April 2008

Features

• Knocking on Doors: Home Health

  For home health physical therapists, the daily commute is never the same. And that’s just the way they like it.

• PT Practice Settings: Yoga

  Physical therapists who have incorporated yoga into their practices discuss how and why they did it. They also explain how other PTs can benefit from knowledge of yoga, and how it may help their patients and clients.

• Fasten Your Seat Belts: Advice on Bracing for the Economy Ahead

  With stock market fluctuations, rising unemployment, the collapse of the housing subprime market, and other indicators, it appears as if the US economy, too, may be in for a bumpy ride. What steps might PTs and PTAs consider to thrive in the months and years ahead? We asked some PTs their advice. Here’s what they said.

• CSM 2008: Highlights

  View highlights from the 2008 Combined Section's Meeting held February 6-9, in Nashville, TN.

Columns and Departments

• Career Coach: When “It” Happens

  Then what?

• Ethics in Action: Ethical Issues and Students: Case Two

  It's not as simple as ABC.

• Government Affairs: Share the Facts About Medicare Direct Access

  It's best for patients and the nation's health care tab. Let your lawmakers know.

• Inside PT: Sharing Advice and Experience

  The article explodes the notion that yoga involves “slender women dressed in spandex twisting themselves into pretzels, or rooms full of people chanting and burning incense.” Instead, physical therapists (PTs) are using aspects of yoga to help patients ranging from young to old, and with a wide range of conditions. Several of the PTs began incorporating yoga into their practices after having experienced physical problems which were helped by yoga. Seeing the effects firsthand, they decided to share the benefits with their patients and clients.

• PTA Viewpoint: Sporting Dual Credentials

  A PTA "ups her game."

• This Is Why: School of Hard Knocks

  The professional gains of personal pain.