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SCAPTA
SCAPTA has several upcoming CEU opportunities! Lower Coastal District, Midlands and Upstate — you’re all coming up next. Check out the details here.
SCAPTA
APTA is making an aggressive push to get to 100,000 members, with staff leading wide ranging efforts that include phone calls, hand-written letters, targeted emails, area clinic visits, PT and PTA program visits, and more.
As part of the campaign, APTA is offering incentives for anyone who joins or renews between April 1 and May 31, including free registration to NEXT or National Student Conclave (NSC), plus entry in a drawing to win a $100 gift card (100 to be given away). Incentive details can be found on the #APTA100K Campaign landing page.
SCAPTA
To coincide with the #APTA100K Campaign, APTA is launching a “gift of membership” opportunity, targeted to students and new graduates. With graduation season fast approaching, now is the perfect time to spread the word among your members, PT and PTA programs, and other audiences. Details about providing the gift are available at this link. Anyone who gives the gift of membership will receive a “Gift of Membership” card to present to the recipient.
PT in Motion
A bill that helps to protect physical therapists and other health care providers who travel across state lines with sports teams has been reintroduced in the Senate. Earlier this year, the U.S. House of Representatives passed its version of the same bill.
Known as the Sports Medicine Licensure Clarity Act the legislation aims to provide added legal protections for sports medicine professionals when they're traveling with professional, high school, college or national sports teams by extending the provider's "home state" professional liability insurance to any other state the team may visit. Senators John Thune and Amy Klobuchar reintroduced the bill.
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By Denise A. Valenti
 A well-balanced diet is good for health, and this applies to people of any age. There are many products that are marketed to add to a deficient diet or to enhance an already good diet. Products that are claimed to help prevent or slow Alzheimer's disease are part of this market. However, a new study in JAMA Neurology indicates that not all nutritional supplements that are advocated for the treatment and prevention of Alzheimer's disease are effective.
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The Mayo Clinic via The Medical News
Mayo Clinic researchers used electrical stimulation on the spinal cord and intense physical therapy to help a man intentionally move his paralyzed legs, stand and make steplike motions for the first time in three years.
The case, the result of collaboration with UCLA researchers, appears in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Researchers say these results offer further evidence that a combination of this technology and rehabilitation may help patients with spinal cord injuries regain control over previously paralyzed movements, such as steplike actions, balance control and standing.
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Clinicient
Marketing to consumers is an important part of business — but in physical therapy it’s essential. Gone are the days you could get away without marketing your practice. Now, deductibles can be $5,000 or higher and patients have the internet to help them decided whether or not their doctor’s word is the final say in their healthcare.
So, how do you successfully and cost effectively market your practice to get patients through your doors? Follow these five steps to success.
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By Judith Villarreal
 From after-school sports to your child's daycare playground, artificial grass has quickly become the preferred material surface for schools, sports fields and recreational parks because it is low-maintenance and cost-efficient. While there may be huge monetary savings to be found in using artificial turf over real grass, one major component used to create the fields and playgrounds has some worried about the health hazards for children who spend a great deal of time on the playing surface.
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Physical Therapy Products
According to a recent study in men, long-term, weight-bearing exercises decrease sclerostin, a protein made in the bone, and increase IGF-1, a hormone associated with bone growth.
The study, conducted by Pamela Hinton, associate professor in the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology at University of Missouri-Columbia, was published recently in the journal Bone.
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Newswise
Men who attended a structured yoga class twice a week during prostate cancer radiation treatment reported less fatigue and better sexual and urinary function than those who didn’t, according to a clinical trial led by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. It is the first randomized trial to look at the effect of twice-weekly yoga on the side-effects and quality of life issues caused by prostate cancer treatment.
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