During Occupational Therapy Month, several faculty members from the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences (USAHS), a leading graduate institution that emphasizes innovative health and rehabilitative sciences education, will share their research at the 2018 American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) Annual Conference & Expo in Salt Lake City from April 19-22. USAHS will be
By Rick Bahr, BS, NREMT, founder, president, and CEO of WMI Global, LLC, which provides risk management, safety, emergency/sports medical, and rescue services to clients around the world, including Nitro Circus, Red Bull, and Union Cycliste Internationale. He is a contributing faculty member in the Master of Health Science with a specialization in Athletic Training
An avid runner with a marathon personal best of 2:46 set in Boston, physical therapist Steve Vighetti, MPT, MTC, FAAOMPT, CSCS, is a faculty member who teaches Running Rehabilitation continuing education seminars and in the Doctor of Physical Therapy program. He also works with runners and other athletes at his practice in St. Augustine, Florida.
Like many runners, Steve Vighetti MPT, MTC, FAAOMPT, CSCS, was often too injured to run. His approach to the downtime was to attend running rehabilitation seminars. What he found was that they focused on identifying problems, not how to fix them. That got him thinking about how he would teach the topic. “Many running seminars
As awareness increases about dry needling as a treatment for myofascial and muscular pain, and more states include it in the scope of practice, physical therapists like graduate Eric Krell, PT, DPT, Cert DN, MTC, MSKUS Cert, are integrating it into their practice. Dr. Krell is bringing his experience with the technique to others through
The more complicated the physical therapy patient, the more rewarding the treatment strategy for Lisa Cecil, a 1999 Master of Physical Therapy graduate, who has always been drawn to the complex needs of acute care patients. “These are not your typical physical therapy patients,” says Cecil. “Many are in life or death situations.” Cecil works
Cornelius Henderson, a Flex Doctor of Physical Therapy student on the St. Augustine campus, has a simple approach: Get to know patients’ personalities and listen to their therapy goals. From there, make it happen. Here, Henderson shares how classes about neurodevelopmental treatment (NDT) gave him another clinical option to use during his field work at
After six weeks of traditional physical therapy, his knee was still swollen. The patient had undergone a knee replacement and followed his doctor’s instructions, but his range of motion was still limited. He was frustrated, anxious to get back to his everyday activities, including on the tennis court. Then he went to see Dr. Niki
Five-year-old Lily* waits patiently as Dr. Liz Ardolino buckles her into a harness, which is attached by straps to a ceiling-mounted track. As Ardolino guides her through the motions, the little girl stands and moves around the track. “Faster!” she shouts gleefully, flapping her arms. “I’m flying!” Lily was born with spina bifida, a birth
Countless hours of college baseball practice finally took their toll on Dr. Christian Bourgeois ’07 during a base-running drill. When he pushed off the bag at third, he felt a pop. He’d broken the small sesamoid bone in the ball of his foot. After being on two national championship teams, he was sidelined. “I didn’t
Rob Stanborough, PT, DPT, MHSc, MTC, CMTPT, FAAOMPT The 2016 Olympics have come and gone. Our Olympians pushed their bodies to the limit and brought home the gold. In doing so, many of these outstanding athletes relied on the help of physical therapists to perform their best on and off the field (or pool). As
With the tips of his water skis bobbing just above the water, the camper white-knuckled the rope-handle with one hand and gave the thumbs-up with the other. The counselor watched from the stern of the boat as the motor revved to life, pulling the rope from slack to tight and lifting the camper up on