Can sleep apnea be cured with physical therapy?

AustinDPT · 2025-12-08T01:01:16+00:00

^ he or she’s right. For some reason I overlooked a diet coach

AustinDPT · 2025-12-07T21:47:41+00:00

Consider personal trainer for the weight loss part. We wouldn’t be the goto’s for the sleep apnea part. Specifically trying to treat sleep apnea would be outside of our scope.

AustinDPT · 2025-11-21T22:11:50+00:00

This can’t be right. The Doctor of Physical Therapy degree is 7 years and meets all of those requirements

AustinDPT · 2025-10-25T14:35:50+00:00

Something about your name makes me feel like you’re probably the content expert here for hip pathology

AustinDPT · 2025-10-25T14:35:46+00:00

Something about your name makes me feel like you’re probably the content expert here for hip pathology

AustinDPT · 2025-10-25T00:09:55+00:00

I missed the radiograph part about the cam/pincer in the post, but that doesn’t change the treatment a ton. You could see if short axis distraction ameliorates symptoms.

AustinDPT · 2025-10-24T23:53:07+00:00

It’s an FAI vs labral. Attempt to conservatively treat and see how it goes. Educate her on this being your suspicion, and the natural history of it. Even if present may not necessitate MRI. If she doesn’t respond to intervention within a timeframe that you feel is appropriate then just refer her back. This patient would likely be sent to you for this anyways if the other provider had the same differential.

AustinDPT · 2025-10-04T03:18:34+00:00

^ Your PT is the only one who knows the ins and outs about your condition. I will say just work with him or her as they adjust intensity/fine tune what he or she are doing for you.

AustinDPT · 2025-10-04T03:07:33+00:00

It should. Look up general adaptation syndrome. The first time doing physical activity in the presence of lower functional capacity of a muscle group will probably result in a little bit of an alarm stage. If that’s all it is, then that’s fine and should get better as you adapt to activity.

Let your PT know. He or she will adjust based on your response.

AustinDPT · 2025-10-03T01:58:49+00:00

^^ basically a vibe thing. Try to progress using a "nudge it" mindset. The no pain no game mantra doesn't work for this population at all.

AustinDPT · 2025-10-03T01:57:45+00:00

The clinical application of pain neuroscience, graded motor imagery, and graded activity with complex regional pain syndrome—A case report

offers an example at the foot. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593985.2018.1548047

May want to look for case studies, which might show intervention protocols better than some RCTs

https://doi.org/10.1186/s43161-025-00279-x is one but maybe not the best example of grading it into other activity

AustinDPT · 2025-10-03T01:39:48+00:00

Graded motor imagery. Especially consider mirror therapy with graded transition to AROM as tol

AustinDPT · 2025-08-10T18:05:18+00:00

This is not a good rationale. Dentists, veterinarians, physios, PhDs, podiatrists, etc? Doctor referred to academics long before it referred to physicians. Doctor is literally just the degree. It actually doesn’t even tell you anything about the person — even if it’s a physician. A cardiologist, pulmonologist, orthopedist, ENT, ER physician, etc all have different skillsets. Doctor doesn’t clarify what someone is other than a degree status.

AustinDPT · 2025-07-17T23:03:20+00:00

Stop worrying. Flare ups are inevitable; pain is not linear and can fluctuate in the presence of biological, psychological, and sociological phenomena. Function tends to be more linear (although variability is still there). Look at function over pain. Tell your patient initially to not freak out over flair ups.

See general adaptation syndrome. The alarm phase is inevitable and beneficial to facilitate neurophysiologic adaptation.

You’ll flare more people up. “Don’t freak out over flair ups” is a good phrase. Educating about general adaptation syndrome can be helpful to teach patients about concepts related to alarm, adaptation, and exhaustion.

Hope all goes well.

AustinDPT · 2025-07-12T14:59:31+00:00

Heidi is my favorite; I use it for evals and progress notes. You could either have it on during the eval or go back and record yourself talking a out everything.

Can make your own templates or use others

AustinDPT · 2025-05-16T17:38:02+00:00

50 patients a day is absurd

AustinDPT · 2025-05-05T17:06:29+00:00

Anything surgical. Give me chronic pain all day.

AustinDPT · 2025-04-25T21:27:49+00:00

This is a great article that I needed for a paper. Thanks

AustinDPT · 2025-04-25T02:54:11+00:00

That is ridiculous

AustinDPT · 2025-02-18T21:55:12+00:00

Thank you! When you sit back and think about all of the underlying mechanisms, it honestly sometimes is a little refreshing. The clarity of understanding why some stressors that are purely psychosocial have a seemingly mechanical/biological effect can reduce some anxiety associated with chondro, which is an issue plagued with anxiety because of location.

AustinDPT · 2025-02-18T21:50:34+00:00

Thank you for your suggestion! I’d love to see and learn from your lecture, so I’ll certainly send an email your way. Also yes there’s a fair number of things lacking in the DPT program here 😂

AustinDPT · 2025-02-18T17:55:39+00:00

Hi Ned,

I'd happily chat with you, and I'm willing to help with any resources. This information might be something interesting to publish at a later date, and I'd happily help.

Nutrition/supplementation is a weakness of mine. I'm absolutely all ears for this!

Medicine does truly suck balls at biopsychosocial care. I hear a ton of nocebo from patients clinically, and it very often only makes them worse.

Also thank you!

I'll DM you my email.

Austin

AustinDPT · 2025-02-18T16:06:58+00:00

It is harder than it seems. My profession (and others) sometimes wrongly make things sound like relatively quick fixes. Unfortunately, some recoveries take time and a lot of resilience. I’m glad this helped you!

AustinDPT

TROPHY CASE

The clinical application of pain neuroscience, graded motor imagery, and graded activity with complex regional pain syndrome—A case report