PT Pro Talk

💭 “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...

💭” We tend to think of the opioid crisis being an outpatient orthopedic-only issue but is something that stands all aspects of our practices and all aspects of our society.” - Dr. Steven Kinney 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Steve Kinney PT, DPT, OCS, CSCS, FiT. Dr. Kinney earned his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Columbia University. He completed extensive training in Neuro-Developmental Treatmen...

💭” If we don't reorient that seesaw our nervous system will continue to throw muscles into overdrive and make postural compensations in an effort to continue the SNS response.” - Beth Genday 👉🏻 Our guest is Beth Genday PT, MHS. Beth has been a practicing PT for 34 years.  Though she has practiced in a variety of settings, her area of focus is the effect of trauma and stress on pain and the...

💭” People supposedly screen the spine when they have an extremity patient, but it doesn't seem to be any data to tell people, is it a frequent thing? A rare thing? What is the prevalence like? ” - Richard Rosedale 👉🏻 Our guest is Richard Rosedale PT, Dip MDT. Richard graduated from Guy’s Hospital School of Physiotherapy (London, UK) in 1992. After emigrating to Canada, he completed his Dipl...

💭” A large number of family medicine docs appreciate that they don't have good training and they really don't know what they are doing in MSK and spine cases, and they are open to hearing things. ” - Dr. Ronald Donelson 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Ronald Donelson, MD, MS, Dip MDT. Dr. Donelson is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon who specialized in and researched diagnostics and non-operative spine...

💭” The more training you get, the better you are, the less money you make in the fee for service model. ” - Brent Cunning 👉🏻 Our guest is Brent Cunning, Advanced Practice PT, Cert. MDT. Brent is an advanced practice physical therapist with a special focus on low back pain diagnosis, treatment, and triage. He trained with orthopaedic spine surgeons, neurosurgeons, interventional radiologists, pa...

💭” The goal of the company was to take the MDT model and have a way to standardize clinicians and measure outcomes consistently to perform quality assurance in clinicians. ” - Dr. Scott W. Eiselt and Nick Belles 👉🏻 Our guests are Dr. Scott W. Eiselt PT, DPT, Dip. MDT and Nick Belles BSBS. Scott attended Marquette University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in biomedical science. He went on...

💭” First and foremost we have to come together as an industry, despite our specialties, to call us around a common message that is easily understood by the general public ” - Dr. Heidi Jannenga 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Heidi Jannenga, PT, DPT, ATC. Heidi is the co-founder and Chief Clinical Officer of WebPT , a nine-time Inc. 5000 honoree and the market-leading software solution for outpatient physi...

💭” PCPs decide for roughly 70% of where people start their MSK care. In over half of medical schools there is very little to no formal MSK training. ” - Dr. Mark Miller 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Mark Miller - Doctor of PT, Dip. MDT CCO. Miller graduated from the University of Toronto in 1987 and co-developed the McKenzie Institute International’s North American clinical residency program. Miller has...

💭” Becoming board certified means a lot for the community, patients and physicians, there is a certain level of prestige, you`ve met a very high standard . ” - Dr. Robert Medcalf 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Robert Medcalf PT, DPT, OCS, Dip. MDT. Robert is a 1986 honors graduate of Georgia State University with a BS in Physical Therapy. After advanced studies in New Zealand, he became a Diplomaed in Mec...