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SCAPTA
Check out http://scapta.org/annual-conference for more information including a full list of conference sessions. Register today!
SCAPTA
Join us for the Grand Strand District Meeting on March 16. The event will feature an update on Medical and Physical Therapy Interventions for Total Joint Arthtroplasty: The Hip, Knee and Shoulder. Click here for more information.
SCAPTA
Voting links were emailed to all SCAPTA members earlier this week. Please contact southcarolina@apta.org if you are a PT or PTA member and did not receive your voting link. View the full slate of candidates HERE.
Please note that you will be required to enter your APTA member ID before casting your vote. This poll closes March 31st at midnight EST.
The opportunity to vote will be made available in three options:
- Electronically, using a voting link;
- By mailing (see instructions below); or
- At the SCAPTA Annual Conference. Ballots will be provided at the conference.
You may cast your vote only once using any one of the options above.
Mailed ballots: For those who do not have an email address on file, a ballot has been mailed. You may also request a ballot be sent to you by contacting the Chapter office at southcarolina@apta.org. Mailed ballots must be received in the SCAPTA office by March 28th to be accepted.
PT in Motion
It's no secret that large amounts of sedentary behavior, such as is associated with extensive television viewing, can have a negative effect on physical function and overall health. Now researchers in Australia have amassed 12 years' worth of data that shows how extended viewing habits can impact knee extensor strength, and the results are about what you'd expect — with one exception.
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Stroke
Walking ability poststroke is commonly assessed using gait speed categories developed by Perry. The purpose of this study was to reexamine factors that predict home and community ambulators determined from real-world walking activity data using activity monitors. The 6-minute walk test was better able to discriminate among home, limited community and full community ambulators than comfortable gait speed. Gait speed values commonly used to distinguish between home and community walkers may overestimate walking activity.
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By Noelle Talmon
 Fitness trackers from Fitbit, Garmin and other manufacturers are big business. Millions of the devices are sold each year to help people monitor their physical activities and their number of calories burned. But how effective are they in actually improving an individual's health? According to Dr. Greg Hager, an expert in computer science at Johns Hopkins University, users should be particularly aware of devices that track people’s steps and advise them to walk 10,000 steps a day, which equals about five miles.
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Oncology Nurse Advisor
Patients with advanced cancer who walk for 30 minutes three times a week experience improved quality of life, a pilot study involving patients with advanced breast, prostate, gynecologic or hematologic cancers has shown.
The researchers examined the impact of walking on quality of life and symptom severity in patients with relapsed or metastatic disease. Patients typically decrease their exercise levels during cancer treatment, and these levels remain low afterward in spite of mounting evidence indicating the significant health benefits of physical activity. General benefits of walking include improved cardiovascular health and increased energy levels.
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Physical Therapy Products
In the field of rehabilitation there has been an influx in the sheer volume of healthcare data being gathered. Yet what remains lacking is a set of standards to guide the most effective processes for collecting that data, manipulating it, analyzing it and applying it in ways that benefit the profession and its clients. As a result, most practitioners are taking a more experimental approach to working with data, and addressing the opportunities and challenges this new paradigm presents.
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Medscape
The prevalence and burden of arthritis are high and growing among U.S. adults, particularly those with heart disease, diabetes and obesity, say federal health officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
New data from the National Interview Survey show that, on average, during 2013-2015, 54.4 million adults in the United States had physician-diagnosed arthritis, according to a report published online in Vital Signs.
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