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How much do you really know about knee anatomy? Let's find out!

The Eccentron produced muscle activation almost four times higher than the other exercises for all muscle groups tested. With the Eccentron, participants achieved an average muscle activation of 60% of their maximum.

The new mandate from CMS prohibited the use of CPT codes 97530 and 97150 on the same day as an initial evaluation. This came as a major surprise to allied health providers and clinic owners, as well as the APTA and AOTA.

A cryosauna is a temperature-controlled enclosure with an open top. Picture a shoulder-high telephone booth without a roof. Before stepping inside, you usually put on special socks and gloves to prevent your feet and hands from getting too cold.

How Auburn Sports Medicine overcame budget hurdles to give their athletes better rehab and training with the Eccentron.

Imaging plays an essential role in treating soft-tissue injuries. The challenge is obtaining an accurate image without facing excessively high costs or expenses. By working with sonography, you can reduce the risks to a patient and improves the treatment process. What is sonography? Sonography is a medical practice using sound to create an image or…

Can you hand-le this quiz on upper extremity anatomy? Let's find out!

Healthcare is moving away from fee-for-service toward value-based care that relies on clinical outcomes. To align with these changes, CMS implemented a new reimbursement model for SNF facilities called the Patient-Driven Payment Model, or PDPM.

Why would a patient or referrer choose your clinic over your closest competitor? What’s your clinic’s competitive advantage, and how are you capitalizing on that? If you don’t know the answers to those questions, you now have a starting point to grow your clinic.

Regardless of the activity the individual is trying to return to, endurance is a prime consideration for tasks which require repeated movement at a submaximal level.  This is an important component of function since the majority of muscles must work continually during most activities. 

As Ben Goldacre writes in his enlightening book, Bad Science, Cochrane's long-respected analysis "has revealed that 'best practices' were sometimes murderously flawed, and simply by sifting methodologically through preexisting data, it has saved more lives than you could possibly imagine."

There are hundreds of ways to do planks. This article is not intended to give you yet another opinion on any of the variables.  However, the purpose is to remind us how to correctly address the needs and deficits of each of our clients.