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New Online Courses on Pelvic Pain and Knee Dissection from MedBridge Education

Rachael Lowe — Mon, 21 May 2012 09:45:57 +0000

Physiopedia Silver Sponsor MedBridge Education has released two new online courses for you to learn from any time, any where! Through partnerships with top clinicians MedBridge Education are able to present high quality courses, produced using their own course development process and published on a specifically developed learning management system. These are their latest offerings:

Dissection of the Knee: A Comprehensive Layered AnalysisIn this course, Dr. Robert LaPrade, a complex knee surgeon & sports medicine specialist at The Steadman Clinic in Vail and Chief Medical Research Officer of the Steadman Philippon Research Institute will take you through a review of superficial bony and soft tissue landmarks of the knee, as well as the deep anatomy of the medial and lateral aspects of the knee. He will demonstrate a deep dissection to visualize the course of the cruciate ligaments, the medial and lateral menisci, and their interactions with each other.Read more…

Introduction to Female and Male Pelvic PainThis introductory course was developed for the practitioner who does not have any prior training in pelvic rehabilitation. In covering basic concepts such as anatomy, potential pain patterns, and common presentation, the learner can improve skills of identification of the patient who has pelvic pain. The educational material also provides introductory concepts related to caring for the patient who presents with chronic pelvic pain.Read more…

New courses to look forward to in the future include the BikeFit course followed by the Pre-arthritic Hip Disease (PAHD): Medical Classification and Movement System Approach Toward Prevention and Management course. We’ll let you know as soon as they are available!

See more courses from MedBridge Education.

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Excitement Grows for Next International Meeting of Physiotherapists and Physical Therapists in Musculoskeletal and Orthopaedic Care, Manual Therapy and Private Practice.

Rachael Lowe — Mon, 21 May 2012 07:16:39 +0000

The International Private Practice Association (IPPA) has partnered with the International Federation of Orthopaedic Manipulative Physical Therapists (IFOMPT) for the upcoming 2012 Conference to be held in Quebec City, Canada from September 30^th to October 5^th, 2012. Don’t miss out, get your early bird ticket before June 4th!

This World Congress of Manual/Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy is held only once every 4 years and will be the next international gathering of physiotherapists and physical therapists in 2012. IFOMPT is the largest recognized sub-group of the World Confederation of Physical Therapists (WCPT) and after the huge success of World Physical Therapy in Amsterdam last year this will be your next opportunity to join a large international gathering from the physiotherapy and physical therapy profession. Keynote speakers including David Butler, Gray Cook, Gwendolen Jull, Karim Khan, Prof. Peter O’Sullivan, Annelies Pool, Shirley A. Sahrmann, Joy MacDermid, and Dr Stuart Gowland will join invited speakers and symposium presenters in a packed program that brings you the very latest in research and clinical practice. In addition to this, the conference itself is sandwiched between a plethora of courses from renowned international teachers including David Butler, Dianne Lee, Duncan Reid, Peter O’Sullivan and many more.

The IFOMPT Conference this year is being hosted in Québec City, Eastern Canada. Condé Nast Traveler readers have listed Québec City amongst the top 10 favorite tourist destinations around the world and first in Canada! European flavour, cobblestone streets, sidewalk cafés, museums and several other attractions are among the treasures waiting for you to discover in beautiful Québec City. Declared as a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO in 1985, Québec City is the only city in North America to have preserved its original fortifications. The province of Québec’s capital is known to be one of the safest urban districts of the world ans is a bilingual (French/English) destination.

Registration for this conference is now open. To get your early bird ticket make sure you register before June 4th! Don’t miss this exceptional opportunity to meet colleagues from all over the world who share your interests and enthusiasm for our profession. We look forward to seeing you there!

Educational Institution for Physios Expands Doctoral Program to Canada and Caribbean

Brooke McVeigh — Tue, 01 May 2012 14:26:04 +0000

Evidence In Motion (EIM) is crossing borders to elevate the role of physiotherapy on a global scale. The Evidence In Motion Institute of Health Professions (EIM) a U.S. based educational institution for physical therapists has expanded their offerings into Canada and the Caribbean. EIM provides a Transitional Doctorate of Physical Therapy in Musculoskeletal Management for physiotherapists wishing to bridge their bachelors or masters degree to the doctoral level. The program is delivered using a dynamic blend of didactic, collaborative, and clinical education experiences through online courses, weekend intensive hands-on courses, and clinical practice hours.

“This degree program is an effective way for physiotherapists to keep up with their evolving clinical responsibilities,” says EIM’s Transition DPT Program Director Julie Whitman, PT, DSc. “We’ve developed the curriculum in such a way that the students are not required to commit significant time away from their practices. They can easily balance their education, practice, and personal lives while obtaining their education from leaders in physiotherapy research, clinical practice, education, and private practice management.”

The distance learning model used by EIM, which has proven effective for American physical therapists, has been tailored to meet Canadian and Caribbean physiotherapy requirements and is uniquely flexible. Because the majority of the program is delivered online, the geographic isolation of countries in the Caribbean and many Canadian cities does not encumber the professional development of physiotherapists. EIM’s Transition DPT Program provides an opportunity for practicing professionals to improve their patient care and advance the role of physiotherapy in health care delivery in each Canadian Province and all Caribbean islands.

“Our mission has always been to elevate and expand the role of physiotherapy in the modern health care environment,” states Larry Benz, DPT, MBA, EIM founder and principle. “It’s imperative for our industry to expand post-graduate education and assert ourselves as a doctoring profession on a global scale. EIM’s multinational doctorate program is aligned with our professional responsibility to bridge the gap between the academic setting and clinical practice.”

Questions about EIM’s Transitional Doctorate of Physical Therapy in Musculoskeletal Management can be directed to TDPT@eimpt.com.

Attend a free informational webinar on Wednesday, May 2 at 7pm CT. Register at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/566355433.

Physio wins £1.7 million award to fund physical activity and dementia research

Rachael Lowe — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:32:23 +0000

Sallie Lamb, professor of rehabilitation at the University of Warwick, received the funding through the National Institute for Health Research’s (NIHR) Health Technology Programme. Her award will help to finance research into gerontology and musculoskeletal innovations – including studies into the benefits of physical activity for people living in the community with mild to moderate dementia. As an NIHR senior investigator, Professor Lamb is considered to have made an outstanding contribution in the field of patient-centred research in the NHS. ‘I feel very pleased to have received this award and I look forward to the opportunity to shape and contribute to the research agenda of the NHS, and in particular the role of physiotherapists in that activity,’ said Professor Lamb. The two-and- a-half year study is being carried out by a research team from University of Nottingham’s school of nursing, midwifery and physiotherapy.

Read about the HEALTH project

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Australian and Singapore physiotherapy associations enter landmark agreement

Rachael Lowe — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:28:53 +0000

The Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) and Singapore Physiotherapy Association (SPA) have formalised their commitment to strengthen collaboration between the two bodies and their respective physiotherapy workforces in signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the APA’s annual general meeting over the weekend. ‘Both organisations have proud histories, strong membership bases and face similar challenges in providing a broad range of services to increasingly mobile stakeholders. This landmark agreement will help both associations to develop and deliver relevant, products and services within our jurisdictions,’ said APA President Melissa Locke. The three-year MOU centers around a shared belief that physical health and wellbeing of nationals is enhanced by access to quality physiotherapy, and a broader goal to improve population health by supporting members in the provision of world-class, evidence-based clinical practice though professional development and career success. ‘A strong physiotherapy association is the key to a strong physiotherapy profession. The MOU between APA and SPA recognises that together we can do better to achieve our missions. Members, and ultimately the general public, will benefit from economies and industry clout made possible through collaboration,’ continued Ms Locke. ‘Specifically, our agreement will see: enhanced information sharing on policy and advocacy matters; APA’s product endorsement program and selected publications expanded into the Singapore market; discussion of a Specialisation framework for Singapore’s health system; and preferential major event rates offered to members of each organisation. ‘There is a long history of partnership between the physiotherapy workforce in Australia and Singapore, which started with the training of Singaporean physiotherapists in Australia as part of the Colombo Plan and continues to this day with significant movement of individuals between each country for both education and work,’ concluded Ms Locke. A quorum of members witnessed the MOU signing by Ms Locke and visiting Vice-President of SPA, Ms Goh Ming Rong, during the APA’s annual general meeting on Sunday 22 April. Attendees were also treated to a presentation on the Australian Government’s National Lead Clinicians Group by Adjunct Professor Mr Russell Stitz. APA and SPA are both members of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT), the sole international voice for physiotherapy, and belong to one of its largest and most populous geographical regions, the Asia Western Pacific region. In 2015, WCPT Congress, a quadrennial international event, will be hosted in Singapore.

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EIM Announces New And Improved Manual Physical Therapy Certification

Brooke McVeigh — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:47:46 +0000

The Evidence In Motion (EIM) Institute for Health Professions is excited to announce a new and improved Manual Physical Therapy Certification. The Certification has been updated to ensure that participants walk away from the program with a certification that provides a competitive edge in the marketplace by allowing them to treat patients with clinical reasoning and manual physical therapy techniques that are supported by the best evidence available.

“The Manual Physical Therapy Certification adds great value to the practicing physical therapist,” states Tim Flynn, PT, PhD, Director of EIM’s Manual Physical Therapy Certification Program and EIM co-founder. “Not only do physical therapists with the certification have better clinical reasoning skills, but they are also able to treat patients more appropriately with their extensive knowledge of the latest manual therapy techniques. This provides a competitive edge when interviewing for jobs, advisory positions, and higher educational programs, and advanced practice opportunities.”

Improvements to the Manual Physical Therapy Certification Program include:

Flexible elective choices
Foundational constructs on patient management and mechanisms of manual therapy
Virtual rounds and case presentations for interactive learning and peer review
Robust examination processes to ensure student mastery of material and manual interventions
A 12 month cohort setting that builds lasting professional relationships with fellow students
Constructive credit / waivers granted for select previously completed certification-level courses
Constructive credit offered for EIM Integrated Soft-Tissue Courses (Trigger Point Dry Needling & Instrumented Soft Tissue Mobilization)

The majority of the Manual Physical Therapy Certification happens wherever participants happen to be. It consists of an intensive combination of didactic, collaborative and laboratory experiences using a blend of distance learning, self-paced and faculty-directed modules, and weekend intensive on-site courses. Students learn from an all-star faculty of leaders in academia, research and practice management.

EIM’s Manual Physical Therapy Certification consists of eight graduate level courses (20 credit hours):

Evidence-based Physical Therapy Practice
Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapy Overview: Patient Management Framework
Management of Cervical and Thoracic Disorders
Management of Lumbopelvic Disorders
Management of Lower Extremity Disorders
Management of Upper Extremity Disorders
Virtual Rounds and Case Presentations
Participant chooses between the following electives: Mechanisms of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapy and Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Spinal Pain

“The Manual Physical Therapy Certification is the most cost and time effective post-professional educational step physical therapists can make if their goal is become a highly skilled, evidence-based clinician in the area of manual physical therapy,” states Flynn.
EIM offers the Manual Physical Therapy Certification to both U.S. and International physical therapists. The first cohort of the new program will launch in July 2012 and cohorts will begin every January and July following this start date. Applications are available now at EvidenceInMotion.com.

The EIM Manual Physical Therapy Certification is an attractive option for physical therapists who are not seeking the extensive commitment of a Residency or Fellowship Program. Should a participant change their mind and decide to complete a Residency program in the future, the Manual Physical Therapy Certification allows them to apply already earned credit hours towards an EIM Residency Program or to the EIM Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapy Fellowship.

About Evidence In Motion:
Evidence in Motion (EIM) is an education and consultation company whose sole reason of existence is to elevate the physical therapy profession and the role of physical therapists in healthcare delivery. A strong dedication to fostering the creation and assimilation of an evidence-based practice culture within the physical therapy profession is a cornerstone of Evidence In Motion’s mission. They have put in place evidence-based practice treatment pathways in many facilities and aims to promote the global sharing of information and ideas, thus advancing evidence-based physical therapy practice, research and education around the world. Evidence In Motion offers Continuing Education, Manual Therapy Certification, Residencies, a Fellowship Program, a Musculoskeletal Transition DPT, and an Executive Program in Private Practice Management with optional Transition DPT. For more information, please visit EvidenceInMotion.com. You can also find Evidence In Motion on Facebook and Twitter, @EIMTeam.

Click here for the entire article from EIM.

FREE clinic management software for CSP members!

Rachael Lowe — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:37:23 +0000

Did you know that the as a member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) you can sign up to use ClinicServer’s Community Edition of their clinic management software for FREE! It’s not been well promoted and it isn’t that obvious where to find out about it so we have had a quick look around and have all the information for you here.

ClinicServeris a Canadian-based company that provides clinic management software. The first version of ClinicServer was deployed in 1998, making it among the first true Internet applications for physiotherapists in the world. ClinicServer is now widely used with physiotherapists and many other healthcare professional groups to manage their clinic more efficiently. ClinicServer has teamed up with the CSP to provide their membership with a free secure cloud-based appointment diary. This free version is only available through ClinicServer’s Community Edition which has been specially designed to provide physiotherapists in the UK with the ability to increase efficiency and improve their clinic management.

This Community Edition is a secure, web-based clinic management software to manage all aspects of a clinic diary. It is not just managing time to see a patient, it is managing all things that are tied to that clinical visit including managing room bookings and client data. Once you have signed up for an account, which you can do very easily online the system is very easy to use. You can add therapists, add rooms, add clients and then make appropriate bookings for one or more appointments at a time over a variety of locations. The system is then able to send emails out to clients for example, for appointment reminders or email marketing. The data has encrypted data transmission and is stored in securely offsite, all this plus routine backups will let you rest easy that your data is safe and secure.

Coming soon is the additional service offering, PencilThat. It is a powerful self-scheduler, that enables your clients to book and manage their appointments with you from any place, at any time. PencilThat is supported by their web-based software, so that you can also work to manage your business and client appointments at anytime, from any place…even if you have multiple locations and multiple service providers. This new service is designed so you have full control of the appointments you want to have available for your patients to book on their own, on their own time. You also decide which patients you want to have access to this service by sending them an email invitation from your clinic.

If you don’t already have clinic management software this is the perfect opportunity to start using a system that is designed to simplify and store your clinic’s client data and an integrated appointment diary so you have more time to spend on important things like treating your patients and making your clinic grow! If you are looking for more capabilities from your clinica management software, such as invoicing, it is likely that this will be available from ClinicServer’s UK edition in the future.

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Win an iPad and FREE online education!

Rachael Lowe — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:00:46 +0000

Physiopredia’s mission is to provide universal access to physiotherapy knowledge, so when someone offers free online physiotherapy and physical therapy education for a whole year we will be the first to promote this opportunity. Medbridge Education, a silver Physiopedia sponsor, is offering one individual the opportunity to win a new iPad and free MedBridge online education for a year for one individual.

MedBridge Education provides online education that is specific to the physiotherapy profession. Through partnerships with the top clinicians they are able to present high quality courses. The courses are produced using their own course development process and published on MedBridge Education’s specifically developed learning management system. Unique to Medbridge each course is enhanced with 3D models to efficiently show anatomy and motion graphics to display correct manual therapy strategies and case study based assessments presented within a fun easy to use format to test your understanding from the course ideas. These online courses really are the cutting edge of online learning for the physiotherapy profession.

Visit the Medbridge page in Physiopedia

View online courses from Medbridge (and other Physiopedia partners)

Click here to enter to win an iPad and fee online education for one year!

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New low back pain guidelines from the APTA.

Rachael Lowe — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:39:06 +0000

The Orthopaedic Section of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) has an ongoing effort to create evidence-based practice guidelines for orthopaedic physical therapy management of patients with musculoskeletal impairments described in the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF). The purpose of these low back pain clinical practice guidelines, in particular, is to describe the peer-reviewed literature and make recommendations related to (1) treatment matched to low back pain subgroup responder categories, (2) treatments that have evidence to prevent recurrence of low back pain, and (3) treatments that have evidence to influence the progression from acute to chronic low back pain and disability.

Anthony Delitto, Steven Z. George, Linda R. Van Dillen, Julie M. Whitman, Gwendolyn Sowa, Paul Shekelle, Thomas R. Denninger, Joseph J. Godges. Low Back Pain: Clinical Practice Guidelines Linked to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health from the Orthopaedic Section of the American Physical Therapy Association. 2011J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2012;42(4):A1-A57.

We’ve added these to our Clinical Guidelines Resource in Physiopedia where you can see all the clinical guidelines that are available internationally for a variety of conditions. Do you know of any more that we can add to this list?

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Lend your leg for landmine survivors today.

Rachael Lowe — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:21:43 +0000

The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) is calling on people to “lend their leg” today to highlight the problems that landmines still cause around the world. Lend Your Leg is a simple campaign. Today is the UN Day for Mine Action and Mine Awareness, people all over the world will be asked to roll up their trouser legs showing solidarity with survivors of landmines and other explosive remnants of war, calling on the international community to eradicate these weapons for good.

The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) is a global network in over 90 countries that works for a world free of antipersonnel landmines and cluster munitions, where landmine and cluster munition survivors can lead fulfilling lives. The Campaign was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of its efforts to bring about the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. Since then, they have been advocating for the words of the treaty to become a reality, demonstrating on a daily basis that civil society has the power to change the world. The World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT) believes that physical therapists play a vital role in dealing with the health problems and functional limitations that are the direct consequence of armed violence and the use of landmines and other weapons of war, even in peace times. Many physical therapists have worked in areas affected by landmines and treated people with amputations or other injuries relating to landmines. Read more on the WCPT policy on “The consequences of armed violence, landmines and other weapons of war“.

So, ‘lend your leg’ today! Join us to to stand with survivors and declare with one voice NO MORE LANDMINES.

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