PT Pro Talk

💭 “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...

💭 “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...