PT Inquest

There is a lot of talk amongst medical professionals and the media about sitting being the new smoking. Is that true? How would we compare that? Even if that is not EXACTLY true, what's the harm if it scares people into moving more? This article is...

A lot of people out there, including medical providers, believe that our understanding of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) or even concussions is complete and conclusive. As with many things, our understanding is very much just emerging....

Can psychosocial factors predict pain after rotator cuff surgery? Or could they be predictive of a poor outcome in general? Does this mean surgery shouldn't be done in these cases? Also, does hunger have an effect on the quality of a PT Inquest...

Sometimes it seems like ACL injury can be linked to all kinds of future problems. In this example there is a correlation to future myocardial infarction, although not statistically significant. We all know that showing a correlation doesn't mean...

This week we are discussing an editorial from Physical Therapy Journal. We get into how much we really enjoy editorials, especially from specific editors, but we also discuss the role of scientific journals. Many clinicians confuse the broad and...

We are back for another season of PT Inquest with more tendinopathy talk! There are a couple studies that have shown that high load, long duration isometrics reduce pain, but would short duration be just as effective as long as time under tension was...

Exercise and education is better than steroid injection for gluteal tendinopathy! Hooray for physical therapy! Or is it? What are the options and how great are they? We end this season with another example of an article and an intervention that we use...

Blow Flow Restriction (BFR) training is a topic that is often requested for us to cover, but the research has not been very impressive to us regarding rehab application. That said, we aim to please! (No we don't.) So in this episode, we are joined by ...

We love us some pain neuroscience and exercise for the treatment of chronic pain as a very plausible approach, but there is not very much research out there that truly tests it. This article compared that approach to a more "old style" approach to...

Finally a randomized controlled trial comparing physical therapy management to surgery for femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FAIS)!!! And what were the findings? Well, not impressive on either end. Of course this generates more questions than...