Challenges of Home Exercise Execution, Do You Really Have Sagittal Plane? and PT in 25 Years
Release Date: 09/07/2017
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info_outlineHere's what we talked about:
- What makes getting patients to do their home exercises challenging.
- Strategies I implement to increase adherence.
- How I determine when sagittal plane control is adequate.
- What I think PT will be like 25 years from now.