What can a PT aide do in Florida? Set up modalities and take patients through exercises that was prescribed by PT/PTA? Thank you

Just want to hear thoughts from parents with a small baby; we dont have extended families/relatives who can help permanently and daycare is the last resort. so Im thinking of switching to a more flexible PT position while spouse works for a more stable, fixed full time position. How did you guys manage? Is home health really as flexible as advertised? Both of us need to work to pay bills.

Is anyone a current/former PT on track for PSLF in a non-clinical role? Just curious what that looks like for you. How long have you been at your company? Do you enjoy the role?

Why is there typically no pain above 120 degrees of elevation for people with painful arc syndrome? I get why they have pain in the painful arc, but what is happening in the shoulder above 120? No where seems to explain this. Thanks

I get arm pain when I make a specific arm movement and I’m struggling to find a term for the arm movement. I thought I'd describe the movement here, and maybe someone can give me the correct term. I am not looking for medical advice, just the right medical term to discuss with my doc. I want to be able to say “doctor my arm hurts when I do XXXX”.

Imagine my right arm hanging straight down my side, palm facing in

I bend my elbow forward at a 90 degree angle, forward. My palm is facing to the left and my fingers are facing straight out.

Now I raise my shoulder so that it lifts my arm. My arm forms a 90 degree angle with my side. My elbow is still at 90 degrees, my palm is now facing downward, and my fingers straight out. It’s like I am flapping my wing, with my elbow bent at 90 degrees.

thanks!

Hi everyone I just started to work as a PT aide and during treatment we are required to do about 5 minutes of manual on each patient. I see about 12 patients a day and I’m starting to get lingering hand pain at the end of my shifts. What can I do to manage this?

How does this affect foreign educated PTs both those still applying to apply and those who are already done with NYSED?

Hi everyone!

Recently feeling burnt out and realizing PT is just not for me. I want to move into the climate sector/sustainability. I’ve been working in community settings and want to take this next step (while maintaining my license and working per diem if needed)

My question, has anyone took a similar path? Did you need extra education or lean on your soft skills to get a position and learn on the job?

I still love what I do but can’t see this long term. Thanks in advance!

Started a position very recently at a Hospital-based outpatient clinic. It’s a lovely setup, 1:1 45-60 minute visits, can’t complain at all and am very new to the position. A federal job that I applied for at the same time that I initially was deemed ineligible for contacted me for direct hire about a week into this hospital-based OP job. They are prepared to extend me a tentative offer with a potential for starting salary that would be $8k to $14k more in the first year and about $20k more than the hospital-based job after the first year. The complicated part of this, is that the federal position is a 90 minute drive from where I live now and the current position is a 15 minute drive. My SO and I live together and she cannot relocate with me, but there’s potential to work 4x10s so theoretically I could split time between the town I’d be working in and where I live now with the three consecutive days off.

Current Pros of the federal position:

• the pay scale for the federal position is substantial compared (10-20% increase in pay) to what I’d see at my current job
• both would qualify for PSLF
• 4x10s allowing for three consecutive days off
• less insurance headaches
• much better vacation and paid holidays

Current Cons of the federal position:

• away from my SO 4/7 days of the week (they are supportive and wants me to consider the position)
• having to rent a room in the town I’d be working in that is slightly higher cost of living
• potentially more complex patients (SNF vs OP ortho)

Please help me mull this over below. Bonus points if you’ve worked as a Federal (VA) PT and can offer some insights. Thanks!

Do you ever fight the edits/addendums your OASIS reviewers make? I was looking at the edits they made today and I very much disagreed with their changes. One of them decided my admission patient was short of breath walking more than 20 feet or negotiating stairs (she wasn't) and another decided my patient with dementia was independent with medications at discharge (she was not).

Honesty is a very important value to me. I am very new to homecare.

Hi I was wondering if anyone had experience working for their local county. I was looking into a job that is OP through a hospital but it’s the county that is posting the job. Any advice is appreciated thanks.

Hello,

I am an ortho/pediatric physical therapist and have had several patients with tethered cord who are looking at possibly getting surgery - some are very young (10 days old) and some older - my question is, does anyone know of the efficacy of neural mobility techniques to help mitigate or possibly eliminate the need for surgery?

I have started to research a little but am only finding resources for the release surgery - I cannot find anything related to conservative management

Hello!

I’m a travel PT and have never used clinicient before. I am used to epic and like it. Is clinicient a good EMR?

Thanks!

Outpatient 12 v/d location

Anyone work or have worked as a PT for them and could provide some insight?

June this year I took on a leadership position. Prior to that it felt like no place even considered paying a PT even $40/hour. In my state every place was between 75-85/year as a maximum for hiring. The median was 86/year for my metro last I checked.

My team is now about 15 strong and I have PTs asking for 130k in the same region where when I was looking I could not find anywhere that even would go to 90-95.

But according to the BLS that is in the top 1% of pay for these regions.

It feels whack like there is two classes of PTs. Those making almost nothing and people making 180% of those positions.

While I'm establishing par, I'm trying to find data about where these 125-150k requests are coming from. This is Indiana/Illinois/kentucky/etc. Not California or NYC.

Hello, I have seen someone on Reddit mention that both FSBPT and The DC board provide study materials / a study guide for the jurisprudence examination. I have not yet found a guide online only a 19 page PDF of “DC municipal regulations for physical therapy”. Can anyone recommend a specific guide or material they used to effectively study for this test? I am moving from out of state.

Thank you :)

This was posted in a local therapy group I'm in on Facebook and I thought it was not only an interesting question, but maybe someone has seen some research I could pass along:

"Hi all! I have a student who has hit a block in therapy. Not a plateau, just a block where we have stopped progress. I know they have more skills and are capable of more, but motivation and participation are very limited. I am searching for any articles/evidence that support therapy breaks for kids that have been in therapy for an extended period of time (years). By therapy breaks I mean stopping therapy for a period of time and then resuming therapy. Thank you in advanced!"

Hi everyone!

I have been slowly building my caseload and getting up to about 17-20 visits a week and shortly making my way up to full time at 25 visits. I am having a hard time with deciding to document on site with the pt (our company allows it) or saving it all when I get home. I have been taking short quick notes on my phone at the end of what we did so I can refer back later and then I come home shower eat dinner etc and I don't feel like documenting so I push it off (notes aren't due until Monday morning). I do prefer to type notes on my laptop vs my phone. So it also makes it a bit of an issue bc I have to connect to internet on my lap top and get it to load and it takes alot of the onsite doc time almost like it's not worth it. I really would prefer not to document on my phone but it does seem to be the quickest and easiest on site. But I do like to sit and type out my notes on the laptop. Any advice or tips from my home health people out there would be greatly appreciated!

Just want to know your thoughts with Trump winning the election. I heard he wants to gut medicare/medicaid, etc. (pls correct me if im wrong). I work in acute care, SNF and home health so most of my patients rely on medicare. Will his plan have any effect in our industry? If so, how? Thanks!

Hi all!

Our clinic is pretty well established, however, we have gotten a little bit too slow for comfort over the past few months. One of the reasons is we think a lot of the family physicians are new to our area, and don't actually know we exist or what services we offer.

Do you think if we put together a gift basket for the local medical clinics/family physician offices with some treats, some referral slips and a brochure or poster about our services is helpful? Do you think we should schedule an appointment with the physician(s) or just drop the basket off at the front desk? How have you done this in the past? Or, what do you think would work best in terms of reaching out to local physicians?

Any and all advice is much appreciated! Thanks.

I want to report them to the local animal protection authority. Can I get in trouble for doing so?

Edit: I didn’t realise physiotherapists hated animals lol I don’t care about your shitty opinions about how you don’t give a shit about animals and all that matters is patients. I asked if I would get in trouble. I reported it. Suk a dikkkkk

Edit 2: I have so much less respect for the opinion of the physical therapy community. It’s a good feeling actually, I don’t ever need to post here again because I know I won’t receive anything of value. 🖕

Hello!

Hope to save future PT's from the toxic waste known as ATI Physical Therapy. I'm a current employee, who was just notified they will be ending their bi-weekly 401k contribution plan for an annual lump paid on December 31st. First off, that is a terrible economic sign for the future. secondly, terrible for your 401k as your weekly matches re not being invested and compounded and lets say ATI doesn't exist in December, or you leave, you get no investment match.. RUN AWAY!!

Just out of curiosity

In Spain we have a practitioner number, based on how many people have had a license in that region before, so if before you 13.725 PTs have gotten their license, youre PT N°13726. Then you can put that number and your name on the reports/papers that you want to have legal relevance or want to be taken serious (and actually doctors do take that seriously)

What about your country

So I've been out of a job caring for my mother on hospice. I'm ready to go back to work PRN- acute care in hospital. Will they expect me to work around a holiday even if I'm PRN? I want a week off to travel back to my home state to be with my family for Thanksgiving and also for Christmas. Previously I worked full time in Inpatient and they required working before or after a holiday🤷‍♀️ Is it same for PRN?

Any thoughts on what the election means for our profession? Feel like we’re screwed as insurances will have no oversight and Medicare will be gutted.

Any positive outlooks?

Is it whats it cracked out to be?

Do you make more or less than working outpatient or inpatient?

Any misconceptions?

Any benefits?

What are the work hours?

Feel free to add anything else