My aim within this article is to help SAVE YOU MONEY without sacrificing quality when it comes to buying your tools. Look, IASTM (Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization) is a pretty good weapon to have in your toolbox when it comes to the war on eliminating certain types of pain and movement restriction within yourself or on others (i.e. your patients, if …
Blood Flow Restriction: Evidence and Uses For Injury Rehabilitation
NOTE: If you’re looking for a complete introduction pertaining to blood flow restriction training, including when, how and why to use it, be sure to check out my article: What is Blood Flow Restriction Training? How, Why and When to Use it as it contains a complete rundown on everything you need to know. This article will comprise some basic …
What is Blood Flow Restriction Training? How, Why and When to Use it
Note: If you’re interested in knowing the research behind the efficacy of blood flow restriction for clinical populations and therapeutic purposes, be sure to check out my article: Blood Flow Restriction: Evidence and Uses For Injury Rehabilitation, where I provide an overview (consisting of large amount of findings within literature) towards using BFR within the clinic. Also, this article you’re …
Ten Mistakes New Physical Therapy Graduates Often Make
We all make mistakes, and I am certainly no exception to this. While I’ve learned so much over the years in regards to everything that pertains to my physical therapy pursuits, one of the biggest things I’ve learned is this: The more we love something and the greater our passion towards it, the greater our desire becomes to help others avoid …
The Functional Movement Screen: Why New PT Grads Should Know It
The functional movement screen (FMS) is a great certification and system that I often encourage new PT graduates to pursue if they’re planning on working in outpatient-based orthopedics settings. There’s many reasons for this, which I will cover within this article. The FMS is a great piece of arsenal for the recent PT graduate to have in their “toolkit”. It …
The CSCS Certification for Physical Therapists: Is it Worth Getting?
A common question I am often asked by new and aspiring physical therapists is whether or not a CSCS designation is worth pursuing. While the CSCS designation is not specific to the field of physical therapy, physical therapists working with active and athletic populations often hold this designation as it helps to convey the notion that the individual has a …
How New PT Graduates Can Write a Better Resume: Important Tips
Congrats on getting through PT school and passing your board exam(s)! Whether you had the time of your life or hated every moment of it, your next step is looking to find employment as a newly minted physical therapist. If you can make it through PT school and the board exam, then you certainly can find work within your chosen …
How Physical Therapists Can Pay Off Student Loan Debt Quicker
If you’re reading this article, it may just be because you (and I) are two of the 1.5 million individuals in the US with student loan debt. If you’re currently feeling like paying back your loans is crippling your life in one or more ways, this article should be able to help you out, but don’t expect sexy answers or …
Avoiding Burnout in PT: How New Grads Can Keep Their Passion for PT
Burnout in the healthcare realm is a legitimate phenomenon, and the profession of physical therapy is not immune to it. While physical therapy often ranks very high every year for job satisfaction, there is still ample amount of burnout that occurs. Is it inevitable? Perhaps for certain circumstances. I would argue, however that it is largely preventable, provided that we …
Eight Important LinkedIn Tips for PT Students and New PT Graduates
If you’re a PT student or new PT graduate and you’re not using LinkedIn, you should be. It takes relatively little time to get an account going, and once it’s up and running you’ve basically got an online resume that doesn’t sleep or go on vacation. It’s an easy and effective way to begin building your reputation and letting the …
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