Day 1 of differential diagnosis for the spinal manipulation institute kicked off today with review of cervical pathology and referred pain!

Great group of PT’s and ATC’s completed DN-2 in Atlanta, GA this weekend! Many are now Cert. DN through the Osteopractic PT courses from the American Academy of Manipulative Therapy! #dryneedling #choosePT #physicaltherapy

Saw some instant pain relief today using dry needling. Gotta love the outcomes! Thanks, Dr. Benjamin England, PT, DPT, FAAOMPT and Paul Bliton #AAMT #dryneedling

MSKU-3: Ultrasound in Rheumatology, oncology, and the physics of sound waves took off today in sunny Atlanta! Excited clinicians moving towards their RMSK and bringing the future of outpatient orthopedics into their offices!

Day 2 with a great group of PT’s, Dc’s and a DDS DN-1 in Baton Rouge, LA this weekend working towards Cert. DN. Osteopractic PT

Day 2 of MSKU-3 on the science of ultrasound physics, rheumatology, and oncology moved forward today with heavy review and screening protocols for RA in outpatient clinical practice! These clinicians are prepped and ready for their RMSK!

The Rheumatology Physio Peter O'Sullivan The support of exercise for pain relief is always interesting to me. I wish it was better than other passive therapies but that hasn’t been shown. Nor is it consistently tested with a sham. Yet, it’s always in the guidelines.

I’m looking for the best research that exercise is superior to manual therapy for chronic pain RTs appreciated Greg Lehman Sam Fischer, PT, DPT, FAAOMPT, OCS James Dunning PhD, DPT, MSc NoBullshitPhysio Derek Griffin Ben Cormack James Escaloni

Ben Cormack Sam Fischer, PT, DPT, FAAOMPT, OCS Bernadette J Johnson Paul Bliton James Dunning PhD, DPT, MSc NoBullshitPhysio Derek Griffin James Escaloni I don’t think the debate is really about what’s superior. It’s that exercise seems to always get recommended in CPGs instead of interventions that are equivalent

SMT-1 Miami on 8/4/24. Able to spend ample 1:1 instruction time with this great class helping them learn the nuance of skilled HVLA interventions for spine pain.

Day 2 of Ultrasound Guided Dry Needling with the Spinal Manipulation Institute took off today with guided needling to the hip and knee region! Clinicians from all over the country and Canada have come together to level up their skills!

Manual therapy is effective for treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome (pain and symptom severity scale). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34862562/

COST EFFECTIVENESS: Specialized manual therapy group had 0.159 more gains in quality-adjusted life years and cost €4027 less per patient versus orthopaedic care over 8 years. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36742152/

Anthem Blue Cross of California was fined $690,000 in January for failure to reimburse providers and members in a timely manner. APTA Private Practice CPTA beckerspayer.com/payer/5-payers…

I’m interested in trials directly comparing exercise against adjuncts. They seem hard to find. This makes we wonder how exercise is always the default recommendation without it being rigorously tested

This tweet has over 155k views. If you read the replies, there are tons of patients singing the praises of what PT has done for them. Interestingly, most of those replies praise interventions (passive) that are strongly ridiculed as worthless by many other PTs Healthcare🙃🧐🤷‍♂️

Exercise vs. EX+Manual therapy vs. EX+kinesiotaping. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39048701/ No difference, abstract is misleading. EX+MT had a significant change versus other 2 groups at 3 weeks.

Vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia can result in persistent hypoperfusion of the posterior circulation 💡 Perfusion abnormalities may be asymptomatic though findings are associated with increased stroke risk and compression of surrounding structures #neurology #medicine #radres