I just returned from my first trip to the APTA's Combined Sections Meeting, and I'm left with a variety of feelings about the experience. Overall, I would consider the trip a success, but there were definitely some aspects of CSM that left something to be desired. I did a lot of reflecting on the flight home, and here's what I came up with. ...

The following post was written by ADVANCE guest blogger Brian Knutsen, OTR/L, CHT, president of Buzzards Bay Hand Therapy LLC, located in Marion and Lexington, MA. SAN DIEGO -- The CSM session ''Athletic Injuries to the Forearm, Wrist and Hand,'' presented by Kevin J. Lawrence, PT, DHS, OCS, was well attended with standing room only. I was ...

I wanted to write this blog to help out some friends with a huge and exciting student-led initiative to gain support for the Foundation for Physical Therapy, a fund that supports research opportunities that will progress the evidence base of our field. This project encourages all PT and PTA schools throughout the country to participate in a ...

ST. LOUIS, MO -- The 63rd National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) Annual Meeting & Clinical Symposia is underway in the Gateway City amid a scorching heat wave. With the temperature outside climbing to 106 degrees (seriously, 106!), one of the most momentous developments here is the inauguration of James L. Thornton, MA, ATC, PES, CES, ...

I have been following along with the reports from Danielle Bullen, Rebecca Mayer and Lisa Lombardo on the goings-on in Tampa last week. I find the outcomes interesting and validating. One of my contentions with Vision 2020 is that it seemed too isolating. That seems to be holding up now. As a profession, we are finally starting to realize that no ...

During this final week of my break between semesters, I have come to realize the appreciation of staff in our clinic as it relates to furthering education. As I enter the clinic on Wednesday morning to cover an aquatic therapist's schedule on Wednesday, I notice an ''education meeting'' on my schedule at 1 p.m. The plan is: Aquatic patients in the ...

As part of my involvement with a committee that focuses on clinical practice for our NHS trust, we have been working on finding an outcome measurement tool. We want to be able to provide evidence to the commissioners that our work is effective and cost-efficient and most importantly, that they should continue to fund our services. Currently ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD- A strong crowd turned out on Thursday to attend the afternoon session, ''Understanding and Implementing Current Practice Guidelines for the Evaluation and Management of Sports-Related Concussions.'' This offering was dually presented by Scott Livingston, PT, PhD, SCS, ATC, and Scott G. Piland, PhD, ATC. ''Mild traumatic brain ...

I just returned from a trip to Louisville, KY, where I was lucky enough to spend three days participating in the national summit for the NeuroRecovery Network (NRN). For those who are not familiar with the NRN, it is a network funded by the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation that delivers activity-based treatments to spinal-cord-injury patients ...

By Valerie Newitt, Managing Editor ADVANCE for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine Smoking is a lousy, smelly, costly habit. Even worse, cigarette packs come lined with the foil of disease - think emphysema, lung cancer, heart disease, COPD, and more. We all know smoking is bad for us. So do patients. Education is available and anti-smoking ...