American Physical Therapy Association

disorder; psychotherapies, brain stimulation therapies and medicine. The first way to treat the patients is psychotherapies. Psychotherapies is a talking therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave. It is most commonly used to treat anxiety and depression. Psychotherapies cannot remove your problems, but it can help you deal with them in a more positive way. It is based on the concept that your thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and actions are…

According to the American Nurses Credentialing Center (n.d.), now that the consensus model is developed, it will allow the advanced practice nurse “to align the interrelationships among licensure, accreditation, certification, and education.”…

cgi?article=1605&context=stu_hon_theses Greg Austin, the author, wrote a doctoral dissertation about how the Affordable Care Act of 2010 will affect the field of Physical Therapy. The main focus of the dissertation is a study showing the effect of the reimbursement rate on the Physical Therapy field. He examines how not only Physical Therapists (PTs) will be impacted, but also the negative results due to the healthcare reform on PT clients. This includes the changes in treatment efficiency and…

Introduction of the Client Mark is a twenty-nine year old, Caucasian male. He is a single medical student who has just entered his first year in a surgical residency program. Mark has made this appointment of his own free will because he believes his medical residency is causing some difficulty in his life and wants to speak with a therapist. DSM-5 Diagnosis Social Anxiety Disorder F40.10 - with Specifier of Performance Anxiety (here after referred to as performance anxiety). The client…

Music therapy. A term that has grown so much over the past few decades. As a music therapist in training, when people find out what I’m studying, the common response is “wow, that sounds so interesting, what is it?” I then often struggle to find the words to describe such an amazing concept to people in such few words. The trouble is that “music therapy means different things to different people for myriad reasons” (Bruscia, 1998). The challenge in defining music therapy is that it is the…

injured soldiers from the war, so they could return to active military duty or be employed. In early 1918 on a trial basis, the program started at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC. There were a group of physiotherapy aides and occupational therapy aides who used arts and crafts to treat the mind and body. OTs worked with both orthopedic and psychiatric patients. The program was also implemented in France to help rehabilitate soldiers there. The approach proved to be beneficial to the Army,…

torticollis (CMT) C. Common theories of the causes of congenital muscular torticollis D. Conditions CMT can result in E. Epidemiology II. Classification A. Postural torticollis B. Muscular torticollis C. Sternocleidomastoid mass III. Treatments A. Physical Therapy B. Surgery C. Botulinum Injections (Botox) The sternocleidomastoid is a superficial muscle in the cervical region. It has two heads, the sternal head and the clavicular head. The sternal head’s inferior attachment is the…

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder with dissociative symptoms. I originally believed Jocelyn had Acute Stress Disorder, however symptoms typically last for at least 3 days and up to a month and her symptoms were still ongoing after 2 months (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).…

Introduction Holism defined by the American Holistic Nurses Association as a “state of harmony among body, mind, emotions and spirit within an ever-changing environment” (Dossey, 2012). In order to form a plan of care that will be effective for patients, the whole person must be identified and not only the diseases. The Holistic Nursing approach is used for better outcomes for the patients. The traditional nursing process looks at diseases in a very linear manner; where the main focus is the…

There are many pediatric impairments and disorders that are treatable within a physical therapist’s scope of practice, such as Cerebral Palsy or Down syndrome. However, what happens when a child is being treated, who also has a diagnosis that cannot be treated with physical therapy, like Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder? It is our job to research the diagnosis and learn as much as we can, in order to give the best possible care to the patient. Knowing about the pathophysiology, signs and…