Enthusiastic about PT and life. Faculty Instructor for @NAIOMT, Fellow in @AAOMPT, Clinical Director @MVPT, Board Certified Orthopedics @APTAtweets
Brunswick, ME
Joined October 2012
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"By the time Taussig graduated from Hopkins, ... Some of her innovations in pediatric cardiology have been attributed to her ability to distinguish the rhythms of normal and damaged hearts by touch, rather than by sound."
Manual therapy is a form of listening to patients @naiomt
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My Exercise Principles:
Some > None
Done > Perfect
Fun > Boring
Consistency > Intensity
Simple > Complicated
What am I missing?
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13th in 2:30:34 at NYC. Thought we hit it just right in training. Maybe I made mistakes in the race but I needed to try. I went for it today and paid the price, but have no regrets. I’m proud, so tired and sore and my legs and heart are a little shattered. Love you NY, thank you!
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A middle aged male presented for evaluation of numbness & tingling. One year ago, he reported having left eye vision loss that lasted few 5 seconds. What is the clinical sign & what does it indicate? #MedEd #Medtwitter #Neurotwitter (Video by @bemooremd)
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🛑An absolutely wonderful,beautiful meanwhile easy demonstration of the correct examination of the "Sensory AND Motor" innervetion of the hand. Here showing you sensory and in the comment of this tweet motor innervation...
researchgate.net/figure/Cuta…
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A 70-year-old man presented with a 6-month history of dysphagia. Compression of the hypopharyx by large cervical osteophytes was seen in a videofluoroscopic swallowing study (shown in a video). nej.md/3g8ALfQ
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A young man came for evaluation of ankle pain after playing basketball. What is the test and likely diagnosis? @trauma_modern @grepmeded #Medtwitter
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Impact of audible pops associated
with spinal manipulation on perceived pain: a systematic review
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
“there is currently an absence of evidence that supports a relationship between the presence of an audible pop during the delivery of SMT & pain outcomes.”
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A nice example of subluxation of the ulnar nerve. Important to recognize this before incision, to make sure the nerve isn’t at risk.
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Individualised manual therapy plus guideline-based advice vs advice alone for people with clinical features of lumbar zygapophyseal joint pain: a randomised controlled trial - PubMed pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3031…
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Researchers who study Type 2 diabetes have reached a stark conclusion: There is no device or drug powerful enough to counter the effects of poverty, pollution, stress, a broken food system, cities that aren't walkable, and inequitable access to healthcare. nyti.ms/3SRkKZS
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Cholecystitis Masquerading as Cardiac Chest Pain: A Case Report ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
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Nice e.g of favourable natural history of lumbar radiculopathic symptoms.
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Above: Carpal & Guyon canal
Below: Anatomy of the carpal canal
Median nerve gives off palmar cutaneous branch before entering the canal(short arrow).Median n. then travels through the canal& gives off motor branch
(long arrow) indicates ulnar nerve as it enters the Guyon canal
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5) COVID denialism runs deep. UK 🇬🇧 also has been in deep denial despite all the hospitalizations.
3) I’m also old enough to have seen the #COVID denialism and minimizers become wrong TIME AND TIME again… each time dismissing restrictions and then each time claiming “nobody could have foreseen this” sudden hospitalization surge! UK 🇬🇧 hospitals for example… HT @TRyanGregory
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Whether a workout causes muscle damage or not affects whether muscle glycogen can easily be replenished afterwards. This means that overreaching blocks can lead to increasingly reduced levels of muscle glycogen.
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🔴One of the best anatomic illustrations of both sternoclavicular joints that I've ever seen👌The main function of the sternoclavicular joint is to coordinate the movements of upper limb with the core of the body.Thus allowing the upper limb to perform its full range of motio
