10 Papers Every Physical Therapist Should Read

I originally thought this blog would be a way for me to discuss current physical therapy research and help new…

Do Core Exercises Matter?

I die a little inside every time I hear someone mention “the core.” It has become a term that is…

We all should be a little embarrassed right now. In a recent court decision, KT Health Inc., the makers of…

38,367. New Grad Physical Therapy released my article, 8 Lies I Learned In Physical Therapy School, on January 9th, 2018…

Dr. James Dunning of The Spinal Manipulation Institute, a group that provides continuing education courses on spinal manipulation and dry…

I am sure you could use some extra money right now, right? Should you pick up a few extra hours…

We could really step up our marketing game as physical therapists. Really crank up the fear. For decades, we have…

I received a concerning piece of mail a few weeks ago. It was an advertisement for a nearby instrument-assisted soft…

Get out your baloney detection kit. On Gwyneth Paltrow’s rather bizarrely and hilariously named website, Goop, she links to a…

It’s easy to look up into the deep, dark sky and see the patterns. Each star is an amazing…

Our professors in physical therapy school always tried to paint a rosy picture of how the real clinical world…

In The Demon-Haunted World: Science As A Candle In the Dark, Carl Sagan provides an economical definition of science that…

Craniosacral therapy is a form of light touch manual therapy that was designed by Dr. John E. Upledger in the…

Like many other treatments that physical therapists do, it seems as though the enthusiasm and support behind kinesiology taping is…

The trials we looked at in part one were largely underwhelming. Let’s take a broader look at some of the…

Every drug store carries “kinesiology tape,” for anyone to pick up and buy now. It is common to see athletes,…

We have three questions to answer here: What does dry needling actually do, and are there any effects beyond a…

Well conducted clinical trials are not the only things that can give us insight into the efficacy of a treatment…

Dry needling is the latest panacea in the therapy world that is neither physical nor therapeutic, and is backed by…

How many tools are in your physical therapist’s toolkit? Five? Ten? Fifty? Have you just been filling it up with…

The Short Version According to Dr. Ian Harris, many of today’s surgeries are no better than sham surgeries or conservative…

For The Lazy Pain is a necessary, complex, and unique experience that is different for everyone and every instance. Pain…

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