PT Pro Talk

💭 “MDT has great potential to be used as a biopsychosocial assessment and management tool”. - Thanos Kontos 👉🏻 Our guest is Thanos Kontos PT, MSc (Pain), Dip MDT.  Thanos graduated as a physiotherapist in 2012, in Greece. He completed the Diploma in Mechanical Diagnosis & Therapy (Dip MDT), in 2019 and started his master's degree in pain sciences, at the University of Athens in Greece....

💭 ```The evidence says that therapeutic touch has some effect if it is part of a multi-modal approach to most conditions MSK-wise, but it does not matter how you do that``. - Dr. Roger Kerry 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Roger Kerry, PT, MSc, PhD. Qualified as a Physiotherapist at Pinderfields School of Physiotherapy, Leeds University (1996). Gained MSc in Manipulative Physiotherapy at Coventry Universit...

💭 ``What creates the best patient experience is to clearly communicate, and that means from the front office to the therapist, anybody interacting with the patient, the clearer the communication the better``. - Dr. Heidi Jannenga 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Heidi Jannenga, PT, DPT, ATC. Heidi is the co-founder and Chief Clinical Officer of WebPT , and advocates for the rehab therapy profession on a nat...

💭 ``Strengthening is critical in life, slow deliberate, good form, end range movement to failure or muscular fatigue, 10 to 15 repetitions, and then rest, rest is the key``. - Dr. Thomas Dreisinger 👉🏻Our guest is Thomas Dreisinger, Ph. D. Dr. Dreisinger has a Ph. D. from the University of Missouri. In the late 1980s, he began clinical work in the assessment, management, and treatment of patient...

💭 ``In the mobilization with movement concept, it would be applying different forces across the tissues of the body, to see if we can eliminate or immediately change those comparable signs``. - Dr. Eric Dinkins 👉🏻Our guest is Eric M. Dinkins, PT, MSPT, DPT, OCS,  Cert. MT, CMP, MCTA, CDN.  Eric is a graduate from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and has been practicin...

💭 “Often, 60 to 70% of my patients that are coming in for dizziness, I am treating them as cervicogenic dizziness which I would say is a cervical derangement.” - Bridget Scholljegerdes 👉🏻Our guest is Bridget Scholljegerdes, PT, Cert. MDT. Bridget is the clinical director of Fyzical Therapy and Balance Center in Las Cruces, NM.  Bridget graduated as a physical therapist from the University...

💭 “``For the majority, the pain level did not go down that much, but the negative impact that has on their lives decreased significantly`` - Simon Simonsen 👉🏻Our guest is Simon Simonsen, PT, Dip. MDT and Owner of Vejle Back Clinic. Simon graduated as a Physiotherapist in 1997, in Denmark. His main interest is in Mechanical Diagnosis & Therapy. He completed his Diploma in MDT in 20...

💭 “It looks so much like spine. It would have been easy with him to stay with spine for even longer and not take that 5-10 min to look at his shoulder. And then, there is the opposite, where people leave the spine too quickly and miss not fully clearing the spine. There is a grey area that is difficult for even experienced clinicians to manage at times.`` - Audrey Long 👉🏻Our guest is Audrey Lon...

💭 “Some of the most well-known researchers in spasticity right now have come to conclude that peripheral mechanisms may be mediating the actual symptoms.`` - Annie O’Connor 👉🏻Our guest is Annie O’Connor, PT, OCS, Cert. MDT. She is the Founder and CEO of World of Hurt, LLC a dedicated consulting, teaching, telehealth, and research company for the application of the Pain Mechanism Classification...

💭 “Most of the time, the real estate you purchased is now worth more than the actual business you have built over a 10-15 year period. Rather than just selling your practice, you sell your practice and the real estate and you have made more money. `` - Winston Parks 👉🏻Our guest is Winston Warren Parks. Winston received his undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville where...

💭 “ Increase the overall survivorship of these kids instead of just focusing on their survival, it’s not just about they are still here but what is the quality of their being here.`` - Dr. Amanda Gentz Curry 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Amanda Gentz Curry, PT, DPT. Dr. Curry earned her doctorate in physical therapy from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in 2011 and has worked in the acut...

💭 “I told a lot more people than I thought I would ever tell to stay in bed, you know normally our role is to get people out of bed, get them moving, and just get them back to it, but for some of these folks mean rolling over was desaturating folks into the fifties and sixties and so it was a struggle just to get them back to 80s and 90s with their oxygen.” - Dr. Kathleen Antares   👉🏻 Our...

💭 “GOATA is mechanically changing how we move. When you start moving the wrong way, we literary tear our bodies up over time . ” - Lee Poston 👉🏻 Our guest is Lee Poston PT, Dip. MDT, C.S.C.S, Practicing GOATA Coach and Co-owner of Therapeutic Associates of Maui. Lee has been a PT for 28 years. He has worked in acute care, and sports medicine clinics, and was a traveling PT for about 3 years. He...

💭 ”We can't fix people, elective surgery is not fixing people, it is most likely very expensive placebo procedures.” - Jeremy Lewis 👉🏻 Our guest is Jeremy Lewis, Ph. D., FCSP, a consultant physiotherapist, professor of musculoskeletal research (University of Limerick, Ireland, and Qatar University, Qatar), sonographer, and independent prescriber. He was born in New Zealand and trained in Austra...

💭 ”She no longer fits the clinical prediction rule for hip OA after just forty repetitions of hip extension.” - Dr. Lindsay Carlton 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Lindsay Carlton, ATC, DPT, Dip. MDT. Lindsay graduated from Sage College with her Doctor of Physical Therapy in 2015 after completing her B.S. in Athletic Training and B.A. in Health Sciences in 2012 at Castleton State University. She has been a...

💭 ”All four of the patients did have a pathoanatomical diagnosis, but all of them were actually mechanical derangements that did not match their medical diagnosis.” - Dr. Lindsay Carlton 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Lindsay Carlton, ATC, DPT, Dip. MDT. Lindsay graduated from Sage College with her Doctor of Physical Therapy in 2015 after completing her B.S. in Athletic Training and B.A in Health Sciences...

💭 ” After the patient was sustained (sustained midrange flexion in supine), all of a sudden he started to respond well to flexion in supine. ” - Dr. Brian Greer 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Brian Greer, PT, DPT, Dip MDT. Brian Greer is a McKenzie Diplomat practicing in Glastonbury, Connecticut. He participated in McKenzie Parts A and B during his clinical rotation at Maccio Physical Therapy in Troy, NY,...

💭 ”Let's try to mimic the Mill`s manipultion through repetitive movement, so we flexed his wrist into full flexion, stabilized it on the table, had it go into full pronation and then extended into end range extension while was fixated it . ” - Dr. Joseph R. Maccio 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Joseph R. Maccio DPT, Dip. MDT. Dr. Maccio is published in the application of MDT in the wrist, hip osteoarthrit...

💭 ”Anyone that had excessive mechanical stress of extension, it was a 75% likelihood that some form of flexion was going to help them. ” - Dr. Joseph R. Maccio 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Joseph R. Maccio DPT, Dip. MDT. Dr. Maccio has published in the application of MDT in the wrist, hip osteoarthritis, ankle, after failed anterior cervical fusion and discectomy, and lateral epicondylalgia. He has give...

💭 ” I guarantee you, there are a lot of patients out there who have a lateral shift and you are just missing it. ” - Jon Weinberg 👉🏻 Our guest is Jon Weinberg, PT, Dip. MDT. Jon earned his BSc from the Royal London School of Physiotherapy in 1994. After successfully attaining his Diploma in Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy in 2005, he entered the McKenzie Institute Faculty Training Program and...

💭 ” This study found about 90% of people`s inverse relationship to the mechanical stress was with the opposite movement. ” - Dr. Joseph R. Maccio 👉🏻 Our guest is Joseph R. Maccio DPT, dip. MDT. He is published in the application of MDT in the wrist, hip osteoarthritis, ankle, after failed anterior cervical fusion and discectomy, and lateral epicondylalgia. He has given a plat-form presentation...

💭 ” What if we challenge students, staff, clinicians in the PT profession around the corner and around the world to do an act of service on the same day, wherever they were. And share the moments had and connections made online and on social media, what became the #ptdos . ” - Dr. Efosa Guobadia 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Efosa L. Guobadia, PT, DPT. Efosa is the Founder of the integrated wellness comp...

💭 ” Know your audience and know how you can help them. Think of it from how can I serve you before you think of how can I make money.” - Chanda Jothen 👉🏻 Our guest is Chanda Jothen, PT. Chanda is a physical therapist who has taken her talents out of the clinic and online. She currently runs the website Pink Oatmeal, with a mission to make gross motor and fine motor skills fun. She lives in Minn...

💭” It does not matter what the circumstance is, it is how I think about the circumstance that will ultimately dictate the reality, the results that I create in my life. ” - TaVona Denise 👉🏻 Our guest is TaVona Denise, DPT. TaVona is A former physical therapist, master certified coach, and business mentor, TaVona is the creator of Launch Therapy™️, a process that helps coaches launch their group...

💭 ``The things that happened to us as children, affect our mental and physical health later. I realized that I could help people as much as I wanted to with manual therapy and exercises and yet they would never get better because their pain was from a different source. `` - Dr. Janet Delong 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Janet Delong PT, DPT, MHS, LSW, Cert MDT. Janet is a physical therapist, a licensed s...