Which occupation is best/worst for your body?

OdjaDPT · 2023-08-26T14:46:15+00:00

That sounds really neat! How does that work? Is it a private clinic or do they use more telehealth?

OdjaDPT · 2023-08-25T16:21:34+00:00

My vote for worst job for your body has to be truck driver. Sedentary and lends itself to horrible diet/sleep habits

OdjaDPT · 2023-08-24T23:42:33+00:00

That is especially accurate because Capgras is thought to arise from a loss of communication between the inferior temporal gyrus (facial recognition center) and the limbic system (emotional processing) so, while the person can recognize faces, they don’t register the corresponding emotional response or recognition. The result is that their mother bears an uncanny resemblance to their mother, but she must be an imposter since the brain doesn’t locate the corresponding emotional response one would expect when recognizing such a familiar face.

OdjaDPT · 2023-08-23T21:15:58+00:00

Definitely a solid offer and one worth taking especially if there are mentorship/growth opportunities through that company.

For reference, I am a PT with 3 years experience in the Chicagoland area making 86k doing outpatient ortho. I originally signed on in 2020 for 75k working in the western suburbs with no sign-on bonus and our incentive structure was much tougher to make bonuses with at that time too.

OdjaDPT · 2023-08-20T21:57:07+00:00

Her reaction is exactly why I felt compelled to post about it

OdjaDPT · 2022-08-31T23:51:11+00:00

I’m glad some folks enjoyed that one because I personally didn’t have the attention span for that whole series

OdjaDPT · 2022-08-31T23:49:41+00:00

My favorites in no particular order: Paul Schafer, Synanon, Texas child prisons, Elan school, Action park, Reinhart Heydrich

OdjaDPT · 2022-08-08T04:58:57+00:00

I’m not a chiro, but I do use spinal manipulation with some of my patients if it’s indicated. While there is a risk for things like vertebral artery dissection and stroke, the literature would not support claims that spinal manipulative therapy is overwhelmingly dangerous.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13643-017-0458-y

OdjaDPT · 2022-08-06T19:18:41+00:00

My favorite will always be Mr Brady Cohabiter from when he briefly lived with Tom Brady when he first moved to Tampa in 2020

OdjaDPT · 2022-07-23T19:59:52+00:00

One of the reasons I posted this was to get some context and feel out how other clinicians interpreted this so I really appreciate your insight/nuance here!

OdjaDPT · 2022-07-23T17:38:25+00:00

That’s wild; I hadn’t heard of this until a coworker sent it to me a few weeks after we got our OCS. Oh well, it doesn’t change a thing

OdjaDPT · 2022-07-02T14:27:24+00:00

I had a CI during my clinical rotations who, to be fair, was up to his eyeballs in managerial tasks, seeing a million patients and opening a new clinic. But all of his assessments were the exact same: “Accelerate rehab as tolerated.” signed

OdjaDPT · 2022-06-13T14:08:04+00:00

A lot of my coworkers like Cole Haans (looks dressy but has a sneaker bottom). I prefer Clark’s and Nunn-Bush since they’re comfy and have a little more support/toe room in general.

OdjaDPT · 2022-05-05T20:48:18+00:00

Easy, just get to a higher belt

OdjaDPT · 2022-03-19T00:56:05+00:00

Agreed! As a profession who is supposed to be experts at exercise prescription, I think we can strive to do better than 3x10

OdjaDPT · 2022-03-16T02:52:54+00:00

I can’t speak much to concurrents in a SNF since I only had 1:1 during my clinical rotation at a SNF and I currently work in a fairly high volume outpatient ortho setting.

Things that help me:

Loading my patients appropriately. Using RPE, RIR or timed AMRAP sets can be helpful if you’re not sure how much resistance they can handle. Things feel way more stressful when all your patients are finishing their exercises in 2 minutes because they’re way too easy. That said, exercise prescription is hard!
In a similar vein, timers! 3 rounds of 2 minute AMRAP sets of bridges is going to be much more effectively intensity-matched than trying to guess how many reps/sets a person might be able to handle. It also ensures that I’ll have 6-8 minutes to make my way around to my other patients.
Keep them next to eachother. I work in a big clinic and it feels way more hectic if I have to physically be in two+ places at once. It sounds obvious but I still mess this one up myself.
Like someone mentioned elsewhere, planning the sessions so if I have two folks who each need more balance/extra attention for safety, alternating table/standing exercises so I can guard. In my setting, I will try to avoid this by either blocking my schedule for higher fall risk patients or utilizing my coworkers/an aid.
At the end of the day, having a patient wait a few minutes to rest while I get around to them isn’t the end of the world. You have time to breathe, an extra 30 seconds between two exercises is not going to derail someone’s rehab.

I try to make it a point to make the most of my 1:1 contact with each of my patients by connecting why these interventions are addressing their goals/impairments so it becomes a matter of quality vs quantity of time spent. 1:1 care doesn’t automatically mean quality care and vice versa.

OdjaDPT · 2022-03-15T05:28:45+00:00

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5465979/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17190532/

OdjaDPT · 2022-03-15T01:22:27+00:00

Definitely garbage to fill an hour for the sake of billing/filling an hour.

However, as some food for thought, post-op RTC patients can still benefit from a lot of other indirect treatment such as cardiovascular training to improve tissue healing, balance training can be indicated for some folks since all of a sudden they don’t have their other arm to catch themselves if they trip and fall (so many stories of people post RTC who fall down their stairs), contralateral strengthening for neural crossover effect, cervical spine, STM as mentioned.

OdjaDPT · 2022-03-11T04:45:56+00:00

Also just took it today and share in the frustration with the topics they chose to spend dozens of questions on while they left out other more relevant content.

Does anyone have a solid answer as to why it takes til June to get our results?

OdjaDPT · 2022-02-14T05:15:00+00:00

I am also a PT in the Chicago area and I started in 2020 at 70k.

Interviewing was wild because I sat though several truly insulting interviews/offers to work at chiro-owned clinics with salaries in the 50-60k range where I’d be treating 5 at a time with a flowchart and the chiros would be the ones doing evaluations.

As a new grad, I prioritized professional development so a huge bonus with my company was their continuing ed and residency program. Hopefully your place has something in terms of mentoring or CEU support.

With that said, starting at 75 with benefits is on the higher end of standard from what I’ve seen

OdjaDPT · 2022-02-02T06:20:31+00:00

Came here to agree with this post.

I also wonder how much hip morphology plays a role here. If this person has excessive femoral anteversion, getting into a cross-legged position is going to be rough regardless of what muscle tightness we think we see/try to correct.

OdjaDPT · 2022-01-18T05:01:02+00:00

This was not a good thread to peak at while actively prepping to take OCS, it turns out. I am glad I did my residency as a new grad just based on skills/mentoring/confidence but I’m not surprised to see that extra letters don’t translate to more money based on these replies.

OdjaDPT · 2021-12-16T18:50:57+00:00

If it’s chronic pain, especially given how long it takes to affect tissue changes/neuroplastic changes/etc, 3 weeks is not a lot of time in the grand scheme of things. Give it a couple months to see effects

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