If you do not regularly use a repeated motion exam as part of your evaluation, you should! Here are 5 reasons why.

I often get asked online and at courses how I market my practice. Here are 5 ways that have worked for me.

Just wanted to share this epic document one of my former mentees made when studying for the OSCE. As you can tell from the utter thoroughness of the document, he passed with flying colors! Thanks to Dr. Corey Simon, DPT, PT, FAAOMPT for this great study/review guide! I actually use it to review prior to testing Fellow candidates! Please feel free to share it with your colleagues, classmates, and students! It is amazingly comprehensive!

Here is a link to the file in pdf format via my public dropbox folder.
Joint Arthrokinematics

If you're having trouble with the above link, try this via google docs

Today's Quick Links are from Dr. Perry Nickelston, DC, FMS, SFMA, Sports Medicine Research, and PT Think Tank

via Allan Besselink

Agreed Allan! I read an article as a new grad in 1998 that stated we should be primary care and not tertiary care. With direct access and a much higher level of education, we can be so much more to our patients who are also our clients/customers. Sometimes we are better advocates for their health than the gatekeepers who just write more scripts for unnecessary meds and testing. A patient of mine asked me yesterday if his wife could see me. He said his PCP stated she may have a rotator cuff issue and was told to hold off on PT until she gets an x-ray. He said even his 6 year old niece knows that an x-ray wouldn't help him with that Dx. Luckily, we can just see her with direct access and avoid waiting for the referral.

via NOI Notes

Another great post from the archives of NOI Notes. The implications for realizing mirror neurons are numerous. Demonstrating HEP or an exercise for a patient with aberrant or painful movement should be done well and repeatedly. Love Butler's initial thought!

"Don't hang out with idiots all the time!"


I have been having my students learn manual techniques from different perspectives:

• watching me do the technique on a patient
• having me perform the technique on them
• breaking down the components of the technique when they are doing it with verbal and tactile cues
• having them watch the videos on the blog/youtube page
• reading a description of the technique

I got this idea from a current intern who learned to juggle as part of a motor control class; the instructor presented different ways to juggle for 15 minutes at the beginning of each class. By the end of the semester, they could all juggle three objects!

We know from education research that there are many different learning styles and we can take that and apply it to teaching movement and exercise to patients and students.