I have been very excited about this interview for quite some time with Dr. Mary Frances Roebuck PT, DPT. Mary Frances is a PT in New York City and works with dancers! She is also my former colleague from South College DPT school. She was gracious enough to provide pictures from classes she teaches as…
When I started this current home health assignment, my friend Kristen told me to ask about if the company provides a home health kit. This is a GREAT question to ask during interviews as well as if they have recommendations for what to pack in the kit. My company told me they were planning on…
This month, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Kayla Calhoun, PT, DPT, CSCS (dr.kayla.dpt on instagram) Dr. Kayla is a PT (obviously) and a figuring skating coach. I was very excited for this interview because I know nothing about figures skating but it is such a phenomenal sport to watch, and figure skating is…
Now that I have been working my first home health assignment for a whopping 1.5 months, I’m basically a pro. Totally kidding, however, I have learned how to prepare for potential HH interviews! Let’s start with “why home health?” Listen, literally 4 months ago I was telling my recruiter “any setting other than home health.”…
I was really wanting to dive further into common pelvic health issues that are either not talked about enough (i.e. pain with sex), due to embarrassment or the topic being considered “taboo”, or issue that are so common they are typically normalized when they shouldn’t be (i.e. incontinence). I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr.…
For this month’s segment, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Joshua Hall, an animal PT from Salt Lake City, Utah. That’s right, ANIMAL PHYSICAL THERAPY (@saltlakeanimalphysicaltherapy) This was a trick interview for me because it was so outside my realm. What do I ask to give readers a deeper look at the benefits of…
For this month’s “What the Health” segment, I had the pleasure of interviewing dual-board certified Physical Therapist, Dr. Alex Hill PT, DPT, CLT. On her instagram (@oncopelvicpt) you will see that Dr. Hill addresses all thing pelvic health, oncology, and lymphedema! A little about Dr. Alex Hill’s educational background: “I graduated from the University of…
One thing I love about the field of physical therapy is that there are so many areas one can focus on and specialize in. I chose travel therapy because I wasn’t sure what setting I wanted to be in, but I didn’t even think of all the areas I could potentially specialize in as well!…
One of the negatives to travel is long distance relationships. Don’t listen to the haters who say they never work out. This doesn’t exclusively refer to just romantic relationships either. When you travel, you move from family, friends, and yes your partner if you have one. Sometimes this can take a toll on you being…
If you follow me on social media, you know that I just got out of quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19 and wanted to share my experience with this virus. My symptoms were thankfully mild for the most part, but still present. I get tested twice a week with a PCR so on Mondays and…
As a traveler, I always have anxiety about what to pack for my next assignment. What will I need? What stores are near me/what will my housing have available for me? This anxiety is peak for your first assignment, because you have no idea what to expect or how to prepare! Here I have listed…
I never thought I would become so passionate about the legislative side of physical therapy, but here we are. I even did an interview with Dr. Mercedes Aguirre, PT, DPT (@theptadvocate) on the issue. This concept seems so logical and simple to execute on a national level in order to make licensing for PTs and…
Moreso the Covid unit. Even the covid unit isn’t full of strictly covid patients either. Confused yet? Well, I promise you will be by the end of this post. Let me start by saying that the rules/protocols were changing everyday, and they are still changing now. So something I say now, could easily be different…
My biggest concern going into travel was housing. Planning stresses me out and does NOT come naturally to me, unlike my mother. Also, making decisions on housing just STRESSES me out. When I’m planning a trip, I look at several options to compare prices, aesthetic/comfort, area, past reviews, etc. This obviously isn’t a bad thing,…
Because everyone aspires to work in a skilled nursing facility right? I get it, and if you have read any of my other posts, you would know the last place I wanted to work was a SNF. However, in the current market after PDPM changes (NOT the COVID market), SNFs became a more popular setting…
With July boards coming up, I can’t help but think back to my own experience with preparing for boards, and the mental breakdowns I inevitably suffered along the way. I graduated in late June and sat for boards late July. Of course during the last quarter of school we took practice boards, and I bought…
Read more NPTE: What I did to prepare, and some resources I used
Today I cried over a patient. Today was a tough day. Today, I lost the battle in the ongoing war of insurance vs therapists (and other healthcare professionals) that ended up negatively impacting patients. Of course this could be only obvious to myself and other therapists as I am sure both patients are excited to…
Some of us are still stuck at home quarantining, hesitant to return to the gym right away (totally understandable), or just looking for new exercises. Following PT accounts help give us ideas for exercises to give our patients down the road, or even use for ourselves at home or at the gym. I know, especially…
It’s my last day, my car is all packed up and I am so ready GTFO. I’m halfway to the facility when I hear a *ping* , my tire pressure light suddenly comes on, and I can feel my car veering. I got a freaking flat tire in the middle of nowhere, Missouri on a…
Missouri, where do I even start other than to say it’s just another way to spell “misery” *insert punchline drum effect*. I was placed in 3 towns in what they call the “boot heel” of Missouri and each town had a population of roughly 1,000 people. I stayed in 2 air bnb’s while I was…
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