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Clinical Corner
Issue 5
May 2015
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4,5
Evidence of Team
work
Course Review
10
GEMS
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Announcements:
MedBridge novice
Knowledge Track is due
May 15, 2015
Rehabilitation and Performance Enhancement
of the Athletic
Knee seminar is May 9,
2015
Maitland seminars sponsored course coming
soon!
David Skudin
We can transform an
ordinary moment into
an extraordinary one
for our patients and
deliver an exceptional
patient experience utilizing these 4 ingredients.
1. Calling
The way you perceive
your work has a major
impact on whether you
'bother' to exceed expectations or not. We
relate to our work as a
"job", a means to pay
the bills as a "career",
aspiring for promotions, job titles, etc., or
as a "calling", one's
personal mission and
life purpose. Calling is
the first key ingredient
for exceeding others'
expectations.
Empathy enables us to
take off our own eyeglasses and put on
those of the patients
and families we are
called to serve so as to
see through their eyes.
When we do so, changing I or You to
We, we can better
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attend school.
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9:30pm: NO INJURIES!!!!!
-Justin is almost done for the
day, he returns to the Athletic
Training Room to straighten up
from pre-game/practice treatment. Finally, he heads home
to eat a home cooked meal that
was prepared by his loving girlfriend (that is way out of his
league) and winds down to
some country music and Modern Family.
Robert Shapiro
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MedBridge Facts:
Professional Physical Therapy clinicians earned 633 C.E.U's and completed 300 courses this
year to date thru MedBridge.
Top 5 clinics in completed courses are :
1. Columbus Circle (32),
2. Whitestone, (28)
3. West Side (19)
4. Roslyn (18)
5. White Plains (17)
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grade spondylolisthesis.
ACUTENESS
TECHNIQUE
Pain, no resistance
None
Constant pain
Hyper-acute (chemical)
RICE
Pain w resistance
Sub-acute
Non-acute
Grade 3,4
Resistance no pain
Stiff (mechanical)
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Study Methods:
9 healthy volunteers from a local
university were recruited.
The participants were instructed
in the correct technique to perform the Monster and Sumo
walks. They were also instructed
to maintain an abdominal brace
and to move in a slow controlled
fashion.
EMG electrodes were placed on
the rectus abdominis, external
obliques, internal obliques, upper
and lower erector spinae, latissimus dorsi, gluteus medium, gluteus maximus, TFL and biceps
femoris.
Three band placements were
used; one at the knee (at tibial
tuberosity), one at the ankle
(lateral malleolus) and the last
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Quiz answers:
1. axillary nerve, injured approx. 31% of the time with anterior GH dislocation
2. 75% accurate with confirmation during surgery.
3. Its function may be to tighten the anterior capsule of the hip to increase femoral stability, it a muscle that is
used as a landmark during hip surgery in order to expose the anteromedial hip capsule and the psoas tendon
interval
4. 66.7
5. 40-44 mm
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