Episode 1727 - The paradox of the fitness-forward clinician

Dr. Mark Gallant // #ClinicalTuesday // www.ptonice.com 

In today's episode of the PT on ICE Daily Show, Extremity Division division leader Mark Gallant

Take a listen to the episode or check out the full show notes on our blog at www.ptonice.com/blog.

If you're looking to learn more about our Extremity Management course or our online physical therapy courses, check our entire list of continuing education courses for physical therapy including our physical therapy certifications by checking out our website. Don't forget about all of our FREE eBooks, prebuilt workshops, free CEUs, and other physical therapy continuing education on our Resources tab.

EPISODE TRANSCRIPTION

INTRODUCTION Hey everybody, Alan here, Chief Operating Officer at ICE. Thanks for listening to the P-10 ICE Daily Show. Before we jump into today's episode, let's give a big shout out to our show sponsor, Jane. in online clinic management software and EMR. The Jane team understands that getting started with new software can be overwhelming, but they want you to know that you're not alone. To ensure the onboarding process goes smoothly, Jane offers free data imports, personalized calls to set up your account, and unlimited phone, email, and chat support. With a transparent monthly subscription, you'll never be locked into a contract with Jane. If you're interested in learning more about Jane or you want to book a personalized demo, head on over to jane.app.switch. And if you do decide to make the switch, don't forget to use our code ICEPT1MO at sign up to receive a one month free grace period on your new Jane account. MARK GALLANT We're live on YouTube, we're live on Instagram. This is the PT on ICE Daily Show. I am Dr. Mark Gallant coming at you here on Clinical Tuesday. What I wanna talk about today is the paradox of being a fitness-forward clinician. So when the Institute of Clinical Excellence first started back in 2012, so 12 years ago now, the physical therapy landscape was quite different at that time. As a profession, in orthopedics or outpatient orthopedics, what we really tended to focus on was very local tissue intervention. So we would have specific tests to indicate a local tissue or a region, and then we would apply either an exercise or a manual therapy stimulus to that very specific local tissue. And that was pretty prevalent in general throughout the profession. The other thing that was true in the physical therapy profession at that time was most of our referrals, or most of how we got patients, was through physician referrals. So either through a hospital system, an orthopedic surgeon. We were not getting nearly as many direct access folks. There were performance physical therapists, but there were far fewer folks doing that. And so because all of our folks were, most all of our folks were coming from the medical community, what we tended to see was people who were not as fit overall. So people who had a lot of medical comorbidities, they were metabolically unwell, just not as robust of a population. And that makes for a very interesting combination where you have people who are generally not very fit overall and you're going after very specific local tissues. Those things don't tend to work well together because If the overall human, the overall organism is unhealthy, it becomes very challenging to treat local and specific things. If cortisol's high, if inflammatory chemicals are high,