If you follow this blog you know I am always posting about the importance of children being active especially outdoors. For the first time on this past Friday night, we went birdwatching. Now, my first thoughts when we decided to sign up for a guided birdwatching walk were not…
Barely into April, we see lots of interesting news items happening in our PT world: Hypocrisy Calif AMA Charlie Sheen wasn’t the only piece of work out of California these past several weeks. The debacle known as AB 783 stoppopts…
Original Source of April #Physicaltherapy stuff
There is so much discussion and promotion of getting children physically active and outdoors especially in the adolescent age range. A recent study evaluated data on the self reports of mode of transportation to school and extracurricular physical activity in 1700 adolescents (892 girls) ages 13-18.5 years old from Spain….
Pain Medicine published research on age related changes of pain experiences in individuals with cerebral palsy. Pain, touch sensitivity and quality of life was evaluated in 86 individuals with cerebral palsy compared to 115 healthy volunteers. The subjects were grouped by age: 6-10 years, 11-17 years and 18-30 years…
~Selena
Original Source of The California Debacle AB 783 StopPOPTS
Disappointed… very disappointed is how I currently feel. You’re all familiar with the Staples commercial and the “Easy” button, right? I tend to think we all prefer life to be easy. Is there any reason we sometimes choose to complicate…
Original Source of Collaboration in #physicaltherapy Creates BETTER Physical Therapists…
Thanks to @otnotes on Twitter who tweeted about this EXCELLENT, FREE resource. The Cincinnati Children’s Hospital offers evidence based care guidelines for many pediatric occupational and physical therapy interventions. The guidelines for each intervention describe the target population, target users, introduction (theory/ research), guidelines recommendations, decision tree charts and references….
Last week I wrote an article on what I considered essential exercises to add to every program, which included the shoulder W exercise for external rotation. I received a lot of feedback from that article and many requests to post a video describing the technique. Although, this is a pretty…
Some things can be mind boggling… I just read some news that I’ll share in a bit that immediately brought me back to the 2011 Combined Section Meeting. The coolest aspect of any conference or meeting is the opportunity to…
Original Source of Congrats to a #physicaltherapy Team – Creating…
For those of you who help older students with disabilities, you may want to check out this free web based program called JobTips . This website, brought to you by Do2Learn, offers the following: “JobTIPS is a free program designed to help individuals with disabilities such as autism explore career…