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Immigration and PT
by Jason Marketti

I spoke with Emily Lopez Neumann, an an immigration attorney at Reddy & Neumann, P.C., Houston, TX, about the immigration process for PTs recently. What follows is a Q&A of our discussion. Question: Are you seeing a change in the way immigration Read More...

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Controversial Pain Therapies
by Jason Marketti

The debate continues for America on whether to legalize this. Pros and cons have been heard on both sides and still it is unsolved for the majority of us. Let's take a look at other "controversial" pain therapies. Craniosacral Therapy (CST). Some have Read More...

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Therapy Menu
by Jason Marketti

Like buying fine foods by number we should offer a therapy menu for those who are undecided what will take care of their aches and pains. It would look something like this: JASON'S THERAPY #1 Massage...........................$XX.00 (For first 15 minutes. Read More...

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Progression
by Jason Marketti

Therapy treatments should show progression, and insurance companies will approve treatments as long as the patient will progress. This is probably why few PTs are in hospice care. But what about PD and dementia-related diseases that are slowly progressive Read More...

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Health Care Unions
by Jason Marketti

I got to thinking, what if therapy was part of a union which would help us keep patient-to-therapist ratios to a limit, allow us 40 hours a work week no matter if the case load is there or not, and limit our productivity standard to 80 percent with a Read More...

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