PT Health Event

[MJHUSKERS2]

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Hey,

I appreciate everyone who has taken the time to read this posting and please feel free to share any ideas creative or not from the top of your head or if you had prior experience doing something like this.

So our university has Health Event where all the health professions - PA, PHARM, OT, MED, NURSE, Exercise, ETC ETC - partipate in for the students and faculty. I some how got put in charge for the our table and I've seen what prior students have donein the past and wasn't really impressed - they do balance competitions and grip strength with the dyno...

I would like to display what PT really means, but I'm searching my options and reaching out to anyone for fresh ideas. What have you done? Screens? Education? Examinations? Fun activities?

I was atleast thinking about doing quick postural screens for people that come to our table to learn more abou the profession. I would love to do shoulder screens and everything, but we won't have a professor all the time and all though we're 3rd year students, we're still students and limited by law.

I'll be checking back frequently, any thoughts are welcomed 🙂 .

 

[jesspt]

Hey,

I appreciate everyone who has taken the time to read this posting and please feel free to share any ideas creative or not from the top of your head or if you had prior experience doing something like this.

So our university has Health Event where all the health professions - PA, PHARM, OT, MED, NURSE, Exercise, ETC ETC - partipate in for the students and faculty. I some how got put in charge for the our table and I've seen what prior students have donein the past and wasn't really impressed - they do balance competitions and grip strength with the dyno...

I would like to display what PT really means, but I'm searching my options and reaching out to anyone for fresh ideas. What have you done? Screens? Education? Examinations? Fun activities?

I was atleast thinking about doing quick postural screens for people that come to our table to learn more abou the profession. I would love to do shoulder screens and everything, but we won't have a professor all the time and all though we're 3rd year students, we're still students and limited by law.

I'll be checking back frequently, any thoughts are welcomed 🙂 .

What about a poster that might spur some talking points, such as one that addresses many of the common misconceptions the lay public has about PT:

• i.e., they think we are some strange amalgamation of massage therapist, personal traininer that runs our patients blindly though exercises and then slap ice and e-stim on them, or rub that ultrasound over them, etc.
• they think we are not point-of-contact providers
• they think of PT as a commodity, i.e. " I had PT for my back pain and it didn't work." as though PT is a single intervention rather than a profession. Usually when I inquire about the therapy these people have recieved, it sounds much like the the massage therapy personal trainer blend in the first stanza, not an evidence-informed treatment plan.

If you have to do something physically interactive, you could consider doing a portion of the Functional Movement Screen by Gray Cook.

I'd steer clear of a postural assesment - it just leads to them asking questions we do'nt have good answers to, like "If everyone has less than ideal posture, and posture is such a major cause of spinal pain how come everybody doesn't have spinal pain?" For full disclosure, I think the role posture plays in spinal pain is massively exagerated, to the point of "postural correction/education" being one of the Holy Grails of PT with virtually no good data to support its role in the care of patients with spinal pain.

 

[MJHUSKERS2]

Hey Jesse,

Thanks, those are good suggestions. I agree with you too about the misconceptions.

As for the FMS by Cook, don't you need a special certification to administer that test?

 

[jesspt]

Hey Jesse,

Thanks, those are good suggestions. I agree with you too about the misconceptions.

As for the FMS by Cook, don't you need a special certification to administer that test?

Why would you need a special certification to administer that? It's a test. Do you need a certification to do a Hawkins-Kennedy test?

 

[MJHUSKERS2]

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