by Summit Instructors | Aug 27, 2020 | Occupational Therapy
Written By: Kimberly Burns OTR/L, CLTMost of my life, I’ve been on a race against time to figure out how to stop what I saw coming through my parent’s afflictions. Along the way, I learned a lot about health and what happens when it starts off dysfunctional or...
by Summit Instructors | Aug 27, 2020 | Occupational Therapy
Written By: Nicole Scheiman, OTR/L, MHS, DrOT, CLT-LANA, CES, CKTP, CEES-Advanced, CSST, CDCSAccording to research published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute on April 2, 2020:Achieving the minimum amount of recommended exercise per week, which is 2.5...
by Summit Instructors | Aug 26, 2020 | COVID-19
Written By: Lisa Irvine MS, OTR/L, RYT200September is National Yoga Awareness Month. I am honored Summit asked me to write this blog for the month of September again this year. However, this year is different from any year. I decided that my purpose for this blog is...
by Summit Instructors | Aug 26, 2020 | Physical Therapy
Written By: Ryan Daywalt PT, MPTRehab. The name alone conjures up all sorts of different connotations for different people. Maybe you or a loved one has been affected by a debilitating disease, stroke, or heart attack? Or maybe the insidious effects of addiction has...
by Summit Instructors | Jul 15, 2020 | Physical Therapy
Written by: Timothy K. Dunn, PT, DPT, GCS, COS-C, CEEAA“There is no ‘I’ in team”. Perhaps you have encountered this cliché before. In the field of heath care, this statement could not be more true. The bottom line is that we can’t do it alone. In order to succeed in...
by Summit Instructors | Jun 26, 2020 | Physical Therapy
Written By: Joseph M. Villena, PT, MPT, OCS, CSCS, COMTThe vast majority of athletes who suffer an ACL injury will undergo surgical reconstruction. Expectations for rehab professionals are to utilize an evidence-based approach when determining appropriate exercises...
by Summit Instructors | Jun 18, 2020 | Physical Therapy
Written By: Matt Jeffs, DPT, PSM, CEAS Moving Beyond Stretch & FlexRecently, I visited an interesting article from the May 2017 edition of the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) Professional Safety magazine. There I found researchers Choi & Sathy...
by Summit Instructors | Jun 18, 2020 | Physical Therapy
Written by: Kurt Gray, PT, DPTAs I was thinking of a topic to write about for this blog post, the thought of patient safety immediately came to my mind.A short while ago, I received a call from a local attorney to give a deposition on a disturbing medical malpractice...
by Summit Instructors | Jun 18, 2020 | Physical Therapy
Written By: Matt Jeffs, DPT PSM CEAS Two Birds. One Stone.So how do we draw on our innate human patterns of cognition and behavior to mitigate these situations of stress and distraction? Evolutionary pressures may have predisposed us to a wandering mind. It’s...
by Summit Instructors | Jun 16, 2020 | Vlog Series
Presented By: Naseem Chatiwala, PT, MS, DPT, NCS In Part 3 of this 3-Part Vlog Series, Naseem Chatiwala discusses the importance of communication as a whole in the therapy environment. She also touches on different ways to communicate and work as a team in the...
