I'm back in Pennsylvania after two days at the AFPPA Fall CME Conference and Exhibition at the Arizona Grand Resort in Phoenix. Upon my arrival at the conference, I was excited to hear the organization had broken all previous attendance records, with nearly 600 registered attendees. And with speakers, exhibitors and guests, there are more ...

 Last weekend, I was in Denver attending the COPD Educator Course sponsored by the AARC and the COPD Foundation of Colorado. The conference was excellent! If you've never been to one, you should go the next time it's offered. The speakers were great. The host hotel, the Doubletree in Denver, was a beautiful building with comfortable rooms ...

Hello, all. I have been gone for a while, attending the Association of Asthma Educators conference and taking a much-needed vacation, but now I'm back. One of the things I noticed was the lack of respiratory therapists at the meeting. Many of the attendees were either nurses or doctors. The respiratory field was not well-represented at all. We ...

It's finally summer! The motorcycle has been polished, the rose bush on the back porch is blooming, and conferences are happening all over the country. Get out, enjoy the scenery, and attend a meeting. I try to incorporate conferences into vacations. It's a good time to unwind, do something different, stay involved, look at things in a fresh ...

BALTIMORE--On Friday, June 12, Helene M. Fearon, PT, was honored with the 14th annual Maley Lecture. Since 1996, this lecture has been an integral part of APTA's annual conference. Fearon, a graduate of Marquette University's physical therapy program and co-owner of Fearon Physical Therapy, has experience in reimbursement, fiscal management and ...

BALTIMORE--The promoters of the PT 2009 Second Annual Oxford Debate promised a rocking argumentative good time-and they delivered on Friday June 12 to a packed room of conference attendees who happily hooted and hollered approval or disapproval for their chosen side. The Oxford Debate is held in interactive fashion with one side presenting a ...

BALTIMORE--Do we really need all of the regulations Medicare and the physician fee schedule places on the PT profession-or do the regulations just make practicing PT more cumbersome and confusing? Likely a little bit of both, according to the panelists at the 2009 Rothstein Debate, ''When Does Regulation Become Over-Regulation, and When Does ...

BALTIMORE--In their session this morning, Timothy E. Hewett, PhD, FACSM and Terry Malone, PT, EdD, ATC, FAPTA, discussed how and why female athletes who participate in jumping and pivoting sports are 4 to 6 times more likely to sustain a knee ligament injury, such as ACL injury, than male athletes. Years ago, Dr. Malone stubled upon this gender ...

When you taste the food at the banquet table, all other delectables pale. That is how I feel coming back from the AAPA conference. Not to say school is inferior, but I now view it in a different light. When you see the big picture, the finer details do not seem as intimidating. At the 37th annual AAPA conference, I learned about the intricacies ...

BALTIMORE--What's the difference 20 years can make? As former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich pointed out Wednesday night while making the keynote address at PT 2009, one need only look at the Baltimore Inner Harbor. ''The area's growth over the past 20 years is a symbol of optimism and what working together can produce.'' Gingrich addressed ...