Filed under:: Clinical

1. What Would Hippocrates Say?
(SLI/Articles)

Tags: [Thoughts, Mechanisms, Clinical Insights]  ...

2. Balance And Perception
(SLI/Articles)

Tags: [Clinical, Mentoring, Self Care]  ...

3. Do We Have The Evidence?
(SLI/Articles)

Tags: [Clinical, Education, Evidence-Based, Health Care]  ...

4. Life On Planet Earth - Part II
(SLI/Articles)

Tags: [Clinical, Injury, Recovery, Mechanisms, Rehabilitation]  ...

5. Life On Planet Earth - Part I
(SLI/Articles)

Tags: [Clinical, Mechanisms, Injury, Recovery, Rehabilitation]  ...

6. The Smart Life Project
(Updates/SLI News)

... global awareness of the root causes of the current economic, social, political, and clinical crisis that is our current system of health and health care. The Smart Life Project is a learning-based organization ...

7. BlogTalkRadio Episode On "Competent Self Care"
(Updates/CGH News)

... to help you, are their practice patterns, the "stuff" they use, actually clinically relevant or supported by any sort of good scientific evidence? As I always say, the plural of anecdote is not data ...

8. 10 x 10K: A Personal Orthopedic Challenge
(SLI/Articles)

... given an appropriate environment in which to do so. Fortunately, I took the time to challenge the norm for the benefit of my patients. Twenty-three years of clinical practice is a lot of time to observe ...

9. Five Important Questions For Your Health Care Provider
(SLI/Articles)

... your assessment and treatment approach? Clinical references? By practicing good consumer strategies with our own health, we force clinicians to be accountable for their treatments and their outcomes, ...

10. Back Pain – A Nation In Need Of Revolt
(SLI/Articles)

... the numbers are staggering as well - a cost of $2 billion per year. What the citizens of Backpainia rarely know is that there are many evidence-based clinical guidelines (“guide” lines, not “rules”) ...

11. The Future Of Health Care: Health Gurus Or Health Mentors?
(SLI/Articles)

... ourselves as mentors, not fixers. Until we actively address the perceptions of those in clinical practice – regarding their role with patients at its most elemental level – this issue will never change.  ...

12. Four Reasons To Reject Palpation-Based Models Of Care
(SLI/Articles)

... the line we’re faced with a treatment that may have little to no effect, or a treatment effect that is virtually random or highly susceptible to the placebo effect. It also assumes a quantum leap in clinical ...

13. The Rising Cost Of Health Care
(SLI/Articles)

... are utilizing non-evidence-based assessment and treatment strategies, and are not focusing on elements of competent self care in conjunction with clinical care provided in order to optimize the patient ...

14. A Quantum Leap Disguised As Clinical Reasoning
(SLI/Articles)

... thinking, and to do so logically and based on good, sound data. I don’t think that’s much of a quantum leap in thinking either. Sadly, this is not the clinical reality that patients experience – with ...

15. Disruptive Innovation In Physical Therapy: Part II
(SLI/Articles)

... of education, health care costs drop. So having people better educated in the process of their care makes good sense economically and culturally. Seven years ago, my clinical practice moved from an insurance-based ...

16. We Don’t Need No Stinking Evidence – Or Do We?
(SLI/Articles)

... the scientific method doesn’t eliminate what many call “the art of health care”. The clinician still has to have clinical reasoning skills (which are deeply rooted in the scientific method) and the ability ...

17. Allan provides a wonderful opportunity ...
(Updates/In Their Words)

Allan provides a wonderful opportunity for the DPT students at Texas State University-San Marcos to "think out of the box" when he presents a clinical decision making workshop. It is a practical workshop ...

18. Smart Life Manifesto
(SLI/SLI FAQ)

...  2. Promote and deliver effective strategies for competent self-care in both clinical and non-clinical environments. 3. Create a client-centered and educationally-based community that fosters personal ...

19. Three Important Consumer Issues In Physical Therapy And Health Care
(SLI/Articles)

... care for the common cold? Or an ankle sprain? And how much “specialized training” is available when the consumer goes to the Internet first and avoids using the clinical reasoning skills of ANY provider ...

20. MDT: A Powerful Tool With Athletes
(SLI/Articles)

... for mechanical disorders related to sustained positioning and/or repetitive mechanical loading. The reality is that most athletes that we see in a clinical environment are of the recreational variety. ...