Back pain can stop you in your tracks, cause pain and numbness in your legs (sciatica) and generally ruin your day (and night). Have you ever had a back injury? If you have, you are not alone. 80% of people have a lower back (lumbar) injury at some point in...
"We’ll remember this time as the point when healthcare delivery and the patient experience changed. So, take note and remember the first time you encounter telehealth. Much like the internet, it’s going to change all of our lives." I wrote that in a blog 1-year ago. At the time, few...
Two recent articles on telehealth hit home with me. The first was in the online publication Tech Crunch and the second in the Harvard Business Review. They each address some of the challenges facing providers and patients as telehealth adoption grows. In this blog I focus on patient engagement and the...
Achilles was a great warrior, nearly invincible. He was one of the greatest warriors that ever lived, but he died from a poisonous arrow that lodged in his heel. Kobe Bryant, Klay Thompson, Kevin Durant, David Beckham, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson each ruptured their Achilles Tendon during their illustrious...
Telehealth has been one of the heroes 2020. Healthcare has come a long way in a short time. Looking back through some old notes I found this blog I wrote on telehealth in January 2020. I thought I was insightful by predicting "telehealth is about to happen." Little did I...
It happens to the best of us, you twist an ankle shooting hoops with your kids, you wake up with muscle spasms in your back from raking leaves the day before, or your shoulder's been killing you from working at your kitchen table since the start of COVID. Is Telehealth...
For a few years I've believed that telehealth would soon become an integral part of Physical Therapy. We all shop online. Even before COVID, more people were working from home. Technology is improving every day. It seemed obvious to me that healthcare was the next service to follow suit. I...
If you have Osteoarthritis (OA), you probably have enough pain sometimes that you don’t want to move at all. One thing every patient with OA should remember is that the best solution for OA is movement. Movement improves blood flow, increases mobility, and strengthens muscles. Unfortunately, many patients with OA...
