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 eleventh episode of season 3, Heidi Moyer, PT, DPT, GCS, CEEAA a Board-Certified Clinical Specialist in Geriatric Physical Therapy (GCS) and a Certified Exercise Expert in Aging Adults (CEEAA) joins us! Heidi is the Program director for Evidence In Motion’s Geriatric Certification Program currently. She has previous teaching experience with EIM, Illinois Physical Therapy Association, and for conferences such as National Student Conclave and Combined Sections Meeting. Heidi is an active APTA Geriatrics member, serving as a leader in multiple roles for APTA Geriatrics with the State Advocate Program and Balance and Falls Special Interest Group (BFSIG) as well as for the Illinois Physical Therapy Association, where they are the active chair of the IPTA Geriatric Special Interest Group (GeriSIG). We are so lucky to have her joining us at the Align conference this year!
Heidi’s Align Session Preview:
Heidi will be presenting at the conference during lab 6, “Move Well and OPTIMIZE Always,” alongside Teresa Schuemann, PT, DPT, ATC, CSCS, SCS & Jennifer Stone, PT, DPT, OCS, PHC. The lab is hands-on and interactive. Its goal is to look at the maximization optimization of management and assessment and screening over of athletes across the life span. They will be looking at how you can optimize the performance of athletes across the lifespan, starting at the screening process, then assessment and management.
Heidi will be talking about the importance of plyometrics in training older adults and particularly in athletes that are in a plyometrics sport. As well as looking at the senior fitness examination and how you can integrate that in your practice to give you a guidance to how to manage older adults that are athletes.
This lab will be presented twice on Friday, once in the morning, once in the afternoon and once on Sunday, in the morning.
Here are some of the highlights:
In this episode Heidi expands on her experience working in geriatric physical therapy and becoming a geriatric certified clinical specialist. Heidi does say that you do have to be a jack of all trades because you are not just studying one body system or one joint in the body when looking at our older adults. The geriatric population can be present anywhere. She says her favorite geriatric topic to look at is health promotion and wellness and trying to get people moving long after we discharge them. She is very interested in keeping the geriatric population active and healthy. She also is interested in the topic of ageism. Whether that is self-ageism or ageism reflected from someone else.
Heidi completed her Certified Exercise Expert for Aging Adults (CEEAA) through the geriatrics academy through the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). It consists of 3-weekend intensive that included, assessment, interventions, and lastly special populations. There was then a written exam and a practical exam. The whole focus was to provide hand-on skills to be able to get access to outcome measures and get facetime with experts in the field within APTA geriatrics to learn about some of these test and measures that are not taught in entry level DPT programs. Heidi says it was a great way to get clinical skills, to see changes in management with her patients, trace progress closely and more.
Heidi says medication reconciliation is within the scope for physical therapists to perform for patients and serves as a safety net to make sure the medications are doing what they are supposed to do. Heidi works hybrid home health currently and the medication reconciliation is her least favorite part.
Heidi expands on career negative habits she picked up on and has broken over the years of practicing in the clinic, the fall risk assessment and handling patient falls, using the available assessment tools and more!
Heidi’s Clinical Pearl for Physical Therapist working with Pharmacist–
“If you have an interest in older adults and working with the geriatric population jump on the continuing education train. While the entry level DPT curriculum is obviously good enough to get us pass the exam, it is not sufficient to be an excellent clinician when working with older adults. If geriatrics is your passion or if you are in a setting where you do not have a choice and you must see patients of Medicare age, get into some continuing education classes, and make yourself comfortable. We are dealing with human lives and livelihoods and quality of life. We do not want to take that lightly. Do not be afraid to learn more, you are going to have to if you want to work with older adults.”
Helpful research and training:
Geriatric Certification
Introduction to Geriatric Rehabilitation
Geriatric Cardiovascular & Pulmonary
Exercise Prescription in Geriatric Rehab
Regulatory, Legal, and Policy Issues in Geriatric Rehabilitation
Geriatric Related Neurological Conditions
Management of Geriatric Musculoskeletal Conditions
Integumentary Conditions
Certified Exercise Expert for Aging Adults – American Physical Therapy Association
High-Intensity Resistance and Impact Training Improves Bone Mineral Density and Physical Function in Postmenopausal Women With Osteopenia and Osteoporosis: The LIFTMOR Randomized Controlled Trial
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