Free MVMT

FreeMVMT strives to:

1. Educate the general public and other healthcare providers on the power of physical therapy
2. Promote change in the healthcare industry

Provide physical therapists with resources to educate their patients
3.

06/13/2023

Iowa Governor Kim Reynold’s signs PT referral to imaging bill into law, making Iowa the first state to include all medical imaging in the PT practice act!

05/23/2023

Why do patients get (or not get) PT first?

➡️Knowledge of direct access
🧠Beliefs about their injury and treatment required
✅Positive past experience with PT (personal or in network of friends/family)

So what can you do as a PT to continue to drive the movement?

👍Continue to provide A+ care
🗣️Ask your patients to share their positive experience with others
📚Educate the public on the power of physical therapy and direct access laws in your state!

05/17/2023

Low back pain CPGs - are you up to date?

Highlights:
🏋🏼‍♀️Exercise is king! Every client should be exercising. If they’re not, you’re doing them a disservice. Not much of a consensus on type or dose (benefits from both strength if and aerobic), but the biggest thing is to just get them moving.

✋Manual therapy can and should be used to reduce pain and temporarily improve mobility to support active exercise. People who hurt less (even in the short term) move more and move better. Can include spinal mobs, soft tissue mobilization, and dry needling.

❌Do NOT use mechanical traction - very low level evidence of ambiguous efficacy.

05/09/2023

Join the Inspired Athletx/FreeMVMT team!

Are you sick of being a cog in the wheel of corporate healthcare? Do you feel like you’re unable to use your skills to their maximum potential? Do you want to help your patients optimize their health and performance rather than just bringing them back to baseline? Are you curious about the cash physical therapy world?

Consider applying if you want:
🏋🏼‍♀️To work with motivated athletes and active adults
🕛60 minute 1 on 1 treatments
🌉To bridge the gap between rehab and sport performance
💪To build your skills as a physical therapist
🤝A collaborative and team-based environment
💰To join the out of network/cash based PT world!

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05/03/2023

🔥Hot new research from BJSM 🔥

How often do healthcare providers, or even patients themselves, delay starting physical therapy for arthritic joints because “the arthritis isn’t going anywhere” or because “it’s symptom management, not curative” all with the mindset that this journey only ends in a joint replacement? All the time! But, they may be doing more harm than good.

This February 2023 study highlights how delaying physical therapy, even by as little as a month, significantly increases a person’s risk of opioid use.

Not only can physical therapy reduce pain and improve function in those with arthritic joints, it can also delay joint replacement and make recovery from joint replacement easier!

04/19/2023

More movement = less pain!

The world of chronic pain treatment is inundated with drugs, injections, passive modalities, and an overarching message of “do less.” While there is a time and a place for these treatment methods, study after study has proven that the “do less” message has little value in modern chronic pain management.

In fact, the message needs to be “do more!” More daily activity. More recreational activity. More structured exercise. Movement is not something to be feared or avoided, but instead encouraged as a safe and effective means of managing pain and optimizing function!

04/03/2023

We’ve talked about patient preference before - the often left out, third wheel of the clinical decision making triad. While evidence based medicine gets the glory, patient preference is often the make or break factor when it comes to successful clinical practice!

Patients care about what is happening to their body. More and more, they’re speaking up, asking questions, advocating for themselves, making their desires known. For those with chronic pain, effectiveness of the treatment and ability to improve performance of daily activities, safety risks, and costs heavily impact patient preferences. Treatment frequency and how quickly a treatment works were of secondary importance.

Take these factors into account when interviewing your new patient, especially if they’re on the fence about physical therapy. In the hands of a skilled provider and motivated patient, physical therapy can hit every one of these nails on the head - safe, effective, fast, and lower healthcare costs.

03/30/2023

🤦🏼‍♀️ The AAOS’s perception of elite athlete physical therapy…

I’m glad they’re “promoting” physical therapy/rehabilitation first, but good lord talk to a PT before you put out this 1998 grandma PT special.

03/29/2023

Stronger into surgery = stronger out of it!

If you could make your surgical recovery easier, wouldn’t you? Pre-surgical rehabilitation enhances post-surgical strength and reduces length of hospital stay in patients with a total knee replacement.

02/23/2023

Let’s talk hybrid DPT programs. They’re touted as being less expensive and more accessible than traditional programs. But are they on par with the academic rigor of a traditional program? Do they turn out capable entry level PTs, especially when it comes to hands on skills? And, perhaps most importantly, what does this say about the direction our profession is heading?

For the first two questions, it remains to be seen (but I doubt it). Hybrid programs are new, and many aren’t accredited yet. Those that are accredited cleverly advertise that they’re ranked such and such a number in the country…except that’s for their in person program, not the hybrid.

After years of fighting for more education, autonomous practice, more respect from the general public and our peers in healthcare, how can we intentionally cheapen and devalue our profession? Send ourselves back to the days of being a technician? Condensing critical hands on skills to a few days or weeks of in person learning? Because that’s what this is. Universities attempting to minimize the cost of a service, while being able to enroll more students, and not giving two 💩 about quality of provider they will turn out. Follow the money.

They screwed our profession once. Let’s not allow them to do it again.

02/21/2023

Therabands get a bad reputation, but like (almost) every tool and method, they have their place in skilled physical therapy practice.

For frail elderly adults, resistance band training is an
💪Effective
✅Safe
👍Practical
💰Cost-effective
😄Approachable
form of resistance training AND it’s been proven to help with both depression and frailty!

02/14/2023

Physical therapy is key to battling the opioid epidemic!

Many patients fear becoming addicted to opioids, especially following a major surgery. Physical therapy has been proven time and time again, across many body regions and surgery types, to reduce the need for post-op narcotic medication. Even better, the “side effects” associated with physical therapy include improved mobility, general function, and strength!

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