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“Be More Resilient” Is Not Enough:
Our mental complexity influences our susceptibility to burnou
Dec 9, 20207 min read


To Combat Burnout, You Need to Consider More Than Workload
Simply telling someone to build resilience is a cop-out. Understanding perception and cognitive fallacies point to better solutions.
Dec 3, 20207 min read


What Is Missing From Schooling?
Mental models, reflective practice, curiosity, and uncertainty are necessary to succeed in our careers and life.
Nov 24, 20205 min read


How Do We Prevent Injuries?
Assessing return to sport and injury prevention models
Nov 10, 202014 min read


How Do You Decide If a Diet Is Healthy?
There is no such thing as a “best” diet.
Nov 4, 202017 min read


Can We Prevent Injuries?
Injury prevention is more complicated than we are commonly made to believe.
Oct 30, 202013 min read


How Much You Enjoy Exercise Matters
How a physical therapist can help you design a personalized exercise program for you
Oct 20, 20203 min read


Sleep While You Are Alive
Sleep deprivation influences nearly all measures of performance
Oct 18, 202010 min read


Why Some People are Wary of the Term “Exercise”?
Addressing misconceptions and issues regarding intensity, soreness, and pain
Oct 14, 20208 min read


Using Professional Baseball to Explain Cognitive Bias.
Using professional baseball to explain the influence of cognitive bias.
Oct 6, 20209 min read


Crucial Conversations Are Non-Optional
Crucial conversations are the foundation for addressing the issues. We must all be willing to challenge current beliefs.
Sep 27, 20204 min read


Regardless of Age, You Can Build Muscle
Whether someone is exercising for general health, beach season, or part of a PT program, age will not prevent them from building muscle.
Sep 27, 20203 min read


The Art of the Clinical Debate
Punching people in the face with facts doesn’t work, yet this is the common approach taken during clinical "debates."
Sep 23, 202010 min read


How Do We Handle Failure in Healthcare?
“Fail fast, fail often” doesn’t apply to healthcare, but there are strategies clinicians can use to benefit from failure.
Sep 16, 20208 min read


The Importance of Early Physical Therapy
When should you see someone for low back pain? This is a tricky question as it comes with the big “it depends” tag attached. Studies show...
Sep 3, 20204 min read


Going Beyond the Physical Benefits of Physical Therapy
PTs have been identified as professionals who can effectively deliver exercise to help patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Sep 2, 20206 min read


Why You Should Stop Trying To Specialize
“If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path, you will never wish to come back. It would be like cutting off your hands.”
—C. Munger
Sep 1, 202012 min read


Don’t Wait Until After Surgery to Seek Physical Therapy
Prehabilitation is often as important as rehabilitation Your surgery is scheduled, and you are eager to get it over with. You have been...
Aug 26, 20204 min read


Do Patients Have a Type?
Patient personality and values impact the type of healthcare they request and receive.
Aug 26, 20205 min read


Why Books are the Greatest Mentors
Our perspectives and learning are limited by the amount we read “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that...
Aug 20, 20206 min read
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