PT Elevated | Pharmacy Information for Physical Therapists | Veronica Riera-Gilley
Release Date: 08/09/2022
Treating Chronic Pain with Clinical Hypnosis| Ali Navidi
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EIM’s Dr. Ali Navidi is a licensed clinical psychologist and one of the founders of GI Psychology, a private practice focused on helping patients with GI disorders and chronic pain. He has been helping patients with GI disorders, chronic pain and complex medical issues for over ten years. He has comprehensive training in the use of clinical hypnosis and cognitive behavior therapy. Listen and learn more about clinical hypnosis and how he uses it to treat chronic pain. Helpful research and training: GI Psychology Website - Ad Info: If you want to keep learning beyond what you hear today,...
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Faculty Development | Angela MacCabe
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EIM’s Angela MacCabe is a physical therapist with over 33 years of experience. Through faculty development, she helps not only new faculty members transition but also clinicians transition from the clinic into academia. She developed the Faculty Certification in Academic Excellence, which is now available at Evidence In Motion. This online 6-month program takes anyone that is interested in academia through step by step increasing their knowledge and skills so that they are ready either to apply for a position or conquer the classroom. Listen to find out more! Helpful research and training: ...
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Override Health | Jennie Shulkin
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Jennie Shulkin is a lawyer, co-founder and CEO of Override Health, a multi-specialty chronic pain program. She was a division one athlete in college that suffered two traumatic brain injuries. Soon after she developed a complex chronic pain syndrome affecting multiple parts of her body. As best she could, Jennie continued living her life – pushing through Harvard Law School and building a career in law. All the while, she carried the burden of the agonizing, time-consuming, expensive, and both physically and emotionally painful journey of seeking pain relief. When each medication,...
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Is Residency Right for You? l Stephanie Pascoe
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EIM faculty Stephanie Pascoe talks about her current roles at EIM, her journey as a physical therapist and her current interest. She shares about her different experiences in residency programs, mentorship and gives more information about the Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Residency Program at EIM where she is the program director. Listen and learn more about residency programs and how one may be the right path for you. Helpful research and training: Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Residency Ad Info: Since you’re listening to this podcast, there’s a pretty good chance you’re the...
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Post-Professional Training Options | Mark Shepherd
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Mark Shepherd the director of the fellowship at Bellin College and faculty in the DPT program joins to discuss fellowship, research, lifestyle medicine and how to become an overall higher level practitioner. Listen and find out why Mark says fellowship changed his world when he started practicing and more. Helpful research and training: Ad Info: If you want to keep learning beyond what you hear today, EIM offers certifications that elevate your clinical decision making and take you to the next level of patient care and subject matter expertise. I encourage you to check out their website...
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Integrating Functional Dry Needling | Edo Zylstra
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EIM functional dry needling expert Edo Zylstra joins to share some of his expert FDN knowledge. He gives a history of how his FDN passion and expertise evolved, how FDN application and education has developed over the years, discusses integrating FDN as a clinician and more! Helpful research and training: Ad Info: If you want to keep learning beyond what you hear today, EIM offers certifications that elevate your clinical decision making and take you to the next level of patient care and subject matter expertise. I encourage you to check out their website and explore your different...
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Occupational Therapy and Chronic Pain | Megan Doyle
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EIM faculty Megan Doyle a practicing occupational therapist discusses occupational therapy’s role in chronic pain and how occupational therapists can be involved with patients to provide intricate care to help. She talks about when clinics can bring in an occupational therapist to help with a patient. Listen and find out more about occupational therapy and how it works together with physical therapy to help a patient. *Correction from Megan: I state in the interview that Lifestyle Redesign does not require additional training, but I have since confirmed that it actually does. I myself...
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Building Clinical Reasoning Skills | Zachary Walston
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Dr. Zachary Walston the director of quality and research and the orthopaedic residency coordinator at PT Solutions Physical Therapy discusses their orthopaedic residency program, what they do to build their clinicians clinical reasoning skills and how those things have evolved over time. Listen and find out how he has built his clinical reasoning skills and how PTs can build theirs. Helpful research and training: Ad Info: If you want to keep learning beyond what you hear today, EIM offers certifications that elevate your clinical decision making and take you to the next level of patient...
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Behavioral Health with Rehab Providers | A.J. Steele
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EIM faculty A.J. Steele a licensed psychologist discusses behavioral health and how both the physiological and social factors are impacting functioning clinicians. How does our behavior represent what we are thinking or feeling? How might the behavior be impacted by those things? Behavioral health is a piece of overall health and if looked at that way A.J. says it is easier to keep altogether instead of separated and look at as whole health. Listen to find out more about behavior health in the clinic. A.J.’s Clinical Pearl: Be patient with yourself in learning new things. Once we get a...
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Topics in The PT Profession Today | Tom Denninger
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EIM faculty Tom Denninger discusses topics that are top of mind for many physical therapists today like, patient choice, good physical therapy, burnout, and clinical decision making. Why are these topics relevant with PTs today? Listen and learn more. Helpful research and training: update Ad Info: Since you’re listening to this podcast, there’s a pretty good chance you’re the type of clinician who is always learning. One great way to learn more and earn CEUs is Evidence In Motion’s huge selection of courses. Choose from topics ranging from MSK management and pelvic health, to dry...
info_outlineWelcome back to a NEW season of PT Elevated where we are broadening our topics to include more researchers but still focusing on topics that you can use in your clinic every day. This season some of our speakers are guests who will be live in-person at the EIM Align Conference this August 26-28 in Dallas, Texas.
On our tenth episode of season 3, Veronica Riera-Gilley is a holistic pharmacist and owner of Prairie Fire Pharmacy Consulting and Functional Medicine Pharmacist with Pharm to Table. Her passion is to maximize health with minimal medication. She is Board-Certified Geriatric Pharmacist, Advanced Mind Body Medicine Practitioner, Certified Lifestyle Coach, and Adaptive Yoga Instructor who helps people embrace healthy living, aging, and dying.
In 2004 Veronica earned her Doctor of Pharmacy from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in 2004. Her journey into pharmacy began with the death of a close family friend. The family friend suffered a traumatic brain injury and was then put on a long list of medications. The side effects of the medication were not tolerable for her. She spoke to her physician and said she could not continue like this and was told that this was her new normal and to deal with it. She was given no guidance and continued the medication and shortly after she died of suicide. Veronica became a pharmacist because she wanted to be the healthcare professional that this family friend really needed, someone that could be the voice of reason and say that there are always other options, other ways to do things. That there are safer ways of using medications than others. Sometimes the answer is more medication and sometimes it is no medication at all. That is why Veronica is a pharmacist she wants to be that health care provider for patients who are sick and tired of being sick and tired and want to find a way outside of the pill box.
In this episode they expand on what holistic healthcare is and what being a holistic pharmacist is, medication, when it is necessary and when it isn’t, how clinicians can benefit from utilizing a pharmacist and more!
Here are some of the highlights:
Holistic healthcare looks at the whole person and we treat not just the symptoms but the root cause of the problem. Functional medicine is that framework to ask that question of why are you having this symptom? Conventional medicine has often prescribed in medication a pill for every ill. Functional medicine says why are you having this symptom and what is the root cause? How are we going to treat that? It is not always something that comes back to a nutrition deficiency or some other physiologic thing going on in the body. Sometimes it is a emotional or spiritual. The holistic approach to health care is looking at the whole person not only at their physiologic needs but their spiritual and emotional needs as well and giving credit to all of it.
When Veronica was in pharmacy school, she was taught that Lifestyle and nutrition is the core of health. When lifestyle and nutrition failed, they were told to use medication. She gets excited when a patient comes in with an ailment that requires them to be on a long-term medication. Veronica says we need to be having the deep prescribing conversations with our patients, this is the planed and supervised process of discontinuing or reducing dosages. She says we should be having these conversations with our patients because most of these medications are band aids and not cures. They are buying us time to make those lifestyle changes are bodies are asking us to make.
Poly pharmacy is using multiple medications at once. The greater the medications you use at once the greater the likelihood of having medication related harm or drug interactions. Veronica says she thinks It is important that we find ways for patients to reduce their medication burden for their long term safety. Food as Medicine and Functional Medicine gave her more tools in her toolbox to help her guide her patients on how to reduce her medicine needs and improve their health without reaching for more pills. Listen and learn how Veronica works with patients to reduce medications they are on.
Veronica’s Clinical Pearl for Physical Therapist working with Pharmacist–
“I want to give a shout out to all our physical therapists and occupational therapists. I think that you are some of the professionals with the best skills to help our patients with gaining the skills that they need to reduce their medication needs. Learning how to move their bodies more efficiently and how to improve their cardiac health and manage their pain are all skills that you have to offer our patients and help them navigate life with a lower medication burden. So thank you for having a different skillset to bring to our patients that they really need to be able to have maximum health with minimum medication.”
Helpful research and training:
EIM Lifestyle Nutrition Course
Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine Course
Lifestyle Medicine and Emotional Health
Certification in Lifestyle Medicine
Lifestyle Medicine Certificate: Real World Application with Jessica Baker
Take 5! Reasons to Add Lifestyle Medicine to Your Practice
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