Tag Archives: Clinical
Shared Decision-Making: Make Patients ACTIVE!
Patients will come and seek help from a qualified healthcare professional. Individuals will look to these experts to help provide them appropriate treatment for their respective ailments. However, healthcare is truly individualized, and each patient needs to be evaluated separately. … Continue reading
Balance Pads Improve More Than Just Balance
Patients may present to physical therapy to work on their balance. Deficits in balance can be a result of decreased, strength, flexibility, and many other contributing factors. Balance training is prescribed to help improve those specific impairments and functional limitations. … Continue reading
Person-Centered or Person-Focused Care?
Providing care to patients should focus on individual clinical presentations, impairments, and functional limitations. Clinicians should treat the patients as an individual. We need to be able to recognize patient belief systems, values, and expectations. Contextual factors can play a … Continue reading
Static vs. Dynamic Stretching. Which One Is the Best?
Static vs. Dynamic Stretching. Which One Is the Best? What type of stretching is the best? This is a common question when incorporating stretching into your self-management program. Before we can answer these questions, we may need to understand the … Continue reading
3 Tips for Postural Syndrome
Postural Syndrome refers to individuals in prolonged postured for a long period of time that can result in musculoskeletal impairments including tendons, muscles, and joints. This can be a result of increased sitting during the workday. It becomes imperative to … Continue reading
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
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
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
3 Common Resistance Band Problems
2. Set Up Traditionally, placing the resistance band in the door or on the door knob is a recommended method to anchor the band. Sometimes individuals may have a challenge of setting up their exercise equipment in their home or … Continue reading