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A Letter to Graduates
by Lisa Mueller
It's hard for me to believe it has been four years since I graduated PT school. I remember working as a student with physical therapists who had been practicing for four or five years and looking at them as a source of information and experience. Now Read More...
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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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Mentor or Sponsor?
by Lisa Mueller
Since I've spent a lot of time in the past 18 months making changes in my own career and developing the content of the training and orientation program for new employees at my clinic, the concept of mentors has always been on my mind. Even when I graduated Read More...
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I Tube, Do YouTube?
by Lisa Mueller
Over the weekend I was reading the article for our staff journal club this week, a recent research paper investigating the effects of thoracic thrust manipulation (with non-thrust cervical mobilization) for the treatment of neck pain. As you may recall, 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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Ducks and Physical Therapy
by Lisa Mueller
This week during the show "The Voice" on NBC, Aflac aired a 60-second commercial showing the Aflac duck working with a physical therapist to recover from some injuries. (The injuries were aired in earlier commercials). I think Aflac is marketing services Read More...
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When is PT Inappropriate?
by Lisa Mueller
A friend of mine works as a nurse in a hospice setting and she mentioned to me a few days ago that many of the patients she admits into their facility come with orders for physical therapy. I've seen articles and research about the effectiveness of physical Read More...
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Will Travel for Work
by Lisa Mueller
I'm traveling for work this week, my second "business" trip as a physical therapist. My employer is opening a new clinic in northern Wisconsin that also has a rehab staff member onsite, so I'm here finalizing the set-up and training the new staff member. Read More...
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Mechanical Pain
by Lisa Mueller
I worked with a therapist last week (setting up a new clinic in northern Wisconsin) who has many years of experience in PT. It was interesting to work alongside him and see his approach to patients and the sometimes immediate results his patients had Read More...
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CE Course
by Lisa Mueller
Last year I spent a lot of time preparing material to present at the Wisconsin PT spring conference and was disappointed when I learned the class was canceled the week prior due to low enrollment numbers. I worked with three other therapists for months Read More...
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Strengthen your Strengths
by Lisa Mueller
"Success is achieved by developing our strengths , not by eliminating our weaknesses." -- Marilyn vos Savant I just finished my performance review for 2012 at work. It's actually an enjoyable experience for myself as I like reflecting on the previous Read More...
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What Should We Measure?
by Lisa Mueller
I'm slowly becoming more interested in the idea of performance reviews for physical therapists. The first few years as a physical therapist I didn't really think much about the process, because I was new and enjoying my career and that was overwhelming Read More...
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Adding More Staff
by Lisa Mueller
The clinic I work at is busy. Every available appointment is booked for the next week and a half. As patients call to schedule an evaluation and I realize the volume of patients that need to be seen for rehab, I start to wonder when the time is right Read More...
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American Heart Month
by Lisa Mueller
February is American Heart Month and as we see more red-dress pins and other symbols recognizing the impact of heart diseases, I thought this would be a good time to review the signs and symptoms of two major pathologies impacting our patients' health: Read More...
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Environment of Healing
by Lisa Mueller
I'm right in the middle of reading The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. It's a pretty interesting book about how very small changes can result in big outcomes. He writes about small changes impacting huge reductions in crime rates, fashion trends and Read More...
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