Tag Archives: Clinic
4 Strategies to Improve Therapeutic Alliance
Introduction Individuals may be placed in an intimidate environment when receiving musculoskeletal care from a provider. Yielding positive outcomes and enhancing the overall patient experiences is highly dependent on creating a professional relationship between the patient and the practitioner. Therapeutic … Continue reading
How Do We Manage Glenohumeral Instability?
Individuals with shoulder stability may have mobility or motor control issues that can put themselves at risk during functional tasks and potentially lead to progressive pathologies. It’s important to decipher the difference at a particular joint or body part to … Continue reading
What Does the Evidence Say About Treating Neck Pain? Target The Thoracic Spine.
Interventions applied to the thoracic spine and ribs may help provide more insight into how it could potentially lead to treating individuals with neck pain. Cleland et al1 introduced a study to investigate the predictive validity of how patients with … Continue reading
How Do We Manage Cervicogenic Headaches?
Cervicogenic headaches are typically unilateral headaches that occur from a multitude of factors including postural syndrome, muscular imbalances, and many more. We might to evaluate other things including workstation ergonomics, sitting, and standing postures, as well as how they perform … Continue reading
Goniometers: What Are We Really Measuring?
Goniometry is typically utilized in common practice among physical therapists, occupational therapists, and other healthcare professionals. Goniometry allows the clinician to be able to measure the range of motion of specific joints of the body. Measurements are generally taken as … Continue reading
Should We Follow the ‘Rules’?
Clinical prediction rules are a helpful tool to help guide clinicians when managing the care of patients. The key word is ‘guide’. I find it difficult to place a specific patient into a clinical prediction tool that completely matches the … Continue reading
A Clinical Pandemic: Burnout Syndrome
The ongoing events of the COVID-19 pandemic have certainly contributed to the rate of burnout experienced by health care workers. The volume of patients has risen exponentially and placed tremendous strain on the health care system. Prior to the pandemic, … Continue reading
What are the best strategies to become an amazing clinician and improve patient outcomes?
Welcome to the blog! My name is Eric Trauber and I am a physical therapist. I am board-certified orthopaedic clinical specialist from the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties. I am also a Fellow of the American Academy of … Continue reading
National Doctors’ Day
Last year was definitely a rough one for everybody across the globe. But probably no one had it harder than doctors. Doctors who are just doing their job to save lives in the ongoing fight against COVID-19. They should be … Continue reading
Product Spotlight: CanDo® Treatment Table
One common tool that Physical Therapists use is a treatment table. For this, we now offer our line of CanDo® treatment tables! This product line includes a variety of different treatment table options to suit the needs of both doctors and patients. CanDo® treatment … Continue reading