"The Good Stuff" is an occasional series that highlights recent media coverage of physical therapy and APTA members, with an emphasis on stories of how individual PTs and PTAs are transforming health care and society every day. Enjoy!
That's a stretch: Rachel Tavel, PT, DPT, shares pointers on stretches to help prevent shin splints.(Men's Health)
Therapy after TBI: Jonathan Averdick, PT, DPT, explains why it's important to get into therapy soon after a brain injury. (Local12 News, Cincinnati)
Strengthening the floor: Heather Jeffcoat, PT, DPT, explores pelvic floor exercises that work. (Prevention)
COVID-19 and home health: Cindy Krafft, PT, and Monique Caruth, PT, DPT, discuss the impacts of the pandemic on home health services. (Home Health Care News)
Spinal words: Eric Robertson, PT, DPT, provides guidance on how to overcome back pain and avoid it in the future. (WebMD)
Physical therapy and the VA: Craig Rudikoff, PT, DPT, describes the evolution of physical therapy at the Veterans Administration. (U.S. Medicine)
Don't fall into winter: Eric Turner, PT, offers tips on avoiding falls in wintery conditions. (KCII radio, Washington, Iowa)
Addressing diastasis recti: Kate VanDamme, PT, DPT, and Sarah Jo Haag, PT, DPT, offer insights on diastasis recti. (Runner's World)
Rehab for cancer patients: Nicole Stout, PT, DPT, FAPTA, makes the case for including rehabilitation services in cancer patients' plans of care. (WVU Today)
Avoiding the (c)ouch when working from home: Andrew Starsky, PT, PhD, outlines tips for healthier work-from-home habits. (Wisconsin Public Radio)
Picking a personal trainer: Theresa Marko, PT, DPT, provides insight on the limits of a personal trainer's expertise. (The Washington Post)
When working from home isn't working: Nancy Durban, PT, DPT, describes how pandemic-related anxiety and poor work-from-home habits can launch a spiral of pain, inactivity, more pain, and more inactivity. (The Atlantic)
Entrepreneurship later in life: Nancy Foley, PT, DPT, tells her story about launching a private practice in her 50s after 25 years in the clinic. (Pittsburgh Gazette)
Surviving COVID, helping COVID research: James Richardson, PT, DPT, who was hospitalized with COVID-19, is back and helping fight the pandemic by providing plasma and volunteering as a research subject. (Oklahoma City Oklahoman)
Foaming a new habit: Natalie Sampson, PT, describes how daily foam rolling can benefit your body.(Livestrong.com)
Pro bono in West Virginia: Laura Stephens, PT, DPT, discusses the opening of Marshall University's first pro bono physical therapy clinic.(Huntingtonnews.net)
It's snow joke: Brittany Sibenaller, PT, DPT, offers tips on safe snow shoveling. (Owatonna, Minnesota People's Press)
Exercise to exorcise LBP: Linda Van Dillen, PT, PhD, FAPTA, discusses how low back pain can be addressed through exercise. (HealthDay)
Stretching — the truth: Cyndi Matsuoka PT, DPT; Ivan Hernandez, PT, DPT; and Jennifer Morgan, PT, DPT, MS, share perspectives on the benefits of regular stretching. (Self)
Quotable: “I could see the improvements. I was sitting at home and I couldn’t figure out why my back felt so weird, and then it dawned on me: It was because I wasn’t in pain anymore.” – Phoebe Skowronski, explaining how physical therapy helped her overcome pain from working at home during the pandemic. (Philadephia Inquirer)
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