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Concentra is hiring a Clinic Therapy Director for their downtown San Antonio, Texas clinic and a PRN therapist for the Austin, Texas Market. I used to work in that Austin clinic for close to 10 years and thoroughly enjoyed it. They will pay for the Fellowship Program, and mentoring is built in. See the link below […]
Hello all, AAOMPT elections are coming up, and this is a particularly important time to let your voice be heard. The new Quality Standards are about to be implemented and it is important that the AAOMPT has a unified voice in making sure Fellowship programs in manual therapy remain relevant in the upcoming years. We […]
Hello all, On a somewhat regular basis we get requests to post job offers for Fellowship trained PT’s. I am happy to post requests from MTI alumni. This on comes from Chase Olson in San Antonio. If you are looking for a new job in the San Antonio area, give him a call. Pieter My […]
Hello all, Just as we were gearing up to implement the necessary changes to be in compliance with the new Quality Standards, ABPTRFE in its infinitive wisdom, has decided to extend the deadline of implementation of the new Quality Standards to January 1, 2020. This, of course, is a very good development. The significantly increased […]
Hello all As many of you have probably heard, the APTA/ABPTRFE have recently imposed changes to the Quality Standards for Fellowship Programs. Despite a year of diligently providing feedback, the APTA and the ABPTRFE have decided to move ahead without taking any of our input into account. The most visible change has to do with […]
Hello, The ABPTRFE has issued new quality standards for Fellowship and Residency Programs. The American Board of Physical Therapy Residency and Fellowship Education (ABPTRFE) is the credentialing agency for Fellowship and Residency Programs. Quite a few of you have already contacted me with concerns in regards to the new quality standards.Instead of answering each email […]
Hello all The AAOMPT has been working diligently the last two years to update the Manual Therapy Description of Advanced Specialty Practice (DASP). This document in essence spells out what makes a good manual therapist. They put out a survey to help revalidate this document. The DASP will influence how OMPT education is taken care […]
This blog post will discuss a poorly understood entity- the stress fracture Stress fractures are a common entity encountered across all patient demographics. The first case description of bone stress injuries was in Prussian military recruits who presented with metatarsal pain from marching—the “march fracture.” The proper definition and pathophysiology of the stress fracture today […]
In this blog post I want to discuss a viewpoint article that was published in May, 2017 JOSPT entitled “Placebo Mechanisms of Manual Therapy: A Sheep in Wolf ‘s Clothing?” Click here for the article: http://www.jospt.org/doi/abs/10.2519/jospt.2017.0604 The article in essence implies that we do not really know what makes a manual therapy treatment efficacious. The […]