Clinical Prediction Rules (CPRs) are an interesting, complicated, and often misunderstood area of rehabilitation research. To say all CPRs are not created equal would be a significant understatement. In this most recent rehaul of the CPR Resource, I focused on not just adding to the quantity of rules included, but I spent the vast majority of…
Course Title: Orthopedic Excellence: The Spine Faculty: Chad Cook, PT, PhD, MBA, FAAOMPT and Eric Hegedus,PT, DPT, MHSc, OCS, CSCS Overview: Orthopedic Excellence: The Spine is a course series offered through the online continuing education company MedBridge Education. The series is broken into three regions (cervical, thoracic, and lumbar) and two categories (evaluation and treatment). All courses, excluding…
Course Title: Modern Pain Sciences: Manual Therapy’s Keys to Motivation, Input and Plan Date: December 7th, 2014 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Faculty: Joseph Brence, PT, DPT, COMT, FAAOMPT, DAC & Francois Prizinski, PT, DPT, OCS, COMT, FAAOMPT, DAC Throughout my didactic and clinical education as a student at the University of Pittsburgh, I was exposed to very little in terms…
Patient education and the instruction of a home exercise program (HEP) is of utmost importance to clinicians in order to obtain positive patient outcomes and to improve compliance. Recently, MedBridge Education rolled out their Patient Care Portal, which includes a HEP and Patient Education materials. I have had the opportunity to use this software for…
John Snyder, DPT 