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Early physical therapy may lead to better outcomes for workers with low back injuries: study

Cambridge, MA — Beginning physical therapy days, rather than weeks, after suffering a low back injury is associated with better outcomes, according to the results of a recent study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute.




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Choosing the Right Flooring for Physical Therapy Practices

To help patients successfully complete their treatment and live better lives, it's important for providers to specify an ergonomic, patient-friendly flooring solution that strikes a balance between force reduction and energy restitution.




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Marquis Who's Who Honors Peter Holman for Success in Sports and Health-Related Inventions and Physical Therapy

Mr. Peter Holman is lauded for his work as an inventor, subject matter expert, physical therapist, and certified strength and conditioning specialist




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Marquis Who's Who Honors Shamel S. Allen, CP, MPT, for Success in Physical Therapy

Shamel S. Allen, CP, MPT, is a seasoned expert in physical therapy and prosthetics with more than two decades of experience




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Personal Care Physical Therapy: A New Type of Physical Therapy Experience, In The Comfort of Your Own Home

A new way to Physical Therapy: No office wait times, insurance verifications or drive times - Personal Care Physical Therapy in South Florida delivers concierge outpatient Physical Therapy on demand, equipment and all, to your home.




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Marquis Who's Who Honors Vijay Kumar, MD, for Expertise in Physical Therapy and Entrepreneurship

Honoring Vijay Kumar, MD, is noted for his work as the founder and chief executive officer of Adapt Physical Therapy




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Marquis Who's Who Honors John T. Pion Jr., DPT, for Success in Physical Therapy and Entrepreneurship

John T. Pion Jr., DPT, celebrates success and expertise as the co-founder of Hilton Head Physical Therapy




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Marquis Who's Who Honors Michael A. Hyland, DPT, for Expertise in Physical Therapy and Parkinson's Disease

Michael A. Hyland, DPT, is lauded for treating Parkinson's patients at Hyland Physical Therapy and Wellness LLC




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Spine & Sport Physical Therapy Opens New Otay Mesa, San Diego Location

Continued growth in San Diego, California, furthers patient care and access




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Dr. Hisham M. Senan, PT, DPT, OCS, CKTP, CCI, Cert BFR, DSc(c) Celebrated for His Clinical and Educational Leadership and Contributions in Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy

Hisham M. Senan supports and guides patients in orthopedic rehabilitation therapies




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Court Says Injured Worker Can Get Additional Physical Therapy

The West Virginia Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a determination that an injured worker was entitled to additional physical therapy for her leg injury. Case: ACNR Resources Inc. v. Goff, No.




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Penn College Community Physical Therapy Clinic planned

A physical therapy clinic — staffed by students supervised by licensed professionals and offering free services to volunteer community participants in need — is planned for fall 2025 at Pennsylvania College of Technology.




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Pologruto honored by the American Physical Therapy Association

Pamela Pologruto has received the F.A. Davis Award for Outstanding Physical Therapist Assistant Educator. The American Physical Therapy Association recognized her achievement with this national award, only given to one recipient annually, at their honors and awards reception ceremony in Kansas City, Missouri.




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For Back Pain, Earlier Is Better for Physical Therapy

Title: For Back Pain, Earlier Is Better for Physical Therapy
Category: Health News
Created: 8/9/2022 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/10/2022 12:00:00 AM




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Bend FC Timbers Partner With REP Biomechanics Lab and Rebound Physical Therapy

REP Lab Director Jay Dicharry PT, will assist with FC Timber athlete development through specific strength, power and agility programs. Rebound Physical Therapy joins as "Official PT Provider to the Bend FC Timbers."




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Young Kim Celebrated for Professional Excellence in Physical Therapy

Dr. Kim has presented at conferences in USA, Canada, and Japan




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Peak Performance Physical Therapy Continues To Grow

New Mason clinic location set to open summer 2020




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Combined cognitive and physical therapy

The present invention provides method and apparatus to perform combined cognitive and motor rehabilitation on a computerized non-portable system or on single portable device. A patient can play a variety of games that require the patient to perform a variety of memory exercises which involve physical exertion. The activities of the patient are monitored with pattern analysis software which provides feedback to the patient. The feedback can include voice synthesis, video guidance, progression messages etc. Patient data obtained while the patient is performing each of the memory exercises is stored locally on a database module and then uploaded to a cloud server. A remote psychologist/psychiatrist monitors the patient by logging into the same cloud, and updating cognition exercises. The same therapist can have live chats with the patient for further interaction and coaching.




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Physical Therapy Device For Lower Limbs And Therapeutic Methods Thereof

A device and methods for bilateral or unilateral physical therapy of lower limbs are disclosed. The device comprises a curved rail mounted on a base and a pair of support members configured to accommodate a portion of a leg of a person, and to slide along the curved rail. The curved rail allows lateral movements of the lower limbs with the support members, the movements being driven by a force of the lower limbs. The methods of the invention allow physical unilateral or bilateral therapy of lower limbs of a person. The initial reinforcement of the lower limbs of a person is improved by the use of this device, which reduces the friction or the resistance caused by the device during the prescribed movements. The invention provides to patients with severe lower limb disability, a physical therapy device that is easy to use with minimum supervision by a physical therapist.




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Brooklyn Physical Therapy Clinic Executive and Three Employees Charged in Health Care Fraud Scheme

Solstice executive Dmitry Shteyman, 35, and Solstice employees Aleksey Shteyman, 41; Maxsim Shvedkin, 38; and Sara Kalantarov, 22, were each charged in an indictment unsealed today in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of New York, with conspiracy to defraud the United States, to submit and cause the submission of false claims and to pay health care kickbacks.



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Vice President of Fraudulent Physical Therapy Company Pleads Guilty to Medicare Fraud

A Miami-area resident who was an owner and vice-president of a fraudulent physical therapy company in Lakeland, Fla., pleaded guilty today for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS) announced.



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Two Officers of Fraudulent Physical Therapy Company Plead Guilty in Tampa, Fla., to Medicare Fraud

Two Miami-area residents who were officers of a fraudulent physical therapy company in Lakeland, Fla., pleaded guilty today for their roles in a scheme to defraud Medicare.



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Three Brooklyn Physical Therapy Clinic Employees Plead Guilty in a $3.4 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme

Three employees of the Solstice Wellness Center, a Brooklyn-area clinic that purported to specialize in providing physical therapy and various diagnostic tests, have pleaded guilty in connection with a $3.4 million Medicare fraud scheme.



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Owner of Fraudulent Physical Therapy Company Pleads Guilty to Medicare Fraud Scheme

A Miami-area resident and owner of a fraudulent physical therapy company in Lakeland, Fla., pleaded guilty today for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare.



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Former President of Fraudulent Florida Physical Therapy Company Sentenced to 24 Months in Prison for Medicare Fraud Scheme

The former president and administrator of a fraudulent physical therapy company in Lakeland, Fla., was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare.



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Owners of Fraudulent Lakeland, Florida, Physical Therapy Company Sentenced to 42 and 46 Months in Prison

Miami-area residents Angel Gonzalez and Jorge Zamora, who were the owners and operators of a fraudulent physical therapy company in Lakeland, Fla., were sentenced yesterday and today to 42 months in prison and 46 months in prison, respectively, for their leading roles in a scheme to defraud Medicare.



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Co-Owner of Detroit-Area Physical Therapy Company Sentenced to 48 Months for Medicare Fraud Scheme

The co-owner of a Detroit-area physical therapy company was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for her leading role in a more than $1.9 million Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).



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Physical Therapy Assistant Pleads Guilty in Connection with Detroit Medicare Fraud Scheme

Detroit-area resident Ankit Patel pleaded guilty today for his role in a $13.8 million home health care fraud scheme.



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Detroit-Area Physical Therapist, Physical Therapy Assistant and Unlicensed Doctor Convicted in $14.9 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

A federal jury in Detroit today convicted a physical therapist, physical therapy assistant and unlicensed doctor for their participation in a nearly $15 million Medicare fraud scheme.



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Former Owner of Physical Therapy Clinic Sentenced to Prison in Connection with Health Care Fraud Scheme

A Florida man who was convicted of conspiracy to commit health care fraud was sentenced to serve 27 months in prison today in federal court in Tampa, Florida



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Physical therapy better than steroids for knee OA




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Yoga, Physical Therapy Reduce Back Pain (and) Improve Sleep

Yoga and physical therapy (PT) approaches are effective in treating co-occurring sleep disturbance and back pain while reducing the need for medication,




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Individualized Physical Therapy Decreases Incontinence, Pain in Men After Prostate Surgery

Individualized pelvic physical therapy program aimed at normalizing pelvic floor function can help reduce stress urinary incontinence and pelvic pain, reports a new study.




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Effect of Physical Therapy on Pain and Function in Patients With Hip Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Interview with Kim L. Bennell, PhD, author of Effect of Physical Therapy on Pain and Function in Patients With Hip Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Clinical Trial




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A mechanized horseback riding simulator as an aid to physical therapy




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Sports Based Physical Therapy - Get in the "Game" Faster!

Sports physical therapy and an active life style are very compatible to each other. Physical therapy based on what is learned keeping professional and college sport in the game have many applications to assist you go on your active engagement in assorted athletics and active life style activities.

The intent of physical therapy is to assist you reconstruct your ability to utilize your organic structure without hurting and with the fullest scope of motion, strength and flexibleness possible. With the usage of athletics based physical therapy exerts many patients happen they can go dorsum to normal activities quicker and with fewer, if any hurt related problems.

If your physician urges physical therapy after an hurt or illness, for upper limit consequences utilize the recommended resources to their fullest.

Sports physical therapy is an advanced pattern that came about when the "normal" intends of treating athletics related hurts appeared inadequate to convey the athletic back into the game, in the lower limit amount of clip and hurting free. Many modern times when surgery was prescribed the athletic still had hurting and loss of scope of movement and lessened strength.

Something new had to be done and athletics physical therapy provided the answer. The techniques used for treatment of sport included individually planned exercising programs, sometimes electrical stimulation and possibly hot and cold packs, are among the techniques used. The overall intent is to cut down or get rid of hurting in a non-invasive way and help the organic structure to mend faster.

This attack allowed the patient to dwell an active life style while the athletics physical healer developed exercisings and techniques to promote the physical activity. There are a broad assortment of complaints that physical therapy can help with.

Many patients experience a loss of movement and stiffness after any sort of surgery, athletics related or not. Sports physical therapy assists to cut down the station surgery hurting addition your scope of movement and overall velocity the healing. The exercisings also assist you acquire back doing mundane normal things; quicker and with less pain.

If the patient is an jock and looking to restore their activities, a athletics physical healer can assist the patient use a preventive exercising programme to restrict the possibility of additional injury.

It's easy and even encouraged to compound an active life and athletics physical therapy. By disbursement your clip doing the things you love and completing normal tasks, you are helping your organic structure to mend faster and reestablishing your anterior healthy organic structure function.

Sports physical therapy Sessions take to faster healing and more than effectual treatments. There is no ground to halt doing the things you love when healing from a serious hurt or unwellness and athletics physical therapy have paved the manner with many advanced attacks to acquire you back in the "game."




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Physical Therapy - Some of the Many Benefits!

The benefits of physical therapy are undisputed. After all, the medically related pattern have been around since Ancient Greece. This word form of therapy is used in multiple ways for many important grounds all with the single planned consequence of restoring mobility and reducing pain. The overall end is for the patient to recover a proper grade of normalcy. There are respective principal grounds that person would seek out the assistance of a physical therapist, ranging from stiff musculuses to endorse pain, and even arthritis. Each of these and other similar statuses can profit greatly from physical therapy.

Perhaps one of the most popular word forms of the therapy is a hands-on massage treatment. This type of massage differs greatly from the recreational massage of co-workers and friends. The major difference between the two types of massage; this type of massage actually makes some good. A massage given by a physical healer can assist in any figure of ways. For overall health, the benefits of the professional massage can cut down emphasis by unknotting musculuses and causing the organic structure to relax. Massages will even better scope of movement and addition flexibility.

Back hurting is an increasing issue in today's society and luckily patients can derive many benefits from physical therapy supervised exercisings to beef up the dorsum and cut down the pain. Back hurting from day-to-day emphasis and overuse, or from surgical trading operations or other statuses can greatly diminish the quality of life. Physical healers under the way of a physician are to order respective treatments and processes that volition aid the patient recover normal usage of the back, improving reach, reducing pain, and reconstruct mobility.

Another benefit of physical therapy concerns joint hurting such as as arthritis. The healer will help the patient in a figure of exercisings and processes aimed at regaining the scope of movement that the joint once enjoyed. Usually, articulations are stiff owed to deficiency of usage because of the hurting that patients make not wish to endure. Therefore, the patient volition execute actions to loosen up articulations that will reconstruct motion and overall easiness any discomfort.

The other full general benefits of physical therapy can also include educating the patient on long term benefits of specific exercises, safety issues, usage of physical Pluto and even diet plans. Physical therapy makes not stop when leaving the attention and way of the medical professional but to acquire the overall positive consequences is a committedness and a life style change.

The benefits of physical therapy are countless as each patient can have aid and benefits directed specifically to their individual needs. The cardinal to have the full measurement of benefits is to be guided by the ways of the physical therapist, be diligent in performing your exercises, and you will see the desired results.