Brain and Body Rehabilitation

While we have known for decades that movement is an interaction of person-task-environment (oversimplified), we still call the control of movement, “motor control”. Why? Many motors actually move in a very predictable pattern without much variability at all. That is neither representative-of or an admirable quality for the human movement system. I will not be […]

The year of innovation, part II of III. Consider the concept of dual task (DT) dosage. How do we increase, categorize and stratify dual task testing and delivery? Most importantly, how do we ensure that recovering patients have been exposed to and rehabilitated-through – before returning to sport, work, school and life. The science of […]

The science of wellness continues to improve. Regardless of age, people need to participate in activity (may or may not be “exercises”) that will keep or improve their comprehensive fitness. The minimal amount of physical activity and the parameters of fitness have been well-cited by the World Health Organization, and American College of Sports Medicine. […]

While we may search for the perfect dosage of intensity for neuroplasticity to be expressed in terms of exertion. The two intensities are not the same. Higher levels of physical exertion can help to promote the release of BDNF, a substrate protein or fertilizer for neuroplasticity, but not always a good substitute. So intensity in […]

Highly successful people are not born highly successful. We know the opportunities that are available to persons with privilege are not equal across all soci0-economic levels. However, we also understand through motor learning, that an experience without struggle, without error, does not stimulate learning and thrive. We perceive a greater amount of success when we […]

Welcome to October 1st! Welcome to National Physical Therapy Month! The New Year and your resolutions are only 3 months away…is that good news, an opportunity, a warning? Here is one perspective. If you take and your physical activity into consideration when forming your resolutions, you have a unique opportunity at hand. Consider taking a […]

Are you ready to take your practice to the next level? Now is the time for PTs and OTs to improve their clinical acumen and become recognized as a critical component in the workup for and management of persons with Parkinson disease (PwPD) and the parkinsonisms, conditions that cause a combination of the movement abnormalities typically associated […]

Let’s get right to the point. Start now to be a healthier grandparent. Regardless of your age – regardless of your aspirations or capability to be a grandparent – the point is that your quality of life at 75 is directly impacted by the way you treat your body in every decade prior. It is […]

Active listening, motivational interviewing and a comprehensive consideration of the individual that you are working with. Are you leveraging all three of these in your rehabilitation efforts through a meaningful patient interview? Do you continue to use these, in each patient session? Great, as Crosby, Stills and Nash sang in 1988, “glad that you’ve got it made”. […]

It is now commonly-accepted that fear influences our choices for movement. We have scales in chronic pain that are used across many aspects of rehabilitation: neurologic, return to sport after ACL-R, pelvic wellness, and more. It may be an appropriate time to ask ourselves if we can intervene before fear causes us to avoid movement, when […]