Dance PT Podcast

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: Recovering From Vacation Ever feel like you need a vacation from your vacation? This problem is all too real for PTs/PTAs and we ignore this over and over again. We go on a vacation and come back absolutely exhausted to them further exhaust ourselves in a life that is absolutely draining. There are some tricks to handling this better for yourself....

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: Reading Research Articles We don't have time. Time is fleeting for dance physical therapists and physical therapist assistants. I know this because I've spoken with many of you and have developed great friendships in this dance PT/PTA community. Feeling the lack of time makes it seem impossible to keep up with the research like we want to and no w...

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: Providing What Dancers Want How do you know what a dancer wants? You listen. That was a previous episode, but I wanted to bring that up again. That being said, when you listen, you know what the dancer wants and then you deliver it. Will you be able to sneak in injury prevention along the way? Absolutely! Injury prevention exercises also helps dan...

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: Protect Your Energy So many dance physical therapists and physical therapist assistants ignore this. Protecting your energy. This is absolutely vital in order to live your life happily. It's about the journey and not the destination. I've talked about this before! In this podcast episode, I discuss different ways to protect your energy and elimina...

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: People Remember How You Make Them Feel I remember this every time I have a conversation with someone. People remember how you make them feel. The emotions that you evoke within an individual has the most power in the decisions and choices they make in their lives. If you have a dancer patient who comes in and you make them feel like crap, they are...

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: Paid Ads I'm so excited about this podcast. The message is simple and very very important. I'm not going to spoil a darn thing. If you are someone who wants to do paid ads to get more dancers in the door, listen to this podcast first. 🎧 Tune in on Spotify, Soundcloud, and iTunes.

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: Movement For YOUR Brain This is for you, the dance PT or PTA, not the patient. We often don't take our own advice and it's time you start doing just that. When you are moving more, your brain works better and you are just happier overall. Don't worry about how little or how much you are doing. That's not the point. Doing anything matters. Make sur...

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: Listen to your patient This may sound like a basic concept, but in the world of physical therapy where not everyone is supportive of each other, the voices of other practitioners can sometimes dominate what we are taking in. Other people's opinions can get in the way of us hearing the most important opinion. That is our patients opinion. Their exp...

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: It's okay to change your mind 100% I've worked with dance petees and ptas who have changed their mind and they feel bad about it. There's nothing to feel guilty about when you discover a different route in your life that you now know will make you happier. If you are feeling confused on what you want in life because you think it's changing, listen...

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: Identifying true friends The best time to identify true friends is when you are not the popular person in the room. It's a quick process of elimination. Although it can be painful, I absolutely love the end results. Those people who still stand by you are your true friends. What does this have to do with dance PT? Just like a patient, if you don’t...

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: How to let go of anger I'm very guilty of holding grudges. It does not serve me at all and takes a lot of energy. I wanted to talk about this because we already have a lot of work and stress we have to deal with throughout our day as medical professionals. Wasting energy … we don't have time for that! Here are some strategies to help you release a...

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: How name-calling influences eating disorders Name calling is like a virus. It starts off small, but then starts to build within the person who received the insult. Gaining an awareness on how to not “name call” is a skill. You have to keep yourself open to feedback and fully listen to your dancer when they speak on things. You never know what part...

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: How are you really doing today? This may sound like the cheesiest title ever. I don't care. We often ask each other how we're doing today and don't really mean to get the actual answer. I'm honestly asking. How the heck are you actually doing today? Let's honor that, whether it's good or bad, to best move throughout the rest of your day. Life is n...

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: Handling your to-do list I've spoken with my students one-on-one on this before. Our to do list is always growing and never comes to a complete end. You must accept this first before you get into handling your to-do list. Because many PTs and PTAs are dealing with anxiety, I wanted to address our infamous to do lists. Let's reduce stress by better...

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: Getting patients in a new town Being the new kid in town is not easy. When you are moving to a new place, you are starting all over with relationships, and that includes professional as well as personal. Well you must be patient with your networking, you also have to be diligent with the connections you make. In this podcast, get some ideas on how...

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: Get the right friends You can have a bunch of friends, but having quality friends is what really makes the world of a difference. Don't worry about winning an imaginary popularity contest. For your happiest life, I highly recommend putting energy in finding the right friends for you in the musical theatre industry. Listen to see how you might bett...

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: For those feeling unmotivated right now Just listen to this podcast. It. Will. Help. 🎧 Tune in on Spotify, Soundcloud, and iTunes.

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: Finding the right timing instead of the right time “I don't have time.” “I have so much on my plate.” “Maybe sometime in the future.” We all have so many things on our plate and, therefore, it never feels like we ever have time for things. What if you looked at things differently? Instead of looking for the right time, play with your timing. How d...

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: Exercise for anxiety When you move, you feel better. This gets forgotten when a dancer is depressed and not feeling so great about themselves. I've had dancers who have left companies, gotten injured, didn’t get a role, or felt overworked/underappreciated. Each of them have gotten depressed and then, eventually, anxious about their career. Outside...

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: Every small step counts “Every little step I take, you will be there…” did I just age myself by quoting that song? Lol We all have a huge to-do list. Especially for any dance PTs or PTAs who have children. Your workload is overwhelming. We get stuck in this All or Nothing mentality. What if you just took a small step forward? What if you did one l...

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: Don't lose sight of what you want Things just don't come to you in life. You have to work for them. And when you work for them, it can often take time and a lot of rejection and disappointments and failures. With these discouraging experiences, we give up way too soon. Don't do that to yourself. Don't lose sight of what you want. 🎧 Tune in on Spo...

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: Don't judge a book by its cover Physical therapists do this to each other all the time. Many of you listening to this podcast know exactly what I'm talking about and how awful it feels. Because you know how it feels, do not do that to your dancers. I do not care about how they look, act, or their general energy overall. When in doubt, get to know...

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: Do you do exercises with your dancers? I imagine that if I said this in a room full of physical therapists, they would look to each other for reactions in order to best decide what they think of this. Stop looking around! Look to the dancer - what will motivate them more? Exercise adherence is the biggest block for full rehabilitation back to spor...

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: Digestion and anxiety These two go together. There is nothing separate about these two issues at all. When we are stressed, our digestion is off. When we are not digesting well, we get stressed. Many many dancers are not at peace with the food they eat. Their physical appearance becomes dominant and most important. This throws off their digestion...

NEW Dance PT Podcast Episode!!! 💃🏾 🩰🕺🏻 Title: Different ways to do screenings The topic of screenings is over done in dance Physical Therapy. There is so much more that needs to be done with dancers to get them back to their full function. That being said, there is not one way to eat a Reese's and the same goes for screenings. We do not have the data that securely backs one particular screeni...