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03.14.10
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Starting Down the Path: The promise and challenge of electronic health records in therapy
| MT, Nursing, NT, OT, PT, RT, SLP
Electronic health records (EHRs) are coming to the practice of therapy sooner, rather than later. The use of this technology raises a host of practical, ethical, and legal questions that therapists should consider. Take a look at the promise and challenges posed by the transition to EHRs.
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03.03.10
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Raising the “VisAbility” for Inclusive Fitness: Advocating health and fitness jobs for those with physical challenges
| PT
For most people, working out at a local gym or health club is part of their normal routine and provides them the needed exercise to stay fit and maintain their weight goals. But many individuals with disabilities, especially those using wheelchairs, can’t get on a treadmill or a step machine and cannot participate in most group exercise classes. But now innovative equipment, like the Johnny G Krankcycle® by Matrix and Project VisAbility, are now starting to change the way people think about exercise and therapy.
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03.01.10
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Through Fire and Ice: New applications for hot and cold therapy
| PT
Used since antiquity, heat therapy and cryotherapy, also known as cold therapy, are the least invasive, surprisingly efficient, and most cost-effective methods of modulating pain. Thankfully, the technology of today goes beyond some of the archaic and messy available methods – melting ice packs, hellishly hot hydrocollator pads, and the ever-famous bag of frozen peas.
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02.14.10
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Putting Your Best Foot Forward: Today’s trends in gait rehabilitation
| OT, PT
With the average adult taking more than 2,500 steps per day per foot, one bad gait behavior repeated millions of times could have a devastating effect on the muscles, nerves, and joints. In an effort to curtail long-term damage, today’s physical therapists and occupational therapists are mixing some tried-and-true techniques with new technology intended to increase endurance, strengthen muscles, and improve coordination and balance.
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02.13.10
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Pressing the Wrong Buttons: Navigating the minefield of myofascial trigger points
| PT
Understanding how to treat pain is the cornerstone of nearly every healthcare practice, whether conventional or complementary alternative medicine. Therefore, it is important for all practitioners to realize as many pain generators as possible. Read on to learn how today's therapy professionals are targeting myofascial trigger points – the hyperirritable spots in skeletal muscle that are painful on compression and can give rise to characteristic referred pain, referred tenderness, motor dysfunction, and autonomic phenomena.
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01.31.10
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The Bone of the Matter: The role of physical therapy in treating juvenile osteoporosis
| PT
Osteoporosis is a condition marked by insufficient bone formation or progressive loss of bone density. With decreased bone density, the bones become weakened and more susceptible of fracture.While stereotyped for the geriatric demographic, osteoporosis does not affect just older people. There can be an early onset of the condition in children, and physical therapists have a definitive role to play in treating them.
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01.30.10
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Turning Up the Heat in Therapy: Breaking barriers with the Burn Machine device
| PT
Rehabilitation professionals looking for a better fitness routine especially for their wheelchair-bound patients have come across a new option to strengthen core muscles and burn calories. The Burn Machine, unique among free weight systems, features an asymmetrical barbell design with a center bar with a patented sliding "burn" counterweight that can be positioned either to the left or right, changing the body's center of gravity. Read on to see what professionals in the field have to say about this device.
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01.18.10
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Springing Back to Life: From AVM stroke to homecoming queen in 330 days with the Armeo®Spring
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When 16-year-old Alyssa Bray was struck with a ruptured arterio-venous malformation and severe hemorrhage, she was left hospitalized, only able to wiggle the toes on her left foot. While eleven months later, Alyssa would walk to front of a school assembly to be crowned Homecoming Queen, the real challenge for this former softball pitcher was to regain the use of her paretic right arm and hand. Read on to learn how the ArmeoSpring upper extremity function system is making this possible.
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01.17.10
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Wheel in the Hope: Mobility issues in today’s day habilitation programs
| OT, PT
It may surprise many to learn that a wheelchair is not the confining and freedom-less space that many think of it as. For many individuals, it is the main source of independence and freedom. Read to learn how working with clients and selecting the proper wheelchair to fit their needs is one of the most significant and rewarding aspects of being a therapist at the Arc of Monroe County in Rochester, N.Y.
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01.04.10
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Amping Up Current Therapy: Functional electrical stimulus and the changing times
| OT, PT
For patients affected by paralysis resulting from spinal cord injury, head injury, stroke, or other neurological disorders, interference with the electrical signals between the brain and the muscles results in various forms of paralysis. Today, physical therapists and occupational therapists laboriously working to retrain these patients’ muscles have opted to return to the source, adding electricity to the regimen in hopes of regaining their former range of function.
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Al Guerra discusses the benefits of the IM Gait Mate, which consists of a wireless shoe insert that is activated when an individuals heel strikes the ground. A constant reference tone can be heard through wireless headphones set to a desired gait speed; additional, real-time auditory feedback is given to direct the user if their speed is too fast, too slow, or right on.
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