Massachusetts (to be referred to as Mass as I'm lucky to spell it correctly more than once) will now require it's citizens to have health insurance. I think this is significant as most people focus on health care improvement by formulating...