Falls Prevention Awareness Week September 2021
Falls Prevention Awareness Day is celebrated on September 22nd. This is a great time to make older adults aware of their risk for a fall but also educate them that falls are preventable and provide them with methods to help prevent a fall.
Child Backpack Safety
According to the American Occupational Therapy Association, more than 79 million students in the United States carry a backpack and an estimated 55 percent of them are carrying a backpack that is too heavy, which equates to 43 million students that may strain muscles and joints and may cause back pain if they're too heavy or not used correctly. Share these guidelines to help your family use backpacks safely.
Improve Home Exercise Compliance
As therapists, we know the importance of our patients taking an active role in their therapy plan of care. This includes the performance of their prescribed home exercise program (HEP). We've compiled some strategies that when put into place may help improve your patient’s compliance with their HEP.
Highlights of the 2022 CMS Proposed Payment Rule
On July 13, 2021 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released their Proposed Payment Rule for Calendar Year 2022. We’ve taken the liberty of summarizing the key proposed changes that will directly affect outpatient rehab therapy services.
Time for a Telehealth Revisit
If your practice never initiated a telehealth program or you have started to phase it out, now may be the time to revisit this method of providing treatment.
OT PT ST What’s the difference?
The three major rehab therapy disciplines include Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy. We’ve compiled some information that may be helpful when you are explaining the differences and benefits of each type of therapy to your patients and your referral sources.
Ways to Improve Adoption of Your Patient Portal
Poor patient portal adoption can be linked to 3 general concepts: communication, education and promotion. Improvement in these areas can lead to improved adoption rates of your patient portal. When practices are able to successfully implement the use of a patient portal, it leads to many benefits.
The Benefits of Diversifying Your Practice
While most private practice outpatient clinics start off with a single discipline, it’s no coincidence that the largest practices in most metro areas almost always offer PT, OT and Speech and many offer behavioral and nutritional consultation as well. While many outpatient private practices that offer only one discipline are successful, we are exploring some reasons you may consider adding another discipline.
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