Who Are We?
My early years as a physical therapist were marked by a lot of friction. So much friction that I started to question whether or not I even knew what physical therapy was. I guess...
Category: Professional Development
A Brave New Profession
I’ve been in a little bit of a dilemma this past week. A couple years ago I used to post blogs regularly and have heard from many people how much they would like for...
Flush Your Stool Down The Funnel
Due to heavy referencing, this post has been rewritten and posted for formal publication here: https://doi.org/10.31236/osf.io/kr6aq Ok. I’m just now realizing that I didn’t think that title all the way through. Anyway, evidence based...
The Ethics of Healthcare Advertising
Many physical therapists are frustrated right now. They feel that at one end, the medical establishment is referring less, criticizing the profession for lacking efficacy and having only “low-value” effectiveness. From the other side, we...
Changing Beliefs
Many people in the skeptic community are often frustrated when, after they have laid out so many sound arguments based on clear reasoning, they still can’t seem to change what someone believes. Once you...
Challenging Who You Are
“People learn from people they love and remember the things that arouse emotion.” – Plato Who are you? How do you define yourself? What do you think makes you interesting? What about you gets...
APTA Combined Sections Meeting 2016 Review
You should have been there. Sorry that you’re lame…
Practice Template
One of the great things about the modern PT student is their level of education. Current programs, with the occasional unfortunate exception, do a pretty good job giving a proper foundation of the scientific...
Doesn’t the Emperor have some nice new clothes?
In The Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen, the Emperor hires two weavers to make him a new suit of clothing. The weavers provide no actual clothes but swindle the Emperor by telling him that the “fabric” is...
Staying Current
Hands down the most common question I field is this: How does one stay current on the research? The answer is easy. Read everything that has ever been published from cover to cover, analyzing the...