The Graston Technique (GT) is an Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (IASTM) Technique that is used by a variety of healthcare providers..
Lower Back Pain and PT Utilization
Throughout our professional world there has been a push to establish PT as the primary healthcare specialty to address musculoskeletal pain. This..
Fastpitch softball is one of the most popular female sports in the United States. As of 2008 there were more than 2.5 million young women playing..
5 Common Running Injuries and How PTs Can Treat Them
Running is a common form of exercise; however, the rate of running related injuries has been reported to be as high as 85%.8 With an injury rate..
While some kids arrive at therapy with a full tank of gas, rearing for the green light signal so they can fly off the starting block, some kids..
Some of my kids have such a wide focus that they can’t focus on what I’m trying to ask them to do. Picture the amount of space I’m working with..
The PT's Guide to Improving Squat Mobility
Being involved in the CrossFit community for over 6 years, I have seen that Every PT treating athletes should have a system for assessing and..
In the therapy clinic, Multiple Sclerosis (MS) can be a challenging and difficult chronic disease with a wide range of variable symptoms to treat...
Heat Modalities: Fundamentals for New Grad OTs
Occupational therapists (OTs) use a wide variety of physical agent modalities (PAMs) in a wide variety of settings as a preparatory activity to..
How to Be Occupation-Based in Acute Care OT
We all learned intervention ideas in occupational therapy school. We heard all the research. But once you get into practice, being occupation-based..