Brain and Body Rehabilitation

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 […]

Since as far back as 2014, our profession has been migrating toward a movement system understanding. Is CRISPR a good analogy to help us adopt the same language and perspectives when we analyze and examine patients? From the APTA, “The movement system is the integration of body systems that generate and maintain movement at all […]

I receive many questions by email and through this website, and attempt to publicly field some of the most intruiguing questions here. Most of the questions come from people that have a challenging case, just attended a live or recorded version of one of my webinars, or heard about me from a colleague. A recent […]

I have received a number of supportive inquisitions about the recent trademark, officially approved on 12/28/20 by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), essentially asking, “What is Movement in the Background?” Pasted here, is one of my most recent responses: Movement in the Background is a collection of words that evoke the concept of […]

Watch for this course in April 2021 – a virtual presentation and the 7th Annual Studer lecture sponsored by Providence Medical Center   Course description: In this challenging push-the-limits course, expect to advance your capacity to help some of the most challenged patients that we work with. Patients that may seem to be destined for […]

The not-so hidden meaning in this rhetorical question is a reference to the disparate recovery that the upper extremity often experiences vs. the lower extremity, after stroke. First, recovery beyond that which is spontaneously driven be the resolution of an acute hemorrhagic or ischemic event in the brain, requires a reason or stimulus. Personally, I […]

Yes, that’s right. “The difference between 0 and 1 is greater than the difference between 1 and 3.” How can that be? Let’s see, from 0 to 1, we move 1 number or any ascribable unit…and from 1 to 3, we move 2 units. So, this statement is “false”, right? Wrong.  In most of what […]