PT Pro Talk

💭 “ One of the things we do in the military is train people to be better leaders. We build leaders.” - Dr. Jason Silvernail 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Jason Silvernail DPT, DSc. Jason earned his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from the University of Scranton, and his Doctor of Science degree from Baylor University. He is board-certified in Orthopedic Physical Therapy and is a Certified Strength and...

💭 “ If a state neither explicitly allows nor explicitly prohibits imaging referral, and they are in fact, silent, the ability to talk about it gets even more restricted .” - Dr. Lance Mabry 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Lance M. Mabry, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT. Lance is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at High Point University in North Carolina where he teaches diagnostic imaging...

💭 “ Primary care means you are taking that whole health perspective. All systems, not just orthopedic musculoskeletal. You're taking everything into consideration when you are evaluating and managing these patients . ” - Dr. Katie O'Bright 👉🏻 Our guest is Katie O'Bright, PT, DPT.  Dr. O’Bright is a board-certified orthopedic Doctor of Physical Therapy, who graduated from Temple Univ...

💭 “ If I'm going to be looking at the back, one of the first things I like to do is a myotome exam. I find myotomes to be the most sensitive.” - Dr. Nick Rainey 👉🏻 Our guest is Nick Rainey, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, CCTT. Nick Rainey is board certified in orthopaedic physical therapy and a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic and Manual Physical Therapists. He has also earned the cred...

💭 “ The military service was really nice because it allowed physical therapists to act as musculoskeletal gatekeepers.” - Dr. Troy McGill. 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Troy E. McGill, PT, PhD., SCS, Dip MDT. Troy is the Director of Therapy Services for Orthopedic Physicians Alaska.  He is a retired USAF Lt Col, who completed his Masters's in Physical Therapy from Wichita State University and his Ph....

💭 “ When inflammation is dominating the condition, we are going to set up the tissue with an environment for healing and recovery.’’ - Kristi Maguire 👉🏻 Our guest is Kristi Maguire, PT, OCS, Dip. MDT. Kristi graduated from Bowling Green State University and the Medical College of Ohio with a BS in Physical Therapy in 1997. She began her journey towards MDT Certification in 2000 and became Certi...

💭 “ We are now doing a cervical intervention and demonstrating desensitization in the trigeminocervical complex. It is widely accepted that sensitization of the brain stem, the trigeminocervical complex, is the underlying disorder and is crucial in migraine, cluster headache, and tension headache.” - Dr. Dean Watson. 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Dean Watson, PT, MS, Ph. D. Dean graduated in 1976 with Di...

💭 “ You must first be able to decrease the nociceptive information to the trigemino-cervical complex and then to the upper central nervous system region.” - Dr. Matteo Castaldo 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Matteo Castaldo, PT, MSc, Ph. D. Matteo, is a physical therapist, researcher, and educator, focusing on primary headaches and chronic pain. After graduating Physical Therapist in 2007, he took differe...

💭 “Aerobic exercise is good in some conditions that present with neuropathic pain.” - Dr. Eva Sierra-Silvestre 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Eva Sierra-Silvestre PT, PhD. Eva is a postdoctoral researcher in the Neuromusculoskeletal Health and Science Lab supervised by A/Prof Annina Schmid. She holds a dual Ph. D. from Griffith University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2022). Previously, she worked as...

💭 “Our growth has always been very strategic, based on relationships, whether they are internal or external.” - Kelly Ziegler 👉🏻 Our guest is Kelly Ziegler, MS, CSCS. Kelly has been with STAR Physical Therapy since its inception in 1997 as a founding partner. A graduate of the University of Tennessee with a Master's Degree in Exercise Physiology, his emphasis with STAR has been with industr...

💭 “It is an overuse condition. Progressive loading is the most important treatment to restore the functionality of the tendon. However, unless we address the factors that caused the overload in the first place when they go back to the sport, there is a high chance of recurrence.” - Dr. Rodrigo Scattone Silva 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Rodrigo Scattone Silva, PT, Ph. D. Rodrigo is specialized in Sports...

💭 “We have evidence in the 2021 lumbar clinical practice guidelines that MDT is an effective system in managing chronic low back pain.” - Dr. Ron Schenck 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Ron Schenk PT, PhD, DPT, OCS, Dip MDT, FAAOMPT. Ron Schenk is a Clinical Professor and serves as the musculoskeletal track coordinator in the Doctor of Physical Therapy program at Tufts University.  He earned his bachelor&#...

💭 “Education by itself is not powerful to change behavior. It is PNE+ something else. And in therapy is movement. ” - Dr. Adriaan Louw 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Adriaan Louw PT, Ph. D. Adriaan earned his undergraduate, master’s degree, and PhD in physiotherapy from the University of Stellenbosch in Cape Town, South Africa. He is an adjunct faculty member at St. Ambrose University and the University o...

💭 “ Publishing companies' profit margins are over 36%, which is a greater profit margin than Apple, Google, and Amazon. They make somewhere between $100 billion to $200 billion a year in profits. I don't think they will change their model.” - Dr. Chad Cook 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Chad E. Cook PT, PhD, MBA, FAPTA. Dr. Cook is a clinical researcher, physical therapist, and professional advoca...

💭 “ All PTs are cardiopulmonary PTs. All patients have a heart and lungs. We can’t ignore what is happening in someone’s cardiopulmonary system. ” - Dr. Suzanne Greenwalt 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Suzanne Greenwalt PT, DPT, CCS, GCS. Suzanne is a physical therapist with over 20 years of practice in acute care, skilled nursing facilities, and rehabilitation. She is passionate about working with the ge...

💭 “Practice stability in daily living to improve agility at play and enhance mobility for life.” - Louis Stack. 👉🏻 Our guest is Louis J. Stack a renowned athlete, entrepreneur, the founder, and the president of Fitter International Inc. a brand that has been ‘Leading the World to Better Balance’ since 1985. He started his career as a member of the Canadian National Speed Skiing Team from 1991 t...

💭 “If you had someone with achilles tendinopathy you would want to start early on calf raises but you would not give that exercise to someone with peritendinitis because that is their provocative load. ” - Dr. Ebonie Rio. 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Ebonie Rio, PT, Ph. D. Ebonie is a Sports Physiotherapist and the Senior Clinical Research Fellow at The Australian Ballet. She also works at the Victorian...

💭 “There is no core muscle you can strengthen to such a degree that will keep your spine in the S curvature. People strengthen their core but yet they slouch” - Dr. Yoav Suprun. 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Yoav Suprun, DPT, OCS, Dip. MDT, CSCS. Dr. Yoav is a TEDx speaker and has been practicing physical therapy since 2003 after graduating from NYU. He is a senior faculty member at the McKenzie Institut...

💭 “The diploma program helped me get to the root of the matter quickly and with experience you get better at it. You can be really busy and give the patients what they need.” - Dr. Dana Greene 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Dana T. Greene, PT, OCS, Dip. MDT. Dana received his BS in Physical Therapy from The State University of New York at Buffalo in 1986. He became a Diplomaed in Mechanical Diagnosis and...

💭 “We would expect that immediately after the isometrics there was at least a drop by half of their pain.” - Jill Cook 👉🏻 Our guest is Professor Jill Cook, PT, Ph. D.  She is an Emeritus Professor in musculoskeletal health at the La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre at La Trobe University in Melbourne Australia. Jill’s research areas include sports medicine and tendon injury. Af...

💭 “When the afference is affected, it can affect head and eye movement control and posture stability because the brain is not getting all the information correctly.” - Dr. Julia Treleaven 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Julia Treleaven Ph. D. BPhty. Julia is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Queensland. She has been researching whiplash and neck pain since 2000 and in 2004 completed her...

👉Here is the link for the quick survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdzFmypv6QRZaRz7bnwA7Tq4aPwUSnKtGIdRVvDw1c6n3CmQg/viewform 💭 “You can have all the right biomechanical diagnoses, exercises, posture correction… but if the patient does not have the capacity to follow up on that, then you are getting nowhere.” - Charlotte Krog 👉🏻 Our guest is Charlotte Krog, PT. Dip. MDT, Speciali...

💭 “If you have something as highly prevalent as this, even in the chronic population, that has the potential for such a good prognosis and can guide your management strategies, you would be foolish to ignore it.” - Dr. Stephen May 👉🏻 Our guest is Stephen May, MA, FCSP, Dip MDT, MSc, Ph. D. Stephen May trained as a physiotherapist in Leeds, UK, and graduated in 1990; he then worked in the NHS, U...

💭 “I use cupping for local tissue effect, try to improve viscoelasticity, and fluid dynamics, build rapport, and improve confidence and their ability to move.”. - Dr. Christopher DaPrato 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Christopher DaPrato, DPT, SCS, CSCS, MFDc. Dr. DaPrato obtained his Master’s degree in physical therapy from CSULB and his clinical doctorate in physical therapy from Temple University. DaPr...

💭 “People with neck pain have an imbalance between the layers of the muscles. The deep muscles get weaker first ”. - Gwendolen Jull 👉🏻 Our guest is Gwendolen Jull AO, MPhty, Ph. D., FACP.  Gwen Jull is an Emeritus Professor in Physiotherapy at The University of Queensland, Australia. She is a specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapist and a Fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapi...