Will you ever steal your patient's meds?

I am so disappointed to hear that someone in Utah did this and yet he is a physical therapist. Sadly the accused has to spend 5 years in prison.

Just read here

Which is Better A Machine or a Human Therapist

We all know the answer... but MIT has a new field called robotic therapy which has great and promising results to CVA patients.

Victims of a stroke are generally weeks, months, even years in physical therapy. Even though many attempts are made to return mobility to them, most stroke victims make no real visible improvements in mobility. Robotic therapists, however, are changing that. The advantage robotic therapy has over human therapy is constancy. It's very difficult for a human therapist to take the time necessary to make true strides in improving a patient's mobility. Robots, however, never tire, slow, or change pace-- of course, the repetitive motions needed in order to properly work the affected parts of body of the stroke victim don't affect a machine. In addition, robotic therapists generally have bio-feedback mechanisms. These mechanisms help to increase improvement in the affected parts of the body.

Some robotic therapists are even designed to act as both coach and therapist, using jokes, humor, and encouragement to help patients get though the long and tiring process of physical therapy.

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Nintendo Wii in your therapy Program?

This is really thinking outside the box. Would anyone use a video game console to treat their patients?

Well, welcome to the new age. Web 2.0 and Globalization 2.0 is really in effect. A Physical Therapy program of a stroke patient is assisted with the latest rehab machine... the Nintendo Wii and a tennis game program. Complete story

Another Physical Therapist Arrested

I am very sad that some Physical Therapist do these kinds of activities to their patients. In Floridatoday.com, a therapist was accused of battery and sexual assault on a patient who sustained some neck and back injuries. Read here for the full news

Call US Employers Free - Believe It!!!

Want to lessen your PT expenses? I remember way back 1998, I was using Dial Pad, a free VOIP service. Yahoo purchased Dial Pad and that was the birth of Yahoo Voice. Last year I was using Skype for calling and surfing US employers in Advance for PT. And the call is about 2 cents a minute from Manila until I found out that Yahoo Voice is cheaper (1 US cent or 50 Philippine Centavos per minute). Best of the news, calling US and Canada toll free numbers is free both with Skype and Yahoo Voice.

The Skype software is free just google it. Yahoo Voice on the other hand is accessed through the latest version of Yahoo Messenger which means its also free! So there you go. Start surfing for employers. Visit Advance for PT for a huge list. Just google everything since everything is provided by that great search engine.

BTW, Please visit the other site I have created. Its called the Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Community. It connects patients and therapist...

Sorry for more than a month without any updates. I just came from a very long vacation. See you!