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Supply and Demand by Lisa Mueller: My newest thought project for this week is to better understand how physical therapist staffing is predicted for a new clinic. How does a new healthcare company or private practice facility estimate what kind of staffing it will need in a new location? Read More...
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I Can Teach by Lisa Mueller: This weekend I taught a continuing education course with three other therapists. It took well over a year for us to organize the content, create the handouts and visual displays and market the course to get as many participants as possible. It was a fun Read More...
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Patient Handouts by Lisa Mueller: During my first clinical rotation as a student (which was a short, four-week orientation), my clinical instructor often gave me the task of finding research articles or handouts to give our patients. I distinctly remember working with one patient who Read More...
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Another Resolution? by Lisa Mueller: As I typed away my blog from last week, I wasn't very happy with my professional goals for 2013. In 2012, my professional goal was to transition from acute care practice into outpatient orthopedics, and I'm both happy and proud that I was able to make Read More...
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Direct Access Discussion by Lisa Mueller: As I've become more comfortable in my outpatient orthopedic setting, I've occasionally seen a few patients under direct access, maybe five to seven overall. I wasn't totally comfortable with it as first, since I was still unsure about the orthopedic practice Read More...
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Structured Learning by Lisa Mueller: I've been a clinical instructor to a few students since graduating myself a few years ago. I enjoy teaching and watching students execute skills they studied prior to arriving at the clinical. Over the past year or so, I've read a few physical therapy Read More...
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Unlimited Therapy by Lisa Mueller: We often hear a lot about the limited number of visits many insurance companies place on physical therapy benefits. Medicare, for example, allows $1880 maximum allotment annually for physical therapy coverage. It's hard to work against the clock. There Read More...
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Dry Needling by Lisa Mueller: The discussion and use of dry needling in physical therapy practice has increased substantially within the last year. I graduated from PT school three years ago, and we rarely, if ever, heard or discussed dry needling as a treatment option. Reading through Read More...
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Direct Access by Lisa Mueller: Usually about once or twice a year, I break down and make an appointment for a massage. As all the hours add up of providing manual therapy for my patients, as well as my moderately rigorous exercise routine, I feel like I need some relief to start fresh Read More...
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I've Been Cancelled? by Lisa Mueller: For the past eight months, I met with a group of acute-care therapists to develop an early mobility presentation a PT conference. With four hours of allotted time, we met one to two times a month to organize the presentation. We divided up tasks such Read More...
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Live Your Best Life by Lisa Mueller: As I've been working in an outpatient orthopedic setting for the first time in almost three years, I'm beginning to remember some of the perks of working with these patients. It's been fun to educate my patients in a different way than when I worked in Read More...
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Guest Lecture by Lisa Mueller: When I was finishing up my bachelor's degree in Spanish, I seriously considered withdrawing from PT school and instead getting my teaching certificate to teach Spanish. Many times I taught other students how to remember different verbs, or had volunteered Read More...
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Quality Education and the DPT Degree by Lisa Mueller: A comment was recently left on one of the blogs I wrote last summer regarding the DPT reputation and the obligation of the APTA to reduce the costs of the DPT degree. #Icompletelyagree I left Marquette University with a beautiful DPT degree and a lot Read More...
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Mandatory National Association Membership? by Lisa Mueller: I met a friend for coffee this week, and we started talking about the Combined Sections Meeting in Chicago and our plans to participate in some of the APTA and WPTA events this spring. Eventually the conversation shifted to the APTA in general and the Read More...
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I'm Busy! by Lisa Mueller: I searched and searched online for interesting physical therapy articles to review, or new trends in physical therapy to discuss this week but couldn't find anything that really sparked my interest. When I was in college, I found millions of ways to distract Read More...
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