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| MUSC student elected to serve on National Student Assembly Board of Directors
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James Newman, SPT, Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, will continue to serve on the 2018-2019 APTA Student Assembly Board of Directors as Nominating Committee Chairman. He was elected at the National Student Conclave last year to serve a 2-year position as Nominating Committee Chair-Elect and Chair. Congratulations LJ, and thanks for your service!
APTA's Combined Sections Meeting (CSM) will be held on January 23-26, 2019 in Washington, DC. Find housing and travel information here.
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Journal of American Geriatrics Society
To examine the separate and joint association between physical activity and frailty and long‐term all‐cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality in older adults.
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The Lancet
Understanding potential trajectories in health and drivers of health is crucial to guiding long-term investments and policy implementation. Past work on forecasting has provided an incomplete landscape of future health scenarios, highlighting a need for a more robust modelling platform from which policy options and potential health trajectories can be assessed. This study provides a novel approach to modelling life expectancy, all-cause mortality and cause of death forecasts —and alternative future scenarios—for 250 causes of death from 2016 to 2040 in 195 countries and territories.
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Fierce Healthcare
Physical therapy is a crucial part of recovery after orthopedic surgery, and a new study suggests that patients may do just as well meeting with a virtual therapist.
Researchers at Duke Clinical Research Institute piloted a digital physical therapist tool with 143 patients who underwent total knee replacement at four different providers. A control group of 144 patients were prescribed traditional physical therapy.
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Rheumatology Advisor
Patients with degenerative meniscal tears and osteoarthritis (OA)-related changes in the knee usually experience pain relief over 5 years regardless of whether they receive physical therapy or arthroscopic partial menisectomy, according to data presented at the 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting, held October 19-24, in Chicago, Illinois.
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PT in Motion
The evidence base for physical therapy is growing stronger by the day, and patients, payers, and other stakeholders are taking notice. The next step: making the all-important connection between research evidence and real-world practice.
The 2019 APTA Combined Sections Meeting in downtown Washington, DC, has no shortage of sessions focused on how physical therapists (PTs) and physical therapist assistants (PTAs) can bring that evidence into practice.
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Hartford Courant
An Avon physical therapist is giving her business a new approach by focusing on rehabilitating athletes.
From casual runners to those taking on intense workouts like CrossFit, Cindy Langer just wants people who stopped exercising because of an injury to get back out there.
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WTOP-TV
Slapping and prodding might not be what first comes to mind when considering treatments for chronic pain, but a local physical therapist is demonstrating his unique technique to the public this weekend.
Physical therapist and acupuncturist Andrew Bloch is hosting a “Bloch the Pain” event at Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, Maryland, to benefit veteran charities.
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Tallahassee Democrat
Physical therapists celebrate small wins. It may be the first quiver of a quadriceps muscle starting to engage after someone has had a stroke, or the first, difficult steps one takes after an injury to the spinal cord.
These petite gains that one sees day to day eventually build into huge, tangible, functional improvements.
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